An 8-year old suffered a serious head injury after he was stuck by a vehicle in Spring valley on Monday evening. The incident occurred at around 6:45pm on Union Road near Park Street. Hatzolah Paramedics rushed the child to Westchester Trauma Center. The vehicle fled the scene and was stopped by police nearby. The driver was being questioned by authorities. Please say Tehillim for Elimelech ben Rivka. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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Republican Congressman Mike Lawler from New York is introducing legislation aimed at preventing universities that allow “antisemitic events on campus” from participating in student loan and grant programs. The proposed legislation, known as the “Stop Antisemitism on College Campuses Act,” is a response to a recent anti-Semitic commencement speech delivered at CUNY Law School. During the speech, student Fatima Mousa Mohammed made accusations of “indiscriminate” murder by the U.S. military and Israel. She also called for students to join a “revolution” against Zionism, capitalism, and racism. Mohammed claimed that Israel continues to use violence against Palestinians, including the elderly and young, even targeting funerals and graveyards.

For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, four Jewish organizations attended a Wednesday morning Ramapo Police roll-call, including Chaverim of Rockland, Hatzolah of New Square, Hatzolah of Rockland, and New Square Ershte Hilf. Prior to the roll-call, representatives of the organizations met with Ramapo police officers and introduced themselves and their missions to them, outlining how they collaborate with emergency response teams and are the first to be called when police, fire, or EMS require additional manpower or other resources.

Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17) on Thursday introduced a bill that would extend the availability of federal funds provided to non-public schools for an additional year – a move that would be highly beneficial for numerous Orthodox Jewish schools. In 2020 and 2021, a program named Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools (EANS) allocated funds to state authorities for private and parochial schools, with a deadline for using the funds by the end of 2023. As with many federal funding projects, EANS had schools and businesses providing educational services lay out the funds and then would reimburse them through the program.

As the Orthodox Jewish communities in Monsey continue to expand beyond the centrally located East Ramapo school district, the surrounding districts face challenges accommodating the needs of their new yeshiva students. The challenge is particularly acute regarding transporting 35,000+ yeshiva students to over 100 schools. Agudath Israel held many meetings with individual district superintendents to try to come up with a solution. Following these individual meetings Agudath Israel recognized the need to meet with all of the district superintendents together. Recently, Agudath Israel’s Rockland Regional office did just that at a meeting with the Rockland BOCES: The Boards of Cooperative Educational Services for the eight Rockland County school districts.

A top official representing a suburban New York county where New York City’s mayor wants to send asylum seekers vowed to fight the plan Monday by enforcing the state of emergency he declared over the weekend. Rockland County Executive Ed Day, a Republican, planned a news conference to discuss New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to bus up to 300 single adult male migrants to hotels in Rockland and Orange counties. Adams, a Democrat, announced the plan Friday to bus migrants to the two counties north of the city on a voluntary basis. He said the program would help the city handle the more than 37,500 asylum seekers already in the city’s care. Adams said the migrants would be provided with meals and other services during their time in the hotels.

When 911 received a call from an injured hiker and needed additional manpower and resources to evacuate the patient, they knew exactly who to call: Chaverim of Rockland. Chaverim dispatchers received a call from a 911 operator on Sunday reporting police and EMTs were at Kakiat Park for an injured hiker but required manpower and an evacuation stretcher for the patient. The Sheriff’s Department at the scene reported that they had their emergency UTV at the scene but couldn’t reach the injured hiker, thus necessitating the resources of Chaverim. Multiple Chaverim members swiftly responded to the scene, bringing along specialized equipment, including the requested evacuation stretcher.

There is an issue I have now twice encountered at Nyack Hospital that I believe is critical to share with your audience. Three years ago, I gave birth at Nyack Hospital. During my time at the hospital, I noticed that one of the kosher meals given to me was a fleishig one, but contained a dairy cookie for dessert! Following my stay, I gave the hospital a call to let them know that they were erroneously serving dairy with meat! They profusely apologized and assured me that the problem would be rectified. Well, it’s now three years later, and b”h I gave birth to another child at the hospital. And guess what? A full three years after my first stay, I once again got the exact same fleishig dinner with the same dairy cookie!

Rep. Mike Lawler, a dear friend of his Jewish constituents in NY-17, reflected Wednesday on his two-day trip to Israel earlier this week with 19 of his Congressional colleagues led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and joined by local Rockland askanim. “I was honored to be in Israel to celebrate the 75th anniversary of one of our strongest and closest allies in the world,” Lawler told YWN. “I had the chance to visit Jerusalem, experience the Holy Land, and meet with leaders throughout the Israeli government. It was truly a humbling experience that I’m honored to have partaken in.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand held a meeting with Jewish community leaders in Rockland County on Sunday, including elected officials, school officials, and leaders from Hatzolah and Chaverim to hear firsthand the needs of the rapidly expanding Orthodox Jewish population in the region. Over the course of the roughly hourlong meeting, Sen. Gillibrand listened to the concerns of the community leaders regarding aging infrastructure in Rockland County, the need for additional funding for private schools, as well as confronting the scourge of anti-Semitism, which has been particularly showing its ugly head in Ramapo.