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Fairytale Preschool Center has happily been a staple of the diverse Rego Park community offering a vast array of creative early childhood educational services. With the start of 2020, a unique opportunity with 10 limited openings is now available for low-income parents of children ages 2 through 4 to place their youth in a local caring center-based environment staffed with certified educationalists and instructors at the competitive weekly fee make-up of home-based programs. The 7-hour initiative is designed to start at 9 am and commence at 4 pm giving working moms and dads the possibility to sustain regular work times at the low cost of only $850 monthly. Additional add-on amenities are available on a case-by-case basis to further your preschooler’s social skills.

“He relates his words to Jacob. His statutes and judgments to Israel. He did not do so for any other nation; such judgments-they know them not. Hallelu_ah.” Tehillim (Psalms) 147.

Steven Spielberg’s film “Jaws,” forever changed how people approach a beach vacation. Nothing like a shark to take the joy out of some long-planned relaxation. People who go to a hotel or program for Passover have been planning for months for their “vacation of the year.” These programs have a high price tag and consumers have high expectations, but every year there are disaster stories that explode across social media. While there hasn’t been a reported Passover shark incident, some of the actual program fiascos can be described as stranger than fiction.

Many things have changed in the past twenty-five years, but one thing has not: One Israel Fund’s mission. For the past quarter-century, One Israel Fund has worked tirelessly on behalf of the residents of Judea and Samaria. These regions are comprised of an extraordinary collection of people, over 460,000+ residents who are wholly dedicated to life in their Biblical Heartland. But these extraordinary people deserve ordinary lives, furnished with the integral services that the rest of the country is privy to - such as security, healthcare, and education. Since these communities do not receive much, if any support from most of the major Jewish philanthropic organizations, One Israel Fund was created to fulfill in these needs.

Recap: Bayla and Sophie become friends. Sophie refuses to do any exercises to help herself get better. Bayla worries how she will be able to help Sophie to walk again.

When Bilam went to curse klal Yisroel, one of the things he wanted to say was “kallem” which translates to “destroy them.” The Tosafos in Avodah Zarah 4b brings that the letters of this word are kof-lamed-mem, which represent kaved, lev, and then moach. The curse would have been that klal Yisroel should be led by their desires and emotion. Hashem turned it around and made it melech which is spelled mem-lamed-kof and represents moach, lev, and kaved. We are blessed to be a melech when our emotions and desires are led by our intellect. The Torah is telling us that in order to become tzadikim, we must rule over our emotions and desires with our minds. I would suggest that one effective way of accomplishing this feat is by practicing mindfulness.