A few minutes later, this all took a very personal turn for me
The morning of Erev Shabbos Chanukah began uneventfully for me, as I’m sure it did for most of us. I awoke and prepared to attend the k’vasikin minyan in shul. After davening, I went to my office to begin my busy Erev Shabbos.
Then I received the sad news from Eretz Yisrael that, once again, those who live to kill Jews had extinguished the light of one of our precious neshamos. Mrs. Ludmila Lipofsky, who had just passed her 83rd birthday on November 11, had been murdered in cold blood by a knife-wielding terrorist.
Ludmila Lipofsky was born in 1941 in Buy, a small town in Russia about 275 miles northeast of Moscow. She was forcibly evacuated to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, a distance of over 2,200 miles, where she spent the war years. She was one of the privileged few to leave the Soviet Union for Eretz Yisrael, where she married and had a family.
Mrs. Lipofsky was outside the Herzliya assisted living home where she lived, waiting for her daughter to take her to the doctor, when she was attacked and mortally wounded.
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