3 month old baby murdered by terrorists.

[Joe Cocker]

This past Shabbos we sat with a young Israeli who had been in the army during the most recent Lebanon War. He seemed like a young businessman on a trip, but then he started to speak.

He was part of the bomb squad that goes in advance of the regular IDF and tanks. They sweep the area for bombs, land mines and have learned to dismantle them. He sat and told us many horrifying stories for an hour ... we could tell that this was just a small amount that he had the strength to tell.

He told about one group that went into an abandoned house in a city in Lebanon. They heard a baby crying, went into the room to find and pick up the baby. As the IDF soldier picked up the crying baby, he and almost all his team members were killed, blown up by a bomb attached to the baby's body.

I pass this on with pain in my heart that has no words.

We call those who died simply because they were Jews and others sought to kill them Kedoshim - Holy Ones. Why should there be more like the Fogel family who were murdered on this past Shabbos?

In their home on Shabbos ... a 3 month old baby murdered by terrorists.

Are we so callous to human life by the constant terrorism that we are just adding this to the numbers of Jews and non Jews already killed by militant terrorists in the Palestinian and Muslim cause?

Let's all do what we can to help Eretz Yisroel, the Holy Land, to have strength, security and real peace - not negotiating away our homeland.

We need our Jewish pride to walk in front of us. We must stand up for ourselves and make the choices that created our people through the heroic actions of the Maccabees, the Mordechais and Esthers of our history.

Honor their memory through a mitzva - tzedaka to www.ctvp.org Chabad's Victims of Terror Project or a charity of your choice.

Honor their memory through adding any mitzva that you will do as a remembrance of these innocent lives that were taken so that they will not have died in vain.

Thank you for listening,

Hinda Langer

Director
Shalom School,
862 28th Avenue
S. Francisco, California 94121