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Traveling to Eretz Yisrael always carries with it unique feelings. As put eloquently by the taxi driver that drove me from my hotel to the airport for my return flight to the U.S.A.; “You’re not going home. You’re going to America. Eretz Yisrael is home!”
Recap: Libby tries to handle the difficult second-grade class. Two boys get into a fist fight and one boy is injured. Libby has to fill out an accident report. She feels terrible that it was during her class that he got hurt, and she’s sure also that she will be fired.
NEW YORK NEWS
New York Community Bank (NYCB) has acquired a substantial portion of the recently failed Signature Bank in a deal worth $2.7 billion, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The transaction includes NYCB acquiring $38.4 billion of the New York-based Signature Bank’s assets, which is around one-third of the bank’s $110 billion total assets prior to its failure. Starting on Monday, 40 of Signature Bank’s branches will be renamed to Flagstar Bank, which is a subsidiary of New York Community Bank. The FDIC added that around $60 billion in loans from Signature Bank will remain in receivership and will be sold at a later time. The acquisition of Signature Bank comes just days after Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) also collapsed, making it the second-largest collapse in U.S. history, while Signature Bank’s failure is now ranked as the third-largest in U.S. history.
Recap: Libby enjoys Shabbos with her two foster children and her niece. After Shabbos, Mrs. Kahn calls to let her know that Sabrina’s and Marnie’s mother is planning to come visit them before Pesach. Libby doesn’t want her to come.
Students from Two Dozen Local Colleges ‘Hack it Together’ in Annual Women’s Programming Competition
More than 100 students from 24 colleges in New York and New Jersey gathered at Touro’s Lander College for Women/The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School (LCW) last month for the college’s annual all-female Hackathon. Over the course of 12 hours, the students collaborated with teammates in a competition to solve real-world problems faced by companies and organizations of all sizes by utilizing coding and creative programming skills.
