Community Corner

Republican nominee for New York State Attorney General Saritha Komatireddy visited Kew Gardens Hills on Thursday afternoon, July 16, meeting with community leaders at Chazaq headquarters before walking along Main Street to speak with local merchants and residents.

Residents of Kew Gardens and Richmond Hill awoke Friday, July 31, to a series of anti-Israel messages scrawled across sidewalks, roadway surfaces, and lampposts at several points throughout the neighborhood.

 OU Kosher Warns of Reduced Availability as Agri Star Plans Its Recovery in Postville

A devastating fire at the Agri Star Meat & Poultry plant in Postville, Iowa, has disrupted one of the most important links in the American kosher food supply. The July 28 blaze caused extensive damage to the OU Kosher-certified facility, raising concerns about meat and poultry availability ahead of the fall Yom Tov season and leaving hundreds of local workers facing uncertainty.

For more than a decade, activists at Columbia University have tried to make the school a proving ground for the campaign to isolate Israel. There have been petitions, referendums, faculty campaigns, encampments, arrests, an occupied academic building, congressional hearings, and federal investigations. Through it all, one objective remained constant: pressure Columbia to divest from Israel and companies connected to the Jewish state.

For families throughout Fresh Meadows, Hillcrest, Jamaica Estates, and nearby Queens neighborhoods, Bagels & Co. on Union Turnpike is a familiar part of the local landscape. Customers stop in for breakfast, students come through after school, and neighbors recognize the faces behind the counter.

Women from across the community filled the Young Israel of Queens Valley on Tuesday evening, July 21, for the launch of Geula Wellness, a new Queens-based organization supporting mothers experiencing postpartum depression, anxiety, and other emotional challenges surrounding childbirth.