A serious accident on Interstate 95 in Prince George County, Virginia, early Sunday morning led to a miraculous outcome thanks to the coordinated efforts of local emergency responders and an extraordinary community mobilization. The crash occurred around 9:15 a.m. near the Route 623 exit when an SUV veered off the highway and overturned, leaving three people, including an infant, injured.
Upon arrival, first responders found the infant had been ejected from the vehicle, and due to the severity of the injuries, a medical helicopter was dispatched to airlift the child to a hospital. The driver and another passenger were also taken to a local medical center. Authorities reported that all three victims sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Remarkably, despite the terrifying circumstances, the infant’s injuries were minimal, and both the father and child were discharged from the hospital the same day.
What followed the accident was an inspiring wave of chessed that turned this traumatic event into a true “mi k’amcha ysiroel” moment of unity and kindness. Local askanim immediately sprang into action, rallying resources and support for the victims. Chaim Feldman from Columbia Hospital, Meyer Spitzer from Florida Hatzalah, Yedidya Blau from Chaveirim of Rockland, and Aron Slone from Norfolk, Virginia, drove two hours to provide food and essentials to the family.
Leading the efforts on the ground was Heshy Neiman from Cleveland, who coordinated help across state lines. He connected with Rabbi Mendy Heber of Chabad Williamsburg (Virginia), who in turn contacted Rabbi Mendy Weiss, a Chabad rabbi in Richmond. Rabbi Weiss spent seven hours at the hospital supporting the father and child, while Mrs. Nechama Kranz, wife of Rabbi Yossel Kranz, the head Chabad Shliach in Richmond, provided comfort and companionship to the mother during this challenging time.
After their release from the hospital, the family was welcomed into the Kranz home, where they were given a place to stay and recover. The Richmond Jewish community, including Rabbi Mendy Weiss and Rebbetzin Nechomi Kranz of Lubavitch, and Rabbi Dovid Asher and Rebbetzin Aliza Asher of the OU shul Keneseth Beth Israel, played a pivotal role in providing care and support to the family.
The family is expected to make a full recovery, and the coordinated response was as an extraordinary act of chesed and a tremendous kiddush hashem, showing the world the power of achdus in times of crisis and uncertainty.
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Thank you so much to all the Chevra that offered lots of help to the victims of this accident in Virginia.
May Hashem repay you and your families with lots and lots of good health.
who are like you, people of Israel, doing chesed, chesed and more chesed.
We don’t congratulate ourselves for being better than Goyim. Our job is to be Ohr Lagoyim, and as long as we can still say Mi Ke’amcho, or job is still far from done.
We also don’t differentiate whether the victims are Yidden or Goyim; they are all our fellow human beings whom we respect and expect them respect us as well.
Ader: Posting your customary tripe.
I suppose you skip Mincha every Shabbos.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the only mitzvah (holy grail) of the Reform/Secular Humanist religions; Tikun Olam!
Naturally one cares and feels for one’s close relatives and family more than others. We are all one family, nation etc.
If you feel closer to ainom Yehudim than to Yehudim that’s very telling.
Uncle Ben , you sound like an idiot…No offense
To Uncle Ben.
“… Naturally one cares and feels for one’s close relatives and family more than others …”
Right but he also cares for others. He also empathises, worries about others.
This is the only way we can beg Hkb”h to finally stop instigating this growing hatred from the Umos Ho’olom towards us.
Things are not looking good; Yatzileini Bal Horachamim.
Ader: “the only way” what is your mekor for this grandiose claim?
שמעתי מאחורי הפרגוד?
שו”ת מן השמים?
Thank you should be given first and foremost to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. And then you can say thank you to human efforts.
To Uncl Ben
There is such a thing as Middoh Kneged Middoh. If A would sincerely like B, Hkb”h would make that B should also like A.
.וחליפיהם אם הקב״ה רואה שיש שנאה.
That’s the story of our bitter history.
Ader:
That is perhaps the most presumptuous comment I have ever seen.
You are blaming millenia of hatred and persecution on our “hatred” for aino Yehudim??!! Absolutely mind boggling!
So both botei mikdash were destroyed, Beitar was slaughtered, all the massacres of the crusades, the Spanish inquisition, tach vetat, the holocaust and the tens of thousands killed in all of the wars and terror attacks in Israel etc. are all because we despised the sonei Yisroel??!! You’re thought process is clearly distorted by some foreign influence. I don’t believe that you have a direct pipeline to Bais Din shel Maalah.
To unc ben
No, the problem is our feelings towards anyone who happened to be born to a Non-Yiddeneh.
You threw in the words, Sonei Yisroel, and we are not talking about them.
To uncl ben:: Again, you mentioned soinei yirsroel. Of course you are allowed to despise them. הלא משנאיך ה אשנה.
The tragedy is that we don’t differentiate and we include all humans who do not have a Yiddishe mother. And if we ask Bochrum, why are you talking this way with all your קללות, they will answer, they all hate us. And they will say the wrong Pshat in עשיו שונה ליעקב, and they will continue hating.