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The District 24 special election is now less than three weeks away, and US Rep. Tom Suozzi has announced his endorsement of Dilip Nath in the noteworthy race for the Central Queens council seat left vacant when Rory Lancman moved on to assist Governor Cuomo as the Special Counsel for Ratepayer Protection. Nath has also found the support of elected officials including former Council Member Elizabeth Crowley, Assembly Member Cathy Nolan, and State Senators John Liu and Roxanna Persaud.

 Baruch Dayan HaEmes. In the days before the pandemic, Reb Mechel Schiffenbauer, a"h, gave the Daf Yomi shiur in the beis medrash at Agudath Israel of America's national headquarters in Manhattan at 42 Broadway. This photo depicts the widespread acceptance of the class. Of note, one of the shiur’s attendees on this particular day was Chaver Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rosh HaYeshiva of Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia. Reb Mechel, a talmid chacham of great magnitude, gave the shiur at the Agudah for over twenty years, in addition to delivering two other Daf Yomi shiurim daily.

Y'hi zicro baruch.

A new Democratic club wanting racial and economic justice, transparency, and inclusiveness, had its first meeting on Thursday, January 14. This QJL reporter was dropped from the Zoom meeting right before it began. Nonetheless, the QJL reporter has a recording of the complete meeting.

Participants from all across the United States and Israel went online to pay their respects to Moreinu HaRav Mordechai Shraga Feivel ben Shmuel Shabsai HaLevi, Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld zt”l, on the shloshim of his p’tirah, January 12.

In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hundreds of volunteers joined Met Council for its annual MLK Day of Service and signed up for shifts at Met Council's Greenpoint Fulfillment Center to help package emergency food deliveries for Holocaust survivors on the January 18 holiday. Four 90-minute socially distanced shifts were filled with immediate demand as New Yorkers proudly signed up to work the national holiday in service of their neighbors.

Manashe Khaimov, MSW, Speaks with the Queens Jewish Link

Why are we called Bukharian if we are from Central Asia? Are we Sephardic or not? Are our traditions ours or were they adopted from the local communities? How did we end up in Central Asia?