A U.S. schoolteacher donated $10,000 Thursday to improve security at Jerusalem’s kindergartens. Jane Grauer, a teacher at the Westchester Day School, collected some $300 from children in her kindergarten class, who each gave up one day’s worth of Chanukah gelt. She then collected additional donations from other schools and local synagogues.
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