Urgent Tehillim is needed after a rebbi/counselor at a day camp in Norfolk, Virginia was swept out to sea this afternoon.
WVEC reports that crews were trying to find the counselor, Reuven Tzvi ben Esther Baila, who went missing in the water off False Cape State Park.
Emergency dispatchers received a call reporting a drowning at the park, located at 4001 Sandpiper Road in Virginia Beach. The caller said two people had been in the water. One was 35 years old. The other was an 11-year-old student.
The counselor was with a group of 20 campers when he saw one of the struggling in the water so he went into help. The student was able to get out, but the counselor has not been located yet.
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Camp HASC had the great zechus to host Rav Berel Lazar shlita, Chief Rabbi of Russia, this past Sunday. It was a heartwarming and uplifting visit that the special campers and staff will always remember.
Rav Lazar’s whirlwind visit was coordinated by Mr. Abe Eisner, HASC Chairman, and began with great excitement when the helicopter touched-down in the camp HASC sports complex on the baseball field.

Dear Matzav,
At a time of heightened negativity both from within and without, it is important to publicize this stark reminder of just how special, holy, noble, refined, and wonderful our nation is. Sometimes it takes an “outsider” to say, “Mah tovu ohalecha Yaakov” and remind us just what it means to be an “am livadad yishkon” which shines forth a light of decency, morality, and kindness onto the nations of the world.
Read the post of a bus driver for a Jewish camp who “could not have asked for a better behaved, polite and grateful group of boys.”
The following are just some of the comments Sullivan County residents added to the post, showing how far reaching small acts can go when we  make a Kiddush Hashem:

The principal of a high school in the heavily Jewish-populated Florida city of Boca Raton has been facing calls to resign after declining to recognize that the Holocaust occurred.
The Palm Beach Post first reported on Friday, citing email records obtained through a public-records request, that Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson told a mother of a student in April 2018 who sought to ensure that Holocaust education was “a priority” that “not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.”
“And you have your thoughts, but we are a public school, and not all of our parents have the same beliefs,” he continued.
A petition calling for Latson to resign has almost 6,300 signatures.

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By: Zvi Gluck
Let me be the first to admit that I am not a math person, yet, unfortunately, it seems that right now my life has been all about numbers.
For those of you who have been spared the pain that has devastated klal yisroel since mid-June, let me fill you in on what has been taking place in Jewish communities all over the United States. Over a three week period, drug overdoses killed nine of our own, with six more remaining in comas as I write these words. Another 17 overdoses had more positive outcomes, baruch Hashem, with Narcan successfully reviving those victims, but without proper treatment I can’t honestly tell you that any of those individuals are really out of the woods.