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School Program Makes the Grade

(Right) Rabbi Yosef Levy helps Jonathan Bush, 7, read Hebrew during Chabad Chayil’s after-school program in Aventura.

Chabad Chayil’s Hebrew after-school program at the Aventura Waterways K-8 Center was recently rated as one of the best in Miami-Dade County by A Gift for the Soul, an educational consulting company hired by the county.

Mazal Tov! 18 is Not A Crowd

Ynet

‘Less physical work.’ Rivkah and her baby

Rivkah, 44, of Jerusalem gives birth to her 18th baby, who is already an uncle of two and evens out score in household which is now comprised of nine girls and nine boys. ‘They came one by one,’ she says.

CLOTHESMINDEDNESS – You Are What You Wear

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, FL.

Motel the tailor wanders into a small flophouse late one stormy winter night. “Quite full,” says the innkeeper. “Let’s see . . . I’ve got a single Cossack in one of the rooms up on the top floor. Your best bet is to climb into the bed beside him. Sorry, it’s the best I can do. ”

Grateful for a place to park his weary bones, the traveler quickly makes for the staircase, halting only to request that the innkeeper wake him well before dawn. “Got a train to catch,” he importantly blurts out.

Before he knows it, there’s a hand shaking him awake. “It’s well before dawn,” says a voice; “your train.”

Kids Prepare for Interstate Farbrengen Conference Call

Chabad House Compass Express

Children participating in a conference call. Illustration Photo.

This coming Sunday, Tes Adar, dozens of Shluchim’s children in a various time zones will gather to sing Niggunim, hear a Chassisidishe Maaseh, say L’chaim (on grape juice) and rededicate themselves to their missions as soldiers in Tzivos Hashem. All this, via conference call.