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Released Time to Host Conference in Queens

With the coming school year on the horizon, Released Time program is happy to announce that it will I”YH be hosting a conference this upcoming Labor Day, September 1st.  It will be taking place in Queens, with the focus being to give the weekly instructors an opportunity to unite and revitalize.

Op-Ed: The High School That Cares

I am the proud mother of a happy teenager who goes to Bnos Chomesh High School in Crown Heights. I am writing this op-ed anonymously because, after all, my daughter is a teenager, and needs her privacy. But remembering how I agonized at this time last year, I felt that I just had to share my story in the hopes that maybe it will help someone else.

by Anonymous

Picture of the Day: Hot Dogs, Car Batteries and Tefilin

Crown Heights community member Mendel Goldstein was on a trip with his family in Long Island yesterday; when it was time for lunch, he hooked up a miniature microwave oven to his car battery to cook some hot dogs. As he prepared the meal, the owner of the adjacent ‘air trampoline’ establishment came out to see what he was doing. In the ensuing conversation, it was revealed that the man was Jewish and hadn’t put on Tefilin since his Bar Mitzvah – which was 40 years ago.

Regional Kinus of Shluchim to Asia in Nariman House

An amazing triumph brought the Shluchim of Asia together for a regional Kinus Hashluchim in the Nariman House in Mumbai, India. After being largely destroyed in a terror attack, which claimed the lives of Shluchim Rabbi Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg along with three other Jews HYD, the building has been rebuilt and is being dedicated with the day’s long conference.

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