Update From Yosef Shidler About Lakewood Yeshivas Not Accepting Children

DIN: This article was submitted by the author on Tuesday afternoon, and since that time, a Lakewood school has reached out to him to offer to accept his child into their school.

Having been overwhelmed by the public show of support that my wife and I received after sharing the story of our failed attempts to get our daughter into school, I feel compelled to express our gratitude to the many people who contacted us to let us know that they are there for us as we face this challenge, with far too many sharing that they were in the same boat. I wish I could tell you that our daughter has been accepted by a Lakewood school in the past week, but sadly that isn’t the case. One school offered to accept my child, if I was willing to retract my letter and apologize.

14-Year-Old Chareidi Boy R”L Killed After Jumping Off Bridge Into Jordan River

A 14-year-old Charedi boy, who was vacationing with his family near the kibbutz of Degania Aleph, some 10 kilometers south of Tevaria, jumped off of a bridge and into the Jordan river and hit his head. The boy suffered severe head trauma and lost consciousness immediately.

Bystanders who were in the area, together with the boy’s family members, pulled the boy from the water and onto the beach and alerted emergency response teams. United Hatzalah volunteers and Magen David Adom personnel arrived and began performing CPR on the boy in an attempt to stabilize him. He was originally in critical condition as the EMS responders treated him. Following an elongated CPR attempt at the beach, it was decided to transport the boy to Ziv Medical Center while still undergoing CPR. An MDA medical helicopter was called and airlifted the boy to the Medical Center where doctors in the trauma center were able to revive the boy to the point where his pulse returned. Treatment continued while he was still classified as being in critical condition.

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yair Nachum was one of the first responders at the scene and said following the incident: “When I arrived at the scene I saw bystanders performing CPR on the boy while they were receiving instructions over the phone from United Hatzalah’s dispatcher. With the assistance of a paramedic from United Hatzalah and other first responders, we performed CPR on the boy for a lengthy period of time, following which he was transported to the hospital in critical condition.”

Later on in the evening, a Spokesperson for the Ziv Medical Center announced that all efforts had failed and that the boy passed away in spite of every effort by the medical staff to save his life. The boy’s parents and siblings were with him when he died and the social worker of the hospital was assisting them.

Driver killed On Gowanus after bouncing tire crashes through windshield

A civilian member of the NYPD died in a freak accident when his car was struck by a tire flung from a private sanitation truck Wednesday morning, police and sources said

The 64-year-old man was driving a Chevy in the eastbound lane of the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn around 6:30 a.m. while the sanitation truck was traveling in the opposite direction.

Suddenly the truck’s tire came loose and flew from the westbound lane into the windshield of the man’s SUV, prompting him to crash into a roadway barrier near Third Avenue, police said.

At the time, the victim was traveling to police headquarters in lower Manhattan, where he worked as a steamfitter for the NYPD, police sources told the Post.

He was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Details about the sanitation company and the truck driver were not immediately available.

Hilarious: ICE Official Has To Explain To Democrat Senator That Illegal Aliens Break The Law

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official had to explain to a Democrat senator during a hearing on Tuesday that illegal aliens are illegal aliens because they have broken federal immigration laws.

After continuing to struggle grasping the basic concept that illegal aliens have broken U.S. immigration laws, Hirono said she was "confused."

Two Yeshivah Students Rescued After Drifting 5 km In Lake Kinneret And Unable To Return!

"So where are your Tzzizit?"

A near disaster occurred today (Wednesday) in the heart of the Sea of ​​Galilee when two yeshiva students, residents of Jerusalem, were swept away in a rubber boat more than five kilometers from the coast without being able to return and  without a means of rescue.

The initial report to the police was received at 8:00 am on a beach in the Sea of ​​Galilee in Kinneret, which caught sight of the two young men as they drifted on the boat, far from the shoreline and unable to return.

Police officers from the Sea of ​​Galilee were dispatched to the site and began searching for the two youths using technological means. Shortly afterwards, the two were located about 5.5 kilometers from the shoreline, when they had no means of rescue and tried unsuccessfully to venture ashore

The two yeshiva students, in their 20s, were rescued by the police and the police indicate that they were in mortal danger. The naval police officers transferred the two to safety.

According to the police, the two went into the rubber boat from Cholon beach, which is a unregulated. Winds then swept them to the heart of the lake, they were  unable to row back and had to be rescued!

Serious Car Accident In Northern Israel Leaves Chareidi Family With Critical Injuries

A head on collision in the northern Golan Heights took place in Israel on Tuesday between a van that a Chareidi family was traveling in and a U.N. Jeep. Six members of the Charedi family were injured and two women in the U.N. jeep were injured as well. Among the family, two children were seriously injured, the parents and two other children were moderately injured. The women in the jeep were lightly injured.

The accident took place on Highway 978 near Moshav Sha’al. United Hatzalah volunteers together with Magen David Adom paramedics and medical staff from the IDF treated the eight injured people at the scene.

An MDA helicopter evacuated the seriously injured 14-year-old boy and the moderately injued 5-year-old boy who both suffered severe head trauma to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. The 14-year-old was sedated and hooked up to a breathing machine. He was set to undergo a CT scan shortly after the accident occurred.

The rest of the family was transported by ambulance to the Ziv Medical Center in Tzefat. The other children ranged in age from 1-year-old to 15-years old. A representative from the medical center said that all of the patients will undergo full examinations to determine whether or not they need CT scans.

The women who were injured in the U.N. jeep, both foreigners, were also transported to Ziv Medical Center where they are being treated for their injuries.

Please say Tehillim for Chana Devora bas Miriam; Yehuda ben Miriam; Henya bas Miriam; Rivka bas Miriam.

Lakewood Follies (In Yiddish)

House Speaker Paul Ryan shocked and proud to learn he's part Jewish

Oy vey!

House Speaker Paul Ryan nearly plotzed recently when he found out that he has Jewish roots, but said he’s kvelling over the news.

The conservative Wisconsin Republican made the discovery through the PBS show “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.”

Gates’ show traced Ryan’s heritage back to his 10th great-grandfather who was born in Germany in 1531. Tests show Ryan is 3 percent Ashkenazi Jewish, according to the college professor.

"You could have knocked him over with a feather and then he was very proud of it," Gates said. "We don't know who that Jewish person was, but we know it was on his mother's German line, which makes sense. 

So somebody who was a Christian German slept with a Jewish German person and that's where that came from."

Malky Wigder Wants Pesach Krohn to Stop Ari Scharf From Molesting Jewish Girls

Vaccine-refusing Orthodox community drove outbreak that cost $395K, sickened babies

A 2013 measles outbreak rooted in a vaccine-refusing community in Brooklyn, New York cost the city’s health department an estimated $394,448 [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2688781], requiring 87 employees to collectively spend more than 10,000 hours on outbreak response and control, according to an analysis published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.

Further Reading - Measles outbreak rages after anti-vaccine groups target vulnerable community [https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/measles-outbreak-rages-after-anti-vaccine-groups-target-vulnerable-community]