New York - Proper chinuch can be all about striking just the right balance — as much about not saying the wrong things as it is about saying the right things. Above all else, it's about teaching our children by our own good example. Take, for example, the trumped up rabbinic ban that led the singer Lipa Schmelczer to cancel a charity concert at Madison Square Garden last February. Many...

Israel - The parents of a 3-year-old who were traveling, left their son behind at Hayarden Park and realized his absence only two hours later, when they reached Tiberias. Police officers patrolling the park noticed the child wandering alone. From their conversation with the boy, they concluded that his parents apparently left him behind by mistake. Police bought the child sweets and...

Postville, IA - About 50 rabbis in charge of supervising the kosher slaughter and processing of meat at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville walked off the job today to protest recent pay cuts. The rabbis reportedly took the action because of a decrease in pay since a May 12 Immigration raid, the largest in U.S. history. The plant has since drastically reduced production Agriprocessors...

Jerusalem, Israel - The Jerusalem municipality's plan to build a haredi kindergarten in the predominantly secular neighborhood of Kiryat Hayovel is disturbing secular residents concerned that the their quality of life will be harmed, and that their community will join others in the city that have turned ultra-Orthodox. City tractors had already started to brake ground for the placement of two...

Duluth, MN - Two-by-two-inch tiles bearing a close resemblance to Nazi swastikas will stay in Congdon Elementary School despite concerns raised by some community members. Built in 1929, Congdon Elementary School and the tiles in question were here four years before the rise of Nazi Germany. The nine tiles are in two Superior Street entrances to the school. It’s a symbol that’s been...

Borough Park – Councilman Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) and United Community Services of Boro Park (UCS) are hosting a follow-up Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Mobile Outreach event for permit exams on August 27, 2008 at the UCS office at 1575 50th Street, 3rd Floor in Boro Park. Participants need to RSVP to Sarah at (718) 854-9300 as soon as possible for an opportunity to take the permit...

Greenfield Park, NY - Hatzolah rushing to the scene at 80 Synagogue Road for a child that was hit by a tree and sustained severe trauma, Medics responding Code-1, Chopper Life Net-75 on stand by. U/D: 4:59pm All units to proceed in on a slow down...

Chicago, IL - the Illinois legislature joined the ranks of seventeen other states by passing a bill expanding health-care options for young adults. Set to take effect on January 1, 2009, the bill allows young adults to remain on their parents’ health insurance until they turn twenty-six years old. In Illinois, an estimated 300,000 young adults are eligible for this extended coverage. The...

Tblisi, Georgia - With the developing political situation in Georgia, the question arises as to how the Jewish community is faring in Georgia and in the capital city of Tblisi. The Five Town Jewish Times contacted the staff members of the Vaad LeHatzolas Nidchei Yisroel working on the ground in Tblisi. We spoke with both the Chief Rabbi, who heads the Vaad operations in Georgia as well as with...

Brooklyn, NY - Eating disorders affect 3% of the general population and sadly, the Jewish population is proving no exception to this scourge. Ohr Naava and the Jewish Board of Family and Children Services (JBFCS) are proud to announce a night dedicated to stopping eating disorders in the Jewish community. The event will take place tomorrow, Thursday, August 21st at 7 P.M. at Ohr Naava, located at...

Jerusalem - The campaign to liquidate the "mishmeres hatznius" is broadening. Binyomin Meyerovitch was arrested today under suspicion as one of the heads of the organization. Shmuel Veisfish was arrested at the beginning of the week. Jerusalem police spokesman: "We are weighing whether to extend Meyerovitch's incarceration." "We have resolved to wipe them out," said an agent in the...

Spring Valley, NY - Fire departments on scene of a working fire in a private dwelling at 110 Decator Avenue off Maple Street, Hillcrest Fire and Monsey Department's also responding. Hatzolah and Chaverim on scene with one female aided trapped in the house. About a hundred neighborhood residents stood across the street watching. Residents stood in clusters across the street on lawns as...

Bridgeport, CT - A multi-family house was heavily damaged by fire today. Fire Capt. Luis Rivera said the cause of the blaze at 1133 Madison Ave. remains under investigation. There were no injuries reported from the fire.. The house is owned by Mark Breiner and associated with the Talmudic Institute of Connecticut, a Jewish school that sits behind the house. The fire broke out in two rooms...

New York City - An elevator at a Brooklyn apartment building where a 5-year-old boy died Tuesday when he fell down the shaft had been scheduled to be modernized in 2004, but the work was twice deferred because of federal cutbacks, according to the New York City Housing Authority, the building’s landlord. It is unknown whether the delays contributed to the accident, which is under...

Postville, IA - Let's see, we have Rabbis tearing each other apart over kashrut, which is an issue that is totally irrelevant to the vast majority of Jews, the Jerusalem Post, a right-leaning newspaper in Israel publishing the self-serving (and publicly contradicted) words of an American Orthodox rabbi telling us that the technological capacity of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa is so...