Bus Loaded with Children Pelted with Stones

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Monday, A Lubavitcher Yeshiva school bus full of young children was pelted with stones earlier this afternoon as it was making its rounds dropping children off. The incident took place on President Street between Utica and Schenectady as the bus began pulling away, when the driver noticed a large group of youths and all of a sudden a few rocks hit the bus.

The driver, Reb Dovid Astulin said “all of a sudden I hear ‘BOOM BOOM’, and I right away stopped the bus” he then tried to chase after the group while calling police and Shomrim but they scattered and was impossible for him to follow them.

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Up to 700 Arrests Estimated in Postville ICE Raid

Nigel Duara and William Petroski – Des Moines Register

Buses with blackened windows were brought into the National Cattle Congress grounds in Waterloo on Monday after immigration officials raided the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville.

POSTVILLE, IA — Four Homeland Security buses with U.S. Immigration and Customs tags on them have entered the Agriprocessors Inc. complex.

The buses, along with a trail of SUVs and vans with Minnesota license plates, arrived at about 11:45am

Princeton University Grants Official Recognition to Chasidic Rabbi

By Joshua Runyan – Chabad.edu

Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Eitan Webb, right, whom Princeton University just appointed as an official chaplain, instructs students as part of the Sinai Scholars program sponsored by his Chabad House.

PRINCETON, NJ — Princeton University appointed Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Eitan Webb as an official chaplain after a student-driven campaign to afford the local Chabad House full recognition. The move represents a complete reversal of a administrative decision last year to deny Webb the post.