Area Jews to construct new school

ORMOND BEACH, FL — Attending a Jewish parochial school is normally a privilege reserved for children in the largest cities, as a local rabbi and his benefactor can attest.

Morris Esformes, the owner of three nursing homes in Volusia County, left home at age 13 to attend a Jewish boarding school in Chicago.

Pinchas Ezagui, rabbi for the Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Daytona, sends his two teenage children to the Windy City for their Jewish education.

Charge of Negligent Homicide for Boy, 8, in School Bus Death

An 8-year-old boy who climbed into a parked school bus, released the emergency brake and sent 26,000 pounds of steel rolling through Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Monday was charged yesterday with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Amber Sadiq, 8, who was crushed between the bus’s right undercarriage and a street pole.

The boy, Tafari James, had been suspended from second grade on Friday for climbing onto another unattended bus, officials said yesterday in Family Court in Downtown Brooklyn.

Investigators said it was unclear whether he released the brake on Monday intentionally. Witnesses saw him board the bus alone, on Nostrand Avenue near Crown Street, around 3:15 p.m. He rode the bus as it gathered speed down a slight incline and jump off as it thudded to a halt after traveling 100 feet, the police said.

TODAY: KSCVK invites all woman and girls to an ‘Ice Cream Social’

Keren Simchas Choson Vekalah cordially invites all women and girls to an evening of relaxation and inspiration.

Where: Bais Rivkah 470 Lefferts Avenue — The Roza Hall on Tuesday [Today], May 23rd, 2006 at 7:45 pm

Click Extended Article for full invitation.

8 Year Old Girl Killed By Runaway School Bus

At around 3:20 this afternoon a non jewish 8 year old girl standing at the corner of Crown St. and Nostrand Ave. was struck and killed by a School Bus owned and operated by the Jofaz Bus Company. The bus had been parked on Nostrand between Carroll and Crown and according to eyewitnesses there were kids playing on the bus.

The cause of the accident was under investigation. Investigators are looking into the possibility that kids had gotten onto the vehicle, were playing, and somehow released the emergency brake, sending the bus rolling down Nostrand Ave. and when it reached Crown St. the had gone up onto the sidewalk running over the child.

FDNY EMS along with FDNY and NYPD responded in massive numbers only to stand and look at the tragedy before them, they had no way of getting the bus off the child, luckily a ConEd truck with a light crane had just been passing, and with it they raised the bus and freed the child who was then rushed to Kings County Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

More pictures and details in the Extended Article.

Kinus Hashluchim – UK

100 Shluchim and Lubavitch activists gathered for two days in the seaside resort of Bournemouth for this years Kinus HaShluchim UK. Many new Shluchim to the Rebbe’s Army were present. The Kinnus had a tremendous spirit of Achdus and Hachlotas were made to carry forward and expand the Rebbe’s work in the United Kingdom.

Swastikas, hate message painted on Jewish shop in West Boca

Sheriff’s investigators are trying to determine who painted swastikas and a hate-filled message on the windows of a Jewish book and gift shop.

The graffiti was found at YiddishKeit inside the Mission Bay Plaza at U.S. 441 and Glades Road, west of Boca Raton. There were four swastikas and a message that said, “Burn the Jews” drawn in white paint or shoe polish.

Similar messages were found on a Chrysler Voyager minivan in the shopping center parking lot. The car belonged to a florist in the shopping center who is not Jewish, sheriff’s spokeswoman Teri Barbera said. The florist was out of town when the incident happened, Barbera said.

Lag Bomer 1957

Lag Bomer 1957, In the picture: Zalman Lipsker, Sholom Tenebaum, Yitzy Wineberg, Yossi Valenkin.

A Woman’s Harrowing Experience this past Motzoai Shabbos

This is an email I got from a woman who was attacked and assaulted in her car. People read this and take a lesson from it!

UPDATE: After receiving numerous emails and comments about the possibility of the being a false story, I will clarify and tell you that this did indeed happen, verified before being published, almost exactly as told here by the victim. [Please consider the woman’s state of mind, which must have affected the way she remembered what had happened]

Last night I had a terrifying experience on Nostrand Ave [and Lincoln Pl.].

Ladies should NEVER drive alone at night if they can help it. they should keep doors & windows locked, NEVER get out of the car if there’s an incident, sound the horn continuously.

I was on my way to Flatbush and saw a car driving without headlights on, so I flashed it… apparently you become a gang member’s next victim when you do this.

Shliach wins prestigious award!

The Jewish Federation of Houston’s Bureau of Jewish Education will be presenting Rabbi Dovid Goldstein of Chabad Outreach of Houston with the Harold Reingold Yavneh Award. The Yavneh award is presented once a year to an individual who had made outstanding contributions to the Jewish Community in the field of Jewish Education.

Rabbi Goldstein is respected across the community for his work with the Jewish Learning Institute, Friendship Circle, the Living Legacy program, the Texas State Prison System, the Spanish Speaking Community, Camp Gan Israel, Richmond State School for Mentally Challenged Adults, and many other programs. Mazal Tov Rabbi Goldstein on this tremendous honor and kiddush Lubavitch.

Woman fighting county for records

“Bitter old lady ”scream’s and holler’s about the process“ of building a Chabad House”

To view pictures of the construction Click Here!

Coralie Pryde has made six trips in 10 months to the New Castle County Land Use Department to see what she believes are public records about a building project in the 1800 block of Silverside Road in Talleyville.

Pryde opposes the project because she says the proposed Chabad Lubavitch Enrichment Center is too big for the land it will sit on, does not have adequate parking, will disrupt traffic and infringes on the border of a stream that occasionally floods the neighborhood.

Chabad Center adds dimension to Jewish community

Edwards, CO – When visiting the new Chabad Center of the Vail Valley, Jews of all backgrounds can expect Rabbi Dovid Mintz and his wife, Doba, to welcome them with warmth and kosher treats.

Tefillin In The Cockpit Of An Airplane!

Bochurim on a flight headed to Chicago for the Annual Kinnus Hatmimim Hashluchim, merited a Jewish pilot in the mitzvah of laying Tefillin for the first time, in the cockpit of the plane. The pilot never had a bar mitzvah and had never put on Tefillin. When the Bochurim were getting off the plane the pilot who was seeing off all the passenger gave them a ‘different’ greeting, he said to them ‘Zie Gezunt’ (in Yiddish, Be Well) so they asked, sir are you Jewish…!