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Brooklyn, NY – VIN News has confirmed that Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel of Flatbush located at 1271 E 35th Street is closing down temporarily due to to a confirmed 8th grader being diagnosed with the swine flu.
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According to yeshiva administrator the school will remain closed until future notice. The closures are self imposed, and were not requested by the Dept. of Health.
I think everyone is overeacting. Swine flu is a strain of dlu like any other.It is not life threatening under normal circustances. Anything to keep our minds off the economy.
Wait for the fall seoson!
So, now that we have to prepare for Shevous (by studying the Torah) the Yatzer Hora is trying to make it difficult for us.
hey …why not give the hardworkin kids a lil vacation???
Makas Devver, I assume that the flu pandemic of 1918 was also not life threatening and that people were overeacting. This is a scary time and its only the beginning wait until the fall ehen the flu really peaks. Hashem Yirochem.
heard masores, magen david and yeshiva of flatbush shutting down too. i am a teacher and i dotn work in any of these places but i have students with siblings or parents in all! this is why schools need to shut down.
I don’t like the look of things
You are allowed to be mechalel shabbos to save a Jewish life, closing a school for a few days is definitely within the realms of pikuach nefesh.
Wow! This scary!! What can we do as a precaution???? And if someone in the family has it then the whole family can catch it, then yankel goes in shuel the next day, moishe goes to work and so on!!!
My son is a 1st grader in Tiferes Yisroel, my daughter attends PPY and was instructed to stay home because she has a sibling who attends YTY..
Hopefully this wont turn into a real pandemic.
there is a boys cheder in williamsburg that has a confirmed case of swine flu. the boys in that class were sent home. waiting for further updates.
re 12: agreed! well put!
masores officially shut down until after yt
masores just confirmed they are closing due to possible swine flu cases.
The rebono shel olim has his ways,,,,,,aguda was so worried that the schools and yeshivas will be closed as as a result of asemblywomans markeys bill against child molestors and their protectors……
what does hashem do………………..closes them with a flue
the mesaage hashem is giving the rabbonin AND THE AGUDA …………. he is in charge
lets rally behind the markey bill
May we only hear Besoros Tovos. BTW, it’s erev shavuos wen Hashem gave the torah He healed all. So too now He will heal us.
It seems that as the day goes by most of our yeshivas and girl’s schools will follow suit as our community is very different than the public school world. Our kids have siblings in other schools and yeshivas the parents go to one shul and the kids at times will go to another shul we intermingle in our whole community.
krasne cheder in williamsburg is being shut down tomorrow due to swine flu case
Prospect Park Yeshiva
I have to say that this swine flu outbreak just exposed how weak and unresponsive the health offices/nurses are. The only way to get somewhere in containing this outbreak would be to close “all” schools private and public. This worked in mexico ,but one thing is sure that shutting one school here another one there while sibling and parents continue to spread it is just inefective.
What a bout the loss of limud torah. Clearly, there exists no emergency situation that should cause massive lack of learning torah, certainly in the hours leading up to Matan TOrah. THis is nothing but immature reaction.
All these schools just had shabatons, so if one kid had it……
Perhaps this is a message that we take our health for granted.
Guys do you think you know any better then the people ie. pediatricians and poskim that were asked what to do in the case of these schools just let the higher ups / more knowledgeables take care of it. your job is just to listen.
right i agree abt that. i meant more in terms of ppl saying its no more dangerous than regular flu, but reg flu there are meds that can help, with this there isnt and thats why theyre concerned
there is no need for overreacting,being worried or nervous is like a rocking chair-it might keep you busy for a while but it wont get you anywhere!!(van wilder)
The same people knocking the yeshivos for being too nervous and closing for no reason would be the same ones knocking the yeshivos for not caring about our kids if they chose decided to stay open.
great no finals for now
i think all parents should be very cautious about the swine flu it could be very serious and i say that all schools should close down for a few days until it gets better, hashem is just trying to show us that we arent doing good things it is mamesh like a mageifah and we should all daven and learn and hashem will stop the swine flu from coming on the jewish people. thank you for reading