'Light Shabbat candles in Fogels memory' | The Jewish Chronicle
by Jessica Elgot
A Chabad trouble from Birmingham has begun a worldwide movement for Jewish women to get Shabbat candles in the thinking of next of kin killed Fogel, Itamar.
Esther Cohen, co-director of Chabad of the West Midlands and governor of Jewish studies David Foremost indoctrinate a crowned head, started a Facebook when it happened to ask the people of sunlight a candle in memory of Ruth and Rabbi Udi Fogel, and three of their children, Yoav, 11, Elad, 4 and Hadas, 3 months, who were killed a week ago in the West Bank in their bailiwick.
More than 20,000 people from all over the set have signed up for his drive.
Mrs. Cohen said: "I never dreamed I would get so big. The plan was to raise awareness of women together. Every mitzvah counts. We use our power as women to do something positive, a candlelight vigil at the seventh heaven piece to the darkness. What the fashion superiority to do that in view of the Sabbath candles? "
He said he hoped his offer touched Tamar Fogel, the surviving daughter of the couple killed 12 years, who has vowed to "be an old woman" for his two surviving brothers....
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