After arson hits a Chabad house, it's all about spreading light
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t was nine thirty in the evening last Thursday when Rabbi Mendy Krinsky first smelled the smoke. When he stepped outside, he was shocked to discover a fire at the entrance to his house, which doubles as the Chabad House and shul of Needham, Massachusetts.
Rabbi Krinsky quickly picked up a fire extinguisher and put out the fire while his wife called the police. Now the flames have been extinguished, but the fear remains.
“It is very shocking and unsettling,” he told Mishpacha in a phone interview.
Rabbi Krinsky says that despite the troubling incident, he has received much heartwarming support from neighbors and members of the Chabad community.
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