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Mazal Tov! – It’s A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuel and Devorah (nee Perlstein) Gancz (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.


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Learn CPR and First Aid

It was a Friday night. The *family was finishing their Shabbos meal when their 2 year-old suddenly began to choke on a small piece of watermelon. The panicked parents tried the traditional slaps on the back, but it failed to dislodge the obstruction. The child began to turn blue from lack of oxygen, r”l. Fortunately, an uncle, who had been taught the Heimlich maneuver years before, happened to be on hand. He quickly sprang into action, lifted the child and began to repeatedly perform the technique.

New York City’s Emergency Text Alerts In the Spotlight

By Marisa Taylor for the Wall Street Journal

NEW YORK — A warning would have been welcome when an Air Force jet flew unannounced over the New York Harbor weeks ago and sent frightened workers in lower Manhattan into a tizzy. (When it turned out the flyover was for an expensive photo op, the White House official who approved it resigned from his post over the scandal.)