{"id":28451,"date":"2024-09-18T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishaction.com\/?p=28451"},"modified":"2024-09-18T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T17:21:56","slug":"a-flash-of-chesed-lighting-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishaction.com\/religion\/faith\/a-flash-of-chesed-lighting-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flash of Chesed Lighting the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

The headlines about the Swissair tragedy have faded and other newspaper stories vie for our attention.\u00a0 Yet it is precisely at this point, as the horror of 229 people meeting a gruesome death slowly recedes from memory, that a new story emerges.\u00a0 It is one of genuine selflessness and outright valor, in a world where these values are too often viewed with skepticism. <\/span><\/p>\n

The nightmare began on the night of September 2, as a Geneva-bound plane from New York plummeted into the sea off the shores of Nova Scotia at a speed that left no possible chance of survivors.\u00a0 Within moments, the news had flashed round the world and within a few short hours dozens of stunned families were en route to Halifax to confirm what could barely be imagined.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the Orthodox Union headquarters in New York City, the news that one of its own Board of Governors members \u2013 Stanley Klein,<\/span> z\u201dl<\/span><\/i> \u2013 had been on board the fateful flight, tore through the ranks of officers and staff. Executive board member Rhoda Miller, whose husband, Joseph, was murdered in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 went to the Klein home in the wee hours of the morning to console the family struggling with the initial shock.\u00a0 Her son, Alan, flew to Halifax with OU Synagogue Services Director Rabbi Moshe Krupka to offer counsel and comfort to Jewish families waiting for word about their loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the most critical task fell to Executive Vice President Rabbi Raphael B. Butler.\u00a0 Through a chain of intermediaries and a series of delicate negotiations, he arranged for Dr. Jay Levinson, an expert in victim identification as well as the related halachic issues, to come to the site \u2013 ultimately to play a crucial role in the drama taking place off the coast of Canada.\u00a0 An American Orthodox Jew once employed by the CIA, Dr. Levinson is now living in Israel, where he has been in charge of a disaster victim identification unit of the Israel Police.\u00a0 International political hurdles and bureaucratic red tape were of little consequence to him, as he told Rabbi Butler:\u00a0 \u201cThis is a question of <\/span>mait mitzvah<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 I\u2019m coming.\u201d\u00a0 And come he did \u2013 not as an official from Israel, nor as part of any political entity \u2013 but as a pro bono consultant to the Orthodox Union, to help meet the religious needs of Jews involved in the tragedy.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the time Dr. Levinson arrived in Nova Scotia, he found that there were more Jews on the flight than had been counted originally on the basis of the kosher meal roster and family names.\u00a0 Over the course of the first days, the number rose from eight Jews to twenty-one.\u00a0 He found that Rabbi Krupka had already proven a sensitive liaison between the Jewish community and Canadian and Swissair authorities.\u00a0 Through numerous discussions with Rabbi Krupka, Nova Scotia Provincial Chief Medical Examiner Dr. John Butt had learned that retrieving and burying Jewish remains was only one of the religious issues:\u00a0 it was concern for the living, for the spouses of the presumed deceased to avoid the interminable status of <\/span>agunah<\/span><\/i>, that motivated this team of rabbis and laymen. He offered his complete cooperation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unassuming and personable, Dr. Levinson quickly earned the trust of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the local Atlantic Jewish Council, and the numerous specialists involved in the aftermath of the crash.\u00a0 Though initially granted only observer status, patience and professionalism ultimately won him a badge enabling him to go anywhere and access any records he needed.\u00a0 Operating at the juncture of <\/span>halachah<\/span><\/i> and science, Dr. Levinson suggested procedures to expedite the identification process while he sensitized pathologists, finger-print experts and dental specialists on preserving <\/span>kavod<\/span><\/i> hamait<\/span><\/i> during lab procedures.\u00a0 He was painfully aware that every moment counts, as freezing temperatures would soon render the sea impenetrable and the search would be terminated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anxious to bring Jewish remains to their <\/span>kever<\/span><\/i> Yisrael<\/span><\/i> and determined to prevent future <\/span>agunah <\/span><\/i>problems, Mr. Miller and Rabbis Butler and Krupka undertook the excruciating process of gathering detailed information on each and every Jewish passenger.\u00a0 Manning the phones at the \u201ccommand center\u201d over many long days and nights, they made one agonizing call after another:\u00a0 connecting with the families of the deceased in distant cities, encouraging them despite their crushing grief, urging them to speedily send anything that could help with identification \u2013 from descriptions of what their loved ones were wearing on the flight to fingerprints and medical records.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fighting fatigue and frustration, they also spent precious hours with bereaved families, helping them draw upon our tradition and the spiritual resources within them.\u00a0 Jews and non-Jews sought the comfort of their quiet, solid faith and deep empathy.\u00a0 The tireless activity and passionate concern of these Orthodox volunteers for their brethren of all denominations was noticed too, and the sense of <\/span>Kiddush<\/span><\/i> Hashem<\/span><\/i> was palpable.<\/span><\/p>\n

The constant buzz over the phone wires soon brought results.\u00a0 Packages of identification materials, meticulously assembled by bereaved families from all over the country, began to pour in; and as the restless ocean also began to yield bits of precious evidence, halachic questions came to the fore.\u00a0 Consulting with Dayan Aaron Dovid Dunner of London, Rabbi Moshe Tendler of Monsey, New York, Shlomo Adler,<\/span> chevrah kadisha<\/span><\/i> chairman of Manchester, England and scholars of Otzar Haposkim in Jerusalem, Dr. Levinson carefully catalogued all materials that might be of use.\u00a0 The halachic issues were many — involving nuances of burial, fine points of identification and proofs of death admissible in a <\/span>beit<\/span><\/i> din<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 A halachic concern was resolved when Dr. Butt was able to certify that anyone who was on the plane could never have survived the crash.\u00a0 For some, proof of boarding the plane or the finding of personalized belongings might have to be enough to allow <\/span>shivah<\/span><\/i> to commence.\u00a0 Complicated questions of <\/span>aveilut<\/span><\/i> were discussed with Rabbi Dovid Feinstein.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why did the Union take a lead role in the tragedy of Swissair 111?\u00a0 \u201cHow could we <\/span>not<\/span><\/i> be involved?\u201d responds OU President Dr. Mandell I. Ganchrow.\u00a0 \u201cOne of our own, truly beloved members and finest benefactors was on that flight.\u00a0 At first, it was out of concern for his widow and family that we offered our worldwide contacts to help.\u00a0 But once there, the opportunity to relieve the anguish of other Jews grew to monumental proportions.\u00a0 <\/span>Chaverim<\/span><\/i> kol<\/span><\/i> Yisrael<\/span><\/i> \u2013 all Jews are connected.\u00a0 We simply we had to respond.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Their mission ended, the weary foursome made their respective ways back to New York and Jerusalem.\u00a0 Their activities shifted back to the humdrum of daily living, yet their internal compasses still swung northward, reflecting on the days of interminable waiting, searching, grieving.\u00a0 Their memories will remain their own; but our Sages tell us that a <\/span>mitzvah<\/span><\/i> lishmah<\/span><\/i> breaks through unseen barriers erected between man and God and between one Jew and another.\u00a0 To be sure, the gratitude of families and the occasional praise of onlookers afforded moments of satisfaction to these modest volunteers; yet even they will never know what spiritual doors of <\/span>chesed<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>ahavat<\/span><\/i> Yisrael<\/span><\/i> were opened for us all through their singular acts.<\/span><\/p>\n



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