In Parshas Chayei Sarah (24:1), it says that Avraham was old – ba ba’yamim – and Hashem blessed him ba’kol (“VaShem beirach es Avraham ba’kol”). If we look at Avraham Avinu’s life, we see that he had many challenges and was constantly being tested by Hashem. What is this mysterious ba’kol (“with everything”) that Hashem blessed Avraham Avinu with?

This past Monday evening, October 25, members of Chaverim of Queens joined City Council Candidate Joann Ariola for a meet and greet. The members spent considerable time hearing about Ariola’s vision to overcome her Leftist contender. The members also shared details of their volunteer efforts throughout Queens and within the 32nd Council District.

Daily Giving, a unique effort in which one can guarantee himself/herself a mitzvah every day by automatically donating one dollar to tz’dakah, has reached another major milestone. The organization has signed up more than 8,000 members who give charity together each day. Daily Giving is now scheduled to donate almost $3 million to its beneficiary nonprofit organizations over the next 12 months.

One of the deadliest single massacres in the history of the Holocaust, the Babyn Yar mass killing committed by the Nazis in Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 29 and 30, 1941, heartlessly stole the lives of more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children. Standing in solidarity with Queens’ Jewish and Ukrainian communities, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. traveled to Ukraine earlier this month to participate in a series of events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the massacre.