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Open Letter From Shimshon Stock: Flipping Houses

My Dear Friends & Neighbors:

Please hear me out, don’t throw this away – I realize there are many papers arriving at your door daily nevertheless I ask PLEASE HEAR ME OUT?

Several people in this community have caused housing to skyrocket by FLIPPING real estate!! They buy houses from long time residents and flip the homes for astronomical profits. They compete with other members of the schunah for the sole purpose of flipping for a huge profit! Years ago when a friend or neighbor was looking for a house and we knew of one we were thrilled to pass on the information. Today unfortunately there are yungelight canvassing the neighborhood for available homes so they can FLIP for profits ranging from $50,000 to $380,000. Once ‘Mr. Roberts’ becomes aware of the price his new neighbor paid he will seek the same or more.

There is NO excuse for this shameful greed!

This is not like selling a container of milk for a higher price. This cannot be considered “regular business practice”.

spring session of Creative Kids Club at the JCM gets Underway

The spring session of Creative Kids Club at the Jewish Children’s Museum got off to a smashing start as more than 300 kids attended the first in a series of exciting events.

Though the Museum has been offering after school activities for the last few semesters, the range of this season’s options are by far the most exciting ever.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Area Jews to construct new school

Daytona Beach News

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

The New York Times
EMT’s, Paramedics and Fire Fighters huddled over Amber in attempt to save her life.

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.