By COLlive reporter
Family, friends and neighbors of Rabbi Yosef Raksin HY”D will be gathering this week to mark 30 days since he was gunned down while walking to synagogue on Shabbos morning.
The event will be held on Monday, September 8, at 7:30pm at Oihel Nosson Shul at 580 Crown Street in Crown Heights, the Brooklyn Jewish neighborhood where he lived with his family.
His children will be reciting the mourners’ Kaddish over his killing, while still trying to comprehend how his peaceful visit to his daughter and grandchildren ended so brutally.
Verses of Tehillim will be said and the Mishnayos which was learned in memory of Yosef Yitzchok ben Shraga Feivel will be concluded during the evening, as customary.
Addressing the crowd will be Rabbi Nissen Mangel, a Holocaust survivor and Rabbi of Ksav Sofer Shul in Crown Heights, and renowned speaker Rabbi YY Jacobson, who both knew Raksin.
But the family wants it to be more than a memorial.
The Raksins told COLlive.com that they are inviting the wider public to attend the event and use the opportunity to send a strong message to the Miami-Dade Police and authorities, as an arrest has still not been made.
“The feeling we are getting is that they are just talking us down and hoping that the hype will just die down,” says his son-in-law, Rabbi Leib Ezagui, Youth Director of the Jewish Camp of the Arts in Florida.
Ezagui said: “We expect the police to get their act together and pull this case together. If they really are working day and night on the case they should be more transparent and let us know what the situation is.”
“The Miami police keep saying they are working on it and they can’t let out any other information so not to ruin the investigation,” he said, noting that they’ve hardly been in touch with the family.
New York City Council member Laurie Cumbo, who represents Crown Heights, has written to Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez asking to make progress in the case.
“On behalf of the Crown Heights community, the Jewish Caucus, and the Raksin family, we urge you and the Miami-Dade Police Department to continue to prioritize this investigation and to utilize all available resources to resolve this case,” she wrote.
“Individuals who engage in such acts must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Cumbo added in the August 19, 2014 letter.
Have the Raksin family hired a private investigator?
I can only imagine how fast they would have found these animals if the murder victim would have been a Sheriff’s deputy, police officer or a federal agent!!! It just goes to show you that albeit we, the people, are the ones who pay the salaries of these inept goons, it ultimately boils down to the fact that we can rely on no one other than ourselves and Hashem for both protection and justice! The bottom line is, give extra Tzedakah, check your Mezuzos, get a good concealable hand gun, learn how to use it well (and if you live… Read more »
So far #19 makes the most sense i love how everyone has an opinion /agenda here.
It took time to solve, but it happened. Better to have a solid case than a hasty arrest that is possible to be a mistake.
there isn’t a Devorie on every block in CH….
BUT the ENTIRE Jewish NMB should get (their act together and involve the) Feds to open a case ….by making it loud and clear that they believe it was a (at least partial) hate crime… and after Furgeson they will have no choice but to get involved as not to be discriminatory
Call the miami herald sun sentinel 850 wftl 610 wiod the Tv stations there needs to be a tremendous uproar. How do we as Jews Chassidim allow a brother to be murdered and we can still sleep in peace? A murderer of a Jew in on the loose walking around freely and yosel ligt in drerd??????? Wake up yidden.
this could be anyones parent! we need to do something loud and clear so press, people and communities take notice and make it go viral. this is unacceptable to take it like this quietly. this is everyones problem! speak up and get others in places that count. Call Devori Halberstam and get connections as this can be terrorism as well. who knows?
קול דמי אחיך צועקים מן האדמה. Wake up yidden . אם זה לא אני מי יהיה ואם לא עכשיו אימתי
We don’t want to be like the black community! look what they r doing !! rioting , stealing killing etc horrible! but they will end up getting big money! thats what Al Sharpton is all about!
Please attend a memorial service / shloshim event to commemorate Rabbi Yosef Raksin who was murdered while walking to shul/synagogue on shabbat morning. Please see this link for additional information https://m.facebook.com/RabbiRaksin all are urged to attend
last year an elderly jewish couple was murdered in miami they haven’t found NUTIN YET!!!!
It’s been almost 30 days since the murder of R’ Yosef Yitzchok Raksin. With no arrests thus far, it’s time for the Governer to get involved as It seems to me that the N. Miami Police dept is failing in their investigation & hoping that the pressure of finding these murderers will ease.
and i will I”H be there!
To post # 4 yr so right , like it says ” he who is smart is one who learns from others ” And it does not say only from yidden Black America Got were they are today Only because the show the world that they will not Take abuse any more . We Jews Have to learn not to turn the other cheek . We most be heard . To gather in front of the police sta. and screem like we mean it Both here by 71 pct For the crimes that going on here in crown heights And… Read more »
What makes you so sure? You work for the NMB Police? If the police themselves say nothing and give no indication of being any closer what makes you any smarter?
Public protests is the only way to get the fire going under these guys.
I’m sure rabbi mangel will be able to help us get over this hard time. Iy”h verysoon the police will crack the case of this horrible murder of such a great man
Leible good for u. Don’t let down. What a chutzpa. Where is Rabbi Marlow and the community there?
They send in undercover cops to gain the confidence of an insider who knows who did the deed. I believe they will be able to find out eventually. It’s understandable wanting swift justice however. With the state of threat on America, they may be just as concerned. May Hashem give the family strength and resolve.
To the shloshim call a press conference tv radio 1010 880 etc. on this horendous tragedy and the inept unacceptable work of the miami dade police ….tell the press a special statement will be made by the family etc.
Time to ramp it up a couple of notches here in NY and in NMB. Get the community protesting on 163rd on a Monday afternoon blocking traffic.
Is Jewish blood cheap? Cheaper than the fellow killed in Ferguson!
Use facebook, twitter or whatever you can to publicise the lack of cooperation or effort of police until they take notice.
make calls to all communities as it could be anyones parent or grandparent.
someone in the family needs to go on a campaign like Devorah Halberstam whose son was also murdered. The police were saying it was road rage, and she found out it was an Arab who was going for the Rebbes van. She changed the gun laws in NY and is still working on terrorism. After 9/11 all the govt doors were opened but before they were not even listening. She worked hard to solve the mystery.