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(From reader) The Pittsburgh Carnegie Science Center is a fantastic place for young ages through teens. With a group rate Monday – Friday the admission will be only be $8 per person for kids over 3 through adult. Admission is normally $11.95 for ages 3-12 and $18.95 for 13 and up. I am trying to put together a group for Thursday, December 18, 2014. Please contact Esther Ginsburg if you would like to join. (216) 458-1895. Please note – anyone who wants to be part of the group must pre-pay in advance. The Science Center will only take 1 check per group.

(Repost from last year this time) Just recently a young man was hit by a car crossing a street at night in Beachwood. Despite the fact that he crossed in a crosswalk, it was just too hard to see someone dressed in black at night. At the encouragement of his family, our community is being asked to be more vigilant about wearing reflectors. Sponsored belts can be purchased for $3 at the local seforim stores. Marc’s and discount stores frequently sell very inexpensive reflective vests. Flashing lights and flashlights are only a few dollars. Just recently Lakewood launched a “Shabbos of Reflection” after 101 pedestrians were struck, 5 fatally in 2012. Maybe it is time for a little more “reflection” in Cleveland too? Well, Chaverim has plans underway for a whole campaign soon! Click here to view a pamphlet which outlines the halachos of wearing a reflector in a place where there is no eruv (say you are traveling outside of the Cleveland eruv on Shabbos or do not carry).

(Plain Dealer)(Ed: The purpose of this posting is not to promote speeding in case it was not clear.)

Linndale long has had a reputation as the speed trap king in Greater Cleveland. Bratenahl and North Randall police are among the other big ticket writers considering the size of each village.

Are there speed traps on your way to work, or on your drives around town to shop and play?

Reporter Patrick Cooley of the Northeast Ohio Media Group tracked down traffic ticket records for Cuyahoga County communities and came up with a ranking, based on the tickets written and the population of each town.

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(Cleveland Jewish News)

During shiva after the murder of her husband in a terrorist attack on their neighborhood synagogue in Jerusalem Nov. 18, Chaya Levine – formerly Marilyn Markovitz of University Heights – joined the three other women whose husbands had been killed in the attack and sent out an appeal for love and unity between families, communities and all ethnic groups.

“It is so painful, we are all good friends,” Levine, a Hebrew Academy of Cleveland alumna and 1978 graduate of Yavne Academy, told the Cleveland Jewish News after getting up from shiva. “We asked for a Shabbos of unity, to give charity and any acts of kindness people can do.”

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