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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community Teachers often write things in end-of-term reports like “progress has been made” or “there has...
Hello, QJL readers. Before we get started, wishing all a Kasivah Vichasimah Tovah! We should all have a meaningful year, full of bracha and smachot!
Recap: Ezra’s aunt advises him how to deal with the bully Kalman. Ezra still needs to come up with an idea for the writing club project. He starts reading the journal again.
Recap: Mr. Corman doesn’t need Sender for the time being, so Bubby lets him go back to the Wright brothers. Wilbur had a successful visit in France, and they want to do more practice with the glider. While they’re in the shop, Wilbur notices an old enemy, Oliver Crook Haigh. He tells Sender to not let that man into the shop.
NEW YORK NEWS
Lee Zeldin has tightened the race for Governor to just 4 points, according to a Trafalgar Group Survey. Zeldin, who is trailing incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul, touted the poll results on Twitter. “This latest poll shows that New Yorkers are starting to see who the real Kathy Hochul is, a corrupt, out-of-touch, weak Governor driving the state in the wrong direction,” he said. Hochul is hitting back, trying to tie Zeldin to former President Trump. “Lee Zeldin continues to embrace the most far-right fringe elements of his party,” she wrote on Twitter, “and he wants to be Governor of New York. I won’t let him drag our state backward.”
NEW YORK NEWS
The Board of Regents approved a new set of regulations that require private schools to prove that they are teaching the same core subjects that public schools are. The unanimous vote occurred without debate. The decision, which comes after increased scrutiny on Ultra-Orthodox schools, requires that the “substantially equivalent” education in math, reading, writing, science, and history must occur in English and taught by a competent teacher, although that teacher does not need to receive a license by the state. A group of rabbis are threatening to take the state to court, basing their case on a 1972 Supreme Court precedent which allowed religious exemptions for school curriculum.
On the Saturday night before Rosh HaShanah in 1917, the words of one German rabbi, Joseph Carlebach, evoked a powerful message.
