Daily Archives: May 22, 2006

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.