[UPDATES BELOW ORIGIONAL STORY] BORUCH DAYAN EMMES: Scroll down for complete story…. 3:00PM EST (Wednesday): Misaskim has contacted YWN, and are asking for the public’s assistance. They are looking for a 91 year-old male, who was last seen at approximately 8:15AM this morning in the Northern NJ area. He was driving a dark-green 1999 Ford Mercury, NY plate # ALT3961. He was supposed to arrive at his destination, but has not been seen, or heard from since.
Misaskim has contacted dozens of Police Departments, Hospitals and other agencies – but no one has information.
If you see this vehicle, or have any information which can assist in locating this person, please contact New Jersey Police at 201-547-5066.
UPDATE 1:00AM EST: (Thursday) At this time, hundreds of Hatzolah members from Flatbush, Boro Park, Williamsburg, Queens, Monsey, Staten Island, Passaic NJ, Union City NJ, Elizabeth NJ, Kiryas Yoel and other neighborhoods have joined the massive search – being coordinated by the Misaskim, and Hatzolah Mobile Command Centers.
Additionally, there are Chaveirim members from multiple areas, as well as Shomrim units from all neighborhoods.
The command center has been set up in Jersey City, NJ – and dozens of police officers from Jersey City PD in conjunction with the NJ State Police are working aggressively in the search. K-9 units are searching the sides and exits of Route 280 – and two choppers are scheduled to join the search first thing in the morning.
Please be Mispallel for Zev ben Miriam – who is the father of Radio Personality Nachum Segal. Rabbi Zev Segal was last seen at the WFMU radio studio at 8:15AM, where he was joining his son at the annual radio-station fundraiser.
UPDATE 9:24AM EST: (Thursday) Click HERE for photos of the amazing Kiddush Hashem overnight, as hundreds of volunteers gathered to assist in this massive ongoing search.
UPDATE 11:00AM EST: (Thursday) Senator Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) has established a special 24 hour hotline and is offering a reward in the disappearance of the 91-year-old father of Nachum Segal, WFMU radio host of the “JM in the AM” show. The lawmaker is offering a $2,500 reward for substantive information leading to the senior’s discovery. Anyone with information should call the special hotline number at 917-204-6415. Sen. Kruger is also urging the community to add to the reward offer. Anyone wishing to do so may call his office at (718) 743-8610.
UPDATE 12:41PM EST: (Thursday) At this time there are three choppers combing the areas in Northern NJ – including the NYPD, PAPD, and NJSP choppers. Central Hatzolah has just announced that they are requesting any available Hatzolah members to respond to Jersey City, NJ to assist in the search.
UPDATE 12:56PM EST: (Thursday) Misaskim and Boro Park Shomrim have just contacted YWN – and asked that although there are hundreds of ordinary civilians who would like to lend a hand in searching, they should please await for an official announcement from their organizations via YWN. This announcement should come in approximately the next two hours.
UPDATE 1:24PM EST: (Thursday) The police are currently on the scene of a confirmed car seen floating in the Hackensack River. Divers are currently enroute to investigate. If anything is confirmed it will be posted ASAP.
UPDATE 1:33PM EST: (Thursday) Divers are in the water attempting to gain access to the vehicle. SkyFox Chopper on the scene reports strong resemblance in vehicles.
UPDATE 1:45PM EST: (Thursday) We sadly report to you that the body of Rabbi Zev Segal has been retrieved from the vehicle found in the Hackensack River.
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he is the father of Well knowen Jewish Talk Show hoste, “Nachem Segal”
Any name for Tehillim?
Please note, this is “Rabbi” Zev Segal, formerly of Newark NJ, The Young Israel of Newark; I should know I davened there. Let’s all include him in our tefilos.
Wishes for Hatzlacha, this is really distressing.
on the 1010 wins website also
Jersey City Police Searching for Missing 91-Year-Old Man
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Jersey City authorities are asking the public for help in finding a 91-year-old man who went missing Wednesday morning.
Zev Segal of Manhattan was last seen around 8:15 a.m. as he left WFMU, a radio station in Jersey City where his son, Nachem Segal, is a host. Segal’s show “JM in the AM” just celebrated 25 years on the air.
He was wearing a gray suit with black pants and was driving a dark green Mercury Grand Marques with New York license plates ALT-3961.
Anyone with information on Segal’s disappearance should contact Jersey City police.
In the last paragraph above, it says Zev ben Miriam
Anything new? His great nephew is getting married tonight (in Bnei Braq) to a granddaughter of Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein and a greatgraddaughter of Rav Elyashiv, shlita.
The name for Tehillim is Zev ben Miriam
Mr. SEgal is actually Rabbi Zev Segal who served as Rav of the Young Israel of Newark. lets be mispallel for his safe return
R’ zev ben miriam
With the Zechus that Nachum brings Torah and jewish music to the radio.May Hashem answer all our tefillos and may this end in a speedy ending.
hatzoloha , chaverim and bikur cholim of lakewood are asking volunters to meet them at Shloimys Kosher World to coordinate search teams.
