Rabbi’s Kidney Saves Life of Israeli Family Man

by Tamar Runyan and Jessica Naiman – Chabad.org

Rabbi Avrohom Lider, right, arranged the kidney donation between Albany, N.Y., Rabbi Mendy Mathless, left, and Israeli resident Yisrael Konstantini, second from left.

When someone is sick, loved ones pray for their health, recite Psalms and try to add a measure of goodness in this world in his merit. But for Rabbi Mendy Mathless, such efforts weren’t enough. Informed that someone he never knew was in need of a kidney, he gave him his.

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City Offers Courses on how to Safeguard Homes from Rats

by Candice Giove – NY Post

This school teaches a fourth “R” — rats. Starting Wednesday, the city is offering Rat 101 — a three-hour cram course on keeping the long-tailed terrors from feasting on the fetid buffets inside trash bags.