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Bramson ORT Reminds Students to Register Before Changes

Federal Aid cut coming this July. Students encouraged to register for Bramson ORT program now:

Four years ago, a unique partnership was developed between Crown Heights and Bensonhurst. Community leaders from Chabad realized that many students in their yeshiva system were not planning on continuing and obtaining smicha and would rather choose a career. There was a need to develop a framework which would allow them to earn the skills to make a respectable parnassah and raise families. Thus, the JTVS program at Bramson ORT College was created.

The Gift of Loss: Talking About My Miscarriage

Even though statistics show that many women reading this right now have experienced the loss of a pregnancy, most of these women have not and likely never will publicly address or even mention in private the fact of their miscarriage. Being that this kind of death is a fact of many women’s lives, and that silence and shame only exaggerate the pain, I am opening up about my own miscarriage, which occurred a little over two months ago.

Photos: The African-American Version of Shomrim?

USA Today published these photos of members of Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) canvassing a section of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The organization, which is made up of “violence interrupters” and outreach workers that grew up or live in the neighborhood, makes almost nightly patrols to discourage residents from criminal activity.

April Showers Bring May Vegetables at Chabad House

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Second-year Moxie Schults (left) and Anna Jones (AB ’11) water their plot at the Chabad Center’s new community garden.

Things are coming up roses for a Chabad House in Suburban Chicago. NSW Chabad’s Community Garden, which began construction last month, has already developed into a full-fledged patch of 12 individual plots, 10 of which are already reserved and in the first stages of sprouting and the other two available for year-long leases.