The 8-year-old girl, whose skull was fractured after being struck by a rock through a school bus window on the New Jersey Turnpike, has been released from the hospital.
She is “now resting and recovering in the comfort of her own home,” Rabbi Chaim Hagler, head of school at Yeshivat Noam, a Modern Orthodox day school in New Jersey, wrote to parents.
“Seeing her reach this milestone so quickly after her surgery is a testament to her resilience and the power of the many tefillot,” or prayers, “said on her behalf,” the rabbi wrote, adding that the school is “overjoyed to share the wonderful news.”
State police arrested a 40-year-old man, who is suspected of that and other rock-throwing attacks. A spokesman for the school told JNS that the school bus had no external markings suggesting that Jewish children were aboard.
The township of Teaneck, N.J., recognized Hagler for “his leadership, true compassion for the family and child, and cooperation throughout the investigation process.”
