Community Corner

According to the midrash on Megillas Esther, before Esther HaMalkah went in uninvited to Achashveirosh, she spent three days fasting, wearing sack-cloth, and praying by way of the window (toward Yerushalayim). She pleaded and cried for Hashem’s mercy, moving from window to window in the house of Achashveirosh (Esther Rabbah 8:7). Why did Esther HaMalkah move from window to window? A possible explanation is: Just as each window offered a different view on the grounds surrounding the palace, the t’filos that she made during those three days took on various angles and forms.

On Motza’ei Shabbos, Parshas Mishpatim, a festive melaveh malkah was held to mark Congregaion Ohel Yitzchok’s 38 years of continued contributions to the Kew Gardens Hills area. The evening featured a siyum haShas on behalf of the shul’s Daf HaYomi chaburah and was dedicated in memory of founding member Dr. Tali Skoczylas a”h.

These days you can invent an app, start a blog, and sell stuff online; but if you are a DJ, you are going to need to start with one track. If this melody is real enough and honest enough, and if it is made of everything that has made you, including where you come from, who you knew, and your overall history, then you may have a chance at connecting with everyone else, and maybe that is precisely your ticket to everything that is to come.

Chazaq’s Shaping Lives Sunday School impacts the lives of hundreds of public school children every week by providing learning and fun in 6 locations!

On the afternoon of Wednesday, February 19, residents and business owners were put into a frenzy after construction crews working along Main Street mistakenly struck a high-pressure gas main, causing widespread street closures and evacuations in the Kew Gardens Hills neighborhood.

Anger and frustration greeted Mayor Bill de Blasio at his Town Hall meeting at Russell Sage Junior High School in Forest Hills on February 19.