Obituaries Obituaries from page 125 27, were shot on the night of Aug. 25 at the brothers' apartment. The three were pronounced dead at the scene, according to reports. Police believe the men were targeted by the assailants, according to the Los Angeles Times. There was no sign of forced entry. "Our community is shocked by the needless murder of three members of the Iranian Jewish community' Pooya Dayanim, president of the Iranian Jewish Public Affairs Committee, told the Beverly Hills Courier. The men all moved to the United States as young children, Dayanim told the Associated Press. They were not wealthy and had no criminal pasts, he added. JDC Helps Elderly Survive Moscow Heat New York/JTA — The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has enlisted a group of volunteers to help elderly Jews in Moscow during a heat wave in Russia. JDC has created a volunteer base of some 40 young Jewish students and profession- als in the Russian capital to check in on the elderly as temperatures in recent days have hit 100 degrees and beyond, the organization said in a news release. The volunteers are "ready to do everything necessary from check-in calls, in-home visits, revitalizing meal deliveries, and fan purchases': the JDC said in the release. They have made about 900 phone calls and numerous home visits to the isolated elderly, as well as helped staff an air-condi- tioned childcare program at a JCC. "By activating our strong network of community centers and social workers with supplemental help from young people who gave up their traditional Russian summer vacations to volunteer, we have helped many people escape the oppressive and exhausting conditions brought on by this environmental crisis," said Steven Schwager, the CEO of the Joint Distribution Committee. New Chabad House Being Built In Mumbai JTA — Construction has begun on a new Mumbai Chabad House. The building will include a synagogue, kosher kitchen, mikvah and educational spaces, according to a Chabad-Lubavitch official in New York. It also will include a memorial to directors Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg and four visitors who were viciously murdered in 18325 \Vest Nine Mile Road So/Wield. MI 48075 248-569-0020 Fax: 248-569-2502 zetelgirakanlinan.com 126 September 2 • 2010 Obituaries the Nariman House in the November 2008 attacks on several Mumbai sites, including luxury hotels, a train station and a popular cafe. More than 170 people were killed in the attacks. German Yeshivah To Ordain 2 Rabbis Berlin/JTA — Two rabbinical students reflecting the demographics of Germany's burgeoning Jewish community are set to be ordained at a German seminary. In what some are calling more proof of the revival of Jewish life in Germany, Shlomo Afanasev and Moshe Baumel of the Rabbinical Seminary of Berlin will be ordained in ceremonies Monday at the his- toric synagogue of Leipzig. They are the second batch of rabbis trained at the school, a program of the U.S.- based Ronald S. Lauder Foundation. The first ordination was held in June 2009 in Munich. Asanev was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he studied financial management and accounting. He will be working for the Jewish communities in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. Baumers family immigrated to Germany from Lithuania in 1991. He will be rabbi and director of Jewish studies at the Zwi-Peres- Chajes School of the Jewish Community of Vienna, Austria. In addition to pursuing ordination, Baumel has studied art history and antiquities. Germany's Jewish community consists of about 80 percent immigrants from the for- mer Soviet Union. Some 200,000 Jews live in Germany today, about half of whom are affili- ated with Jewish communities. Only 20 years ago, the Jewish population was about 30,000. "The ordination is the apotheosis of all the concerns about whether the Russian immi- gration to Germany would produce Jewish life': Rabbi Joshua Spinner, the Rabbinical Seminary's director, told JTA. The influx of Jews "is not only producing the communities who want the rabbis, it is also producing the rabbis themselves': said Spinner, 40, who last year was appointed chief executive officer and executive vice president of the Lauder Foundation. The seminary describes itself as a suc- cessor to the institution founded by Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer in 1873 in Berlin and shut down by the Nazis in 1938. The seminary is associated with the Conference of European Rabbis and the Orthodox Rabbinical Conference of Germany.