It is with immense sadness that Matzav.com reports the tragic passing of nine-year-old Hirsh Meilich Grossman z”l of Boro Park.
Hirsh Meilich passed away in a drowning incident at Sahara Sam’s Oasis Outdoor and Indoor Water Park in New Jersey while on a trip with his class.
Medics transported Hirsh Meilich to Virtua Voorhees Hospital on Bowman Drive in Voorhees Township, NJ, but resuscitation efforts were to no avail.
The circumstances of the incident are being investigated by the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office.
Hirsh Meilich was a son of R’ Moshe and Sheindel Grossman, a prominent Belzer family.
The park had been rented out a consortium of camps, with about 750 campers participating in the trip.

All are asked to daven for a refuah sheleimah for Rav Chaim Dov Keller, rosh yeshiva of Telshe Yeshiva in Chicago, who has undergone surgery.
Rav Keller was born in New York City and subsequently attended the Telshe Yeshiva after it was established in Cleveland, Ohio by Rav Chaim Mordechai Katz and Rav Eliyahu Meir Bloch. Rav Keller became a close talmid of Rav Bloch. Rav Keller later married a daughter of Rav Leizer Levin zt”l, longtime rov of Detroit.
Together with his brother-in-law, Rav Avrohom Chaim Levin, Rav Keller was hand-picked by the leadership of Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland to oversee the establishment of a similar yeshiva in Chicago in 1960.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Rabbi Mordechai Kriger z”l of Lawrence, NY. He was 82 years old when he was niftar on Friday.
Born on June 29, 1937, Reb Mordechai was a noted tomeich Torah and talmid chochom. A true ben Torah throughout his life, Reb Mordechai felt most comfortable in a bais medrash, learning and plumbing the depths of the Yam Hatalmud.