BROOKLYN (VINnews) — Every parents worst nightmare ended with good news after 7-year-old Yosef Shapiro was found safe after being missing for approximately 6 hours.
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Hundreds of volunteers from the Brooklyn Jewish community conducted a search operation, after a Yosef was reported missing on Wednesday afternoon.
Yosef went missing in Canarsie at Seaview Ave and East 80 Street, while participating in a day camp trip.
According to reports, the daycamp loaded the campers back on the buses at approximately 3:00 PM, and Yosef never made it onto the bus.
A $35,000 reward was offered by Jewish organizations to anyone who provided Yosef’s whereabouts.
At approximately 9:20 PM Yosef was found in the forest.
As a father, my heart goes out to this family. I can’t imagine how they must be feeling tonight. If you have any information, please contact the NYPD. Let’s bring this boy home. https://t.co/rqWlpWX5Cv
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) August 12, 2021
Thank you to all the volunteers, thank God for a great ending. I will however say that little boys aren’t the only ones that should need our rachmonis and kindness. There are many people that are walking around like lost neshomos, that have done nothing wrong other than to be in a situation not of their choosing. Please have a little rachmonis on hashem’s creations and in return may hashem lookout for us.
I guess it all happened in Elul so Hashem can unite the Jewish nation and appreciate their deeds for a bountiful and blessed new year. Amen.
The best news in a long time, such a sweet face this Yiddisha child.
!מי כעמך ישראל
במקום שאין אנשים השתדל להיות איש״
Instead of waiting around with everyone else, he took initiative and went to look on his own for the child, that’s why the child was found sooner.
I think the biggest hashgocha protis is that of all people searching this guy had the commanding officers phone number and was able get recourses there right away.
This morning I was at a kiddish and someone started talking, and giving his spin about this story. Here are some facts. I personally spoke with one of the head-staff members of this daycamp. Everything was done properly. A roll call was done before boarding the bus and that was when it was noticed that a boy was missing. In fact some of the headstaff who were on the trip stayed behind to continue the search. One of the news stations said he was missing 10 hours that’s totally impossible. The boys first left to the park after lunch which is after 1:pm The six hour time frame he was ,missing is more correct. Some guy started complaining about supervision. The fact is, you don’t need a chaperone for each daycamper. There was the required amount of supervision for the amount of boys there. Finally the fact the media didn’t make this a front page story shows the everything was done correctly.
Extremely nice support from our community – for a 6 year old look how much we do and extort energy. However, what happened to saving hundreds of lives by just wearing a darn mask. How come we suffered 4 x the deaths in our community as opposed to others. With so many deaths can it not motivate us to do a little things like social distancing and wearing a mask in shuls and in simchas?
ANSWER Seem we will do anything and everything for someone else….as long as it does not effect our own lives or our conveniences.
Such happy news! Let’s hope we continue doing everything possible to save every life by following everything the doctors tell us to do.