OTTAWA — Imagine a realistic indoor village – complete with a bank, candy store, hair salon, pharmacy and working traffic lights – where special needs children can have fun learning life skills in a sheltered, safe environment. Imagine the tremendous boost to their social, physical and cognitive skills, not to mention their self-confidence and dignity.
It was a busy morning, about 8:30 an elderly gentleman in his 80's arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him.
I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.
While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife.
It was a busy morning, about 8:30 an elderly gentleman in his 80’s arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him.
I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.
While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife.
VARNA, Bulgaria — It’s one thing to talk about the Jewish holidays. But to actually experience them the way they were meant to be celebrated is like nothing else in the world.
Yosef Yitzchak Kratz (Afula, Israel/Crown Heights) and Chanie Pewzner (Crown Heights)
Shloime and Shoshi (nee Lerman) Eichler
702 Eastern Parkway [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
Sholomke and Mushka (nee Greenberg) Nagar
1485 President St [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Dovid and Chaya (nee Gopin) Margolin
444 Crown St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Levi and Sarah Leah Seewald
661 Crown St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]
Akiva and Chaya (nee Chazan) Isenberg
734 Empire Blvd [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Sholom and Kayla (nee Chanowitz) Kramer
620 Montgomery St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Yonason and Hila (nee Carroll) Gordon
1199 S Johns Pl, Top Floor [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Itzik and Rochel Dahan
72 Clove Rd [between Montgomery and Malbone St]
Yossi and Miri (nee Rudski) Evers
5840 Avenue Trans Island, Montréal, QC, Canada
Shmuly and Elana (nee Dauer) Kornfeld (Burbank, CA)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was shot and killed this afternoon in a drive by shooting on a Crown Heights street.
HONG KONG [CHI] — Over 200 people packed Hong Kong’s Jewish Community Center on Monday, celebrating the Bris of Boruch Sholom Kamhin, son of Moshe and Miriam (nee Greene) Kamhin.
Tyler Hochman describes his effort to send 280 wheelchairs to Israel with a metaphor.
ALBANY, NY — Students at the Maimonides Day School in Albany got up-close lessons in modern day idolatry when a traveling sculpture exhibit set up shop for several months in the New York capital.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Bochur on his way home from night Seder in Yeshiva was accosted by a group of 3 Black teens on Brooklyn Avenue, who hit him and threatened to stab him in attempt to steal his bicycle.
On Chaf Mar Cheshvan, the birthday of the Rebbe Rashab (the 5th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch), the English speaking Chabad community of Ramat Beit Shemesh (Alef), Chabad on Dolev of Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel, held a wonderful farbrengen.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Parshas Chaye Sarah came to life in the classrooms of Beis Rivkah. The children were engaged in various different creative and educational activities that captured their excitement of discovering new concepts.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Mispalelim of the early Minyans in 770 celebrated the completion and dedication of a new Sefer Torah last night in honor of the Rebbe Rashabs 150th Birthday. The Torah was sponsored by the mispallalim of the 7:30am Minyan in 770, fondly known as the “Happy Minyan”, and mispallalim of the 7:15am Minyan.
MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — Earlier this week the Rambam community, lead by Rabbi Shlomo Sabbah, had the privilege to welcome a brand new Torah scroll donated by Mr Patrick Sabbah & family (Los Angeles CA).
Hundreds of candles glinted off wine glasses while a burnished chandelier hanging from a 70-foot-high ceiling cast a rosy glow over the packed marble-clad ballroom of New York City’s Gotham Hall.
The MTA board has approved increases on tolls at certain New York bridges and tunnels. Crossings that only collect one-way tolls will increase by $1, while round-trip tolls, like those on the Verrazano Narrows, will increase by $2. E-ZPass users will only see an increase of 5 percent.
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