Just want to point out that he is also the father of Rabbi Nate Segal, a incredibly great human being and rav who is affiliated with Torah Umesorah. His d’var Torah on Friday night of Torah Umesorah’s convention is established as one of its main highlights. He does tremendous work for klal yisroel. One can only imagine the gadlus of this father to have produced such amazing sons as Nochum and Nate and all of his other children and grandchildren. May our tefillos pierce the heavens for the safe and healthy return of Zev ben Miriam.
they need to expand the search along route 80 – even into PA. I know of one elder that made of few wrong turns and ended up heading west.
Hatzlacho Rabba and may we here b’Soros Tovos
may hashem giude him home safely
and a tremendous yasher koach to all involved in searching
mi k’amchah yisroel
ברוך דיין האמת – שנשמע ונתבשר בשורות טובות
baruch dayan hemes
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Baruch Dayan HaEmes.
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Boruch Dayan Haemes. may he be a meilitz Yosher fo klal Yisroel
I think everyone should pick up a tehilim and say a few kapitlach right this minute. And dotn stop learning to keep checking updates… The zchus of staying in the Beis Medrash and learning every second is a step closer to a yeshua. How about from 2:30 p.m. unitl 3:30 p.m. we all make this our hour for shmiras halashon…. !
baruch dayan haemes such sad news may his neshama go straight to gan-eden….
and to all the wonderful hatzalah chaverim misaskim members who spent their time searching u made a gevaldige kidush hashem keep doing your chashuva work and making hashem and am yisrael proud!!
Baruch Dayan Ha Emes!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BD”E
but I dont understand- this is a well travelled area especially during the mornings when he was going there. No one saw anything?
baruch dayen emes
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Boruch Dayan Emes.
levaya is tomorrow at the bialystoker shul on the Lower East Side at 11 a.m. F train to Delancey Street, take M14 to Pitt Street (Emigrant Bank). Walk one block to Bialystoker Place (CVS is on tthe corner). Street parking is difficult but possible. (try Delancey under bridge or meters on Grand) There is a parking lot on Delancey & Columbia (one block over), other lots on Broome but further down, near the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge.
Therw was no road block? Nothing to prevent this. Ales is fun himmel bashert. At least he had the bracha of enough health to be able to be indepndent to this age. Baruch Dayin Haemes
Levaya information:
11 a.m. Friday morning Bialystoker Synagogue 7-11 Willett Street/Bialystoker Place New York, NY 10002. Accessible by F train (Delancey Street stop) Take M14 but to Pitt Street. (Emigrant Savings Bank is on the corner) Walk one block to Willet Street (CVS is on the corner) Shul is between Grand and Delancey on Bialystoker Place/Willet Street.
DOES ANYONE KNOW LEVAYA INFO
to #25, obviously not. And even if someone did, does it matter now?
Everyone should make a contribution in memory of Rav Zev to the JM in the AM marathon.
http://www.jmintheam.org
The levaya of R’ Zev Segal a”h, father of yblc”t R’ Chaim Nosson, R’ Nachum, R’ Yigal and R’ Moshe, as well as 2 daughters living in Eretz Yisroel will be tomorrow morning at 11:00 AM at the Bialystoker Shul (11 Willett Ave.) on the Lower East Side. The kevura will be in Eretz Yisroel on Sunday. Besuros Tovos.
Boruch Dayan Haemes. may he be a meilitz Yosher fo klal Yisroel
How could happen that . Is therer no fence some thing to block that such a think should not happen?
baruch dayan haemes
may the segal family have a nechamah.
27, that is true, and yet I would say there is room for individual, well monitored exceptions. We really don’t know. All we know is that for this was clearly the rav’s time, but that it had to happen in a way that would give the family this agmas nefesh. It should be a kapara, and they should get immense comfort from the quality of life they enabled their father to have, and the immense nachas they gave him. To see doros who are shomer shabbos is not something anyone of a certain age took for granted. And in this day and age, we can’t either. We can only daven and try to learn from the successes of those of that dor to, if we are lucky, see those same kinds of results.
Perhaps Rabbi Segal was giving over a message to all of us in his jimintheam interview celebrating the station’s 25th anniversary. He said the following words to his son: “Twenty-five in hebrew is Chof Heh….meaning Kavod Hashem…you are spreading the honor and glory of the Almighty. Your program has no specfic agenda except the service of the Almighty, the people of Israel and the Land of Israel. May you go from chayil el chayil and continue your sacred work.”
WE must all have no specific agenda except serving Hashem and doing what we can for Klal Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael. WE must always be conscious to make a Kiddush Hashem in our thoughts, our words, and our actions.
Let us really really try to accomplish this, l’zecher nishmas Rabbi Zev Segal, a”h.
May his memory be for a blessing and may the whole Segal family find comfort in knowing how well he lived, how he was revered and how he lived his life for Hashem and provided the solid foundation for generations to follow.
Baruch Dayan Emes