Swine Flu Confirmed in Queens Students

QUEENS [WABC] — New York City was dealing with a growing public health threat Sunday after tests confirmed that eight students at a private Catholic high school had contracted swine flu. Some of the school’s students had visited Mexico on a spring break trip two weeks ago.

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Largest Emergency Meeting In Montreal’s History

MONTREAL [CHI] — At least 2000 Montreal-Anash (Men and Women) are expected to attend an emergency meeting tonight, Sunday 8:45pm at the Yeshiva at 6405 Westbury Avenue. After Crown Heights, Montreal is the next largest Chabad shchuna in the world!

The 68-year-old Tomchei Temimim is the only Chabad elementary school in Montreal, Canada.

Cultures Collide Wonderfully for Unusual Seder in Thailand

By Levi Stein for the Home Town Life

Correspondent Levi Stein getting a ride in a tuk tuk.

It isn’t often a person from West Bloomfield shares Passover Seder in Thailand with someone from Sydney, Australia, but that’s exactly what I did this year.

Australian Rebbecca Saidman was married a few days before and looked up the nearest Chabad House during her travels in the city of Chiang Mei.

Mumbai Terrorist Claims he is a Juvenile

NEW DELHI [CNN] — An Indian court — trying the lone surviving suspect in last year’s Mumbai terrorist attacks — Friday ordered an inquiry into his age, prompted by his claim that he is a juvenile.

Mohammed Ajmal Kasab will undergo dental and bone tests, defense attorney Abbas Kazmi told CNN.

Parents and Alumni Organize Salute of Campus Center’s Fifth Year Celebration

By Tami Kamin-Meyer for Chabad.edu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chancellor Richard Herman, left, and Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel of the Chabad-Lubavitch Center for Jewish Student Life speak at a Chanukah menorah lighting at the university’s student union building in 2007. Herman will address the Chabad House’s fifth-anniversary dinner this Sunday night.

When Steven Cohn’s son Ari and the rest of his freshman class embarked on their collegiate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003, they weren’t the only newcomers to campus. Meeting them were Rabbi Dovid and Goldie Tiechtel, who had just arrived to open the Chabad-Lubavitch Center for Jewish Student Life.

Op-Ed: Stroller Controller – on Inconsiderate Stroller Operators

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Even when William Congreve coined the phrase “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”, he could not have envisioned the utter lack of courtesy and decency with which I and many other residents of this community are confronted on a daily basis.

I am referring to what I like to call the “Baby on Board Syndrome”, where many mothers feel as though they are the queens of their domain, and that the rest of the world must either make their motherly lives easier or get out of their way.

The most common example of such lack of courtesy takes place when a person sees a woman with a stroller who needs to enter a store. Naturally, most bystanders quickly react by opening the door and holding it open for the mother with the stroller.