“Will Rogers never met a man he didn’t like. I never a met a man who didn’t like Rabbi Dovid Bryn,” said David Leone, a prominent South Florida educator, as he busily prepared to honor his spiritual mentor on the occasion of Rabbi Bryn’s tenth yohrzeit (anniversary of his passing).
The Merkos Chinuch Office summer Kinusim for Mechanchim and Mechanchos will each feature a series of presentations and workshops on the Danielson Framework for Enhancing Student Achievement, an educational program which has been taking the country by storm.
Bais Iyar takes on a new practical meaning for the students of the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami. Students came to school wondering what a huge truck and crane were there for, only to witness the transformation of the beautiful school grounds to an all our rock climbing – palm tree extravaganza.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Mendel Tiefenbrun (London, UK) and Mushky Caytak (Ottawa, Canada), which took place Wednesday, April 25 at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
Meyer and Chaya (nee Karp) Rodal (Crown Heights)
Though it’s almost two months since the completion of the 30th cycle of the Daily Rambam – the teachings of Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon commonly known as Maimonides, the global celebrations of this momentous occasion still aren’t over.
Yesterday at Cheder at the Ohel, teachers became students and parents became teachers.
Under the guidance of their patient, devoted and enthusiastic teacher, Rabbi Moshe Stern, the boys of 4th grade in Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Montreal produced a simply unbelievable project. They toiled and learned for many weeks about the 39 melachos, and put together a physical exhibition of them.
Yossi Feldman (Philadelphia, PA) and Kendel Leah Kolt (Monsey, NY)
A Siyum Mishnayos and Seudah marking the Shloshim of Reb Mendel Bartfield, OBM, will take place today, Thursday (4 Iyar, April 26) at Empire Shtiebel, 489 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.] at 8:25 PM.
Friends and relatives of Reb Avrohom Yeshaya Schtroks, OMB, have set up a website – zichronshayaschtroks.com – where people can share their personal memories, as well as contribute to a fund set up to help the family financially through this difficult time. One of Reb Yeshaya’s students in the Morristown cheder, Schneur Zalman Wilansky from Elizabeth, NJ, relates the following:
Some time last night, the windows to this Beis Rivka School bus were smashed. The bus is kept in the Crown St. parking lot which is protected by razor tipped fence and and locked gates. The only way to get into the parking lot is through the school itself, so it’s likely that the vandals were some rowdy children from the community who were attending an event in the school hall.
Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who has been representing New York’s 11th district – which includes Crown Heights – for the past 8 years, seems to have some communist sympathies.
Last Monday, at around 5:00 PM, a drunk driver hit two parked cars on Ocean Parkway; he then exited his vehicle and tried to flee. Flatbush Shomrim were on the scene and chased him down, but were unable to to hold on to him. Eventually, the Police arrived and together the man was tackled and placed under arrest.
A Jewish man walking down Albany Avenue today witnesses the attempted mugging of a Hispanic woman by an African-American man near the corner of Crown Street. While the woman held steadfastly to her possessions, he ran over to help, causing the perpetrator to flee.
Eli and Batsheva (nee Perlow) Kaminetzky (Taos, NM)
An African-American man in his late 40s was shot point blank in the head in the lobby of an apartment building on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Nostrand Ave. He died on the spot.
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