Mother worries even though son escaped quake unhurt

When Orna Barashi from Jerusalem heard on the news that an earthquake had hit the city of Christchurch and that its Chabad House had been destroyed, she feared the worst.

“My son had sent me an e-mail two days before telling me he had just arrived in Christchurch and that he was staying at the Chabad House until he found somewhere else,” she told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

Luckily, her son, Arel Barashi, was not at the hassidic movement’s outreach center at the time of the quake, which killed scores of people.

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