Community Corner

 Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. welcomed elected officials, communal leaders, faith organizations, performers, and residents to the Helen Marshall Cultural Center at Borough Hall on Monday, July 27, for a borough-wide celebration marking America’s 250^th anniversary.

An hour before the Misaskim Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on Monday, July, 13, a small group of dedicated volunteers was already inside Ateres Chaya Rivka, a brand-new community simchah hall on Main Street, just off 68th Drive in Kew Gardens Hills. The elite contingent comprised Misaskim of Queens’ inaugural Emergency Disaster/Recovery class, tasked with chesed shel emes at a tragic scene most hope never to encounter.

 At 11:45 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, footage reviewed by the Queens Jewish Link shows a man sprinting past the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates and flinging a substance toward the shul’s entrance.

The beis midrash at Bais Yosef D’Ulem–Rabbi Friedman Shul was filled to capacity on Tuesday evening, July 14, as men from 17 neighborhood shuls and learning programs gathered for the KGH Rosh Chodesh Yarchei Kallah. The monthly initiative unites the Kew Gardens Hills Torah community for learning, this month with a six-page mar’ei m’komos packet and a Nine Days pareve buffet from Naomi’s Pizza.

A few weeks before the p’tirah of Arlene Ross a”h, I enjoyed a slice with her at Naomi’s Pizza in Kew Gardens Hills. We debated politics, as we often did. Arