The victim of a terrifying burglary has spoken to the Jewish Chronicle of her ordeal in which she was tied to a chair at her elderly parents’ home while the intruder stole valuables.
Shoshana Cofnas had been staying at the apartment, in Higher Broughton, North Manchester, last Shabbos, when she came face to face with the burglar in her parents’ bedroom, at 11 o’clock in the morning.
“He was hiding behind the door,” she said. “I was very shocked. He told me to be quiet and sit on the chair. He then tied my legs to the chair.”
“I didn’t know if he had a knife or a weapon and I didn’t know what his next move would be if he didn’t find any money. So I told him there were silver candlesticks in the lounge and to take those.”
The man left the room, and, a few minutes later, she managed to untie herself and struggle free.
Ms Cofnas’s father, 95-year-old Rabbi Yerachmiel Cofnas, a one-time rabbi at Birmingham New Synagogue, aged 95, said: “The door was left open and that’s how the burglar came in.”
The burglar took two pairs of Shabbos candlesticks. One pair were large silver ones which had belonged to his wife’s grandparents.
No arrest was reported to have been made.
(Source: The Jewish Chronicle)
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it looks like they need to open a shomrim org or some sort of civil patrol
Hello??? The only “Shomrim” needed is to lock your doors!!!
number 2 wat do u think they left the door wide open they obviously broke in
#3 mirocks–Ms Cofnas’s father, 95-year-old Rabbi Yerachmiel Cofnas, a one-time rabbi at Birmingham New Synagogue, aged 95, said: “The door was left open and that’s how the burglar came in.”–thats why #2 said to lock your doors
Rabbi Cofnas shlitoh, is one of the last remaining Talmidim of the Chofetz Chaim. He was in shul and his wife was looked after by a carer. Their door is usually locked and must have been left open by mistake. Manchester has a tremendous shomrim organisation but they can’t be everywhere all the time