Infant Falls from a Second Story Window

Above: the window from which the boy fell. Below: the guard rail laying on the sidewalk.

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A 1-and-a-half year old boy took a two story plunge out of his family’s 2nd floor apartment, and miraculously survived.

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Cape Town Unites for Lag B’omer

The beaming Head of Security and Law Enforcement for the City of Cape Town was standing with the rabbis at the Lag BaOmer parade on Sunday afternoon. When asked how many people he counted on his crowd ticker coming in from the Great Parade down the Sea Point Beach Front into the beautiful Green Point Stadium Park he just shrugged “oh, about 1,500…”

First Impressions at AIPAC

In September 2009, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to American Jewish leaders at the 92nd Street Y, he recalled that as a young ambassador to the UN, he was advised by the Lubavitcher Rebbe that he would be entering “a house of darkness and lies.” The Rebbe gave him a “mission to light a candle for truth and for the Jewish people,” he said.

Kfar Chabad Vaad Re-elected in Landslide

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Rabbi Binyomin Lifshitz farbrengs with Zaki Tamir. Illustration photo.

R’ Binyomin (Yami) Lifshitz was re-elected chairman of the Vaad of Kfar Chabad by almost ninety nine percent of the vote! New members to be joining the Vaad are: R’ Gershom Ohana, R’ Shimon Rabinowitz and R’ Mendel Gurewitz.

Over 30 Shots Fired in Early Morning Shootout

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — They ‘injured’ a car and a van, but managed to strike very little else. A dueling duo turned the intersection of Albany Avenue and President Street into their own O.K. Corral, firing over thirty shots at each other from opposite sides of the street.

NS Victim’s Family Shouted Down at Press Conference

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A press conference held today by family members of a man badly burned in an arson attack turned into a shouting match when a village man called the family’s lawyer an anti-Semite for going against the grand rabbi.

Picture of the Day! The Doctor and the Rabbi Dance

After running into each other on Carroll and Kingston this morning, Dr. Eli Rosen and Rabbi Kalman Winefeld greeted each other with a warm hug and broke out in a dance to the song of ‘Bar Yochai’, clearly still in the spirit of Lag B’omer.

A Young Business Owners Donation to Education

A good education is an asset that will stay with a student long after they graduate. Schools should focus on building character, teaching students how to grow into their own, so they can continue succeeding in their lives, no matter where life takes them. Teachers should inspire students with the practical skills necessary to be successful in the real world. This is the principle that led Mottie Wiener, CEO of DailySteals.com to sponsor the awards for teachers who participated in the first successful year of Menachem Education Foundation’s Data Driven Instruction program.