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 New York City and the surrounding region were buried under record-breaking snowfall this week, with accumulations exceeding 30 inches in parts of the five boroughs and up to 40 inches in some suburbs.

Recap: Rikki is knocked over on the skating rink during the skatathon and has to be taken to the emergency room.

 A siren blared. Everyone in the rink was staring at Rikki. Two men came and guided her onto a stretcher. “Ouch! My leg is killing me,” Rikki said.

Celebrating Torah Leadership, Mesorah and Community

For more than 140 years, Yeshiva University has fulfilled the charge of L’hagdil Torah

u’L’ha’adira—educating young men in the values of Torah – affirming a legacy that continues from generation to generation.

On a high-profile mission to consolidate Wall Street support and advance Argentina's economic agenda, President Javier Milei will join Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, as part of the Great Conversations Series—the University’s flagship forum for substantive engagement with global leaders and change-makers on the defining issues of our time.

Purim is the ideal time to highlight the role of heroic Jewish women in history, with Esther having the leading role in saving the Jewish nation from a genocidal plot. Written by Julie Esther Silverstein and Tami Schlossberg Pruwer, Chutzpah Girls has 100 examples of Jewish women, each with a descriptive page and illustration. The book was published in late 2024, but I only found out about it recently at my public library in the year of bat mitzvahs in my daughter’s grade.

New York

 A Columbia University anti-Israel student group posted “Marg bar Amrika,” which means “Death to America” in Farsi, on social media after U.S. and Israeli forces killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a joint strike. The group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), posted on X that the platform forced them to delete the post to regain account access, adding “the sentiment still stands.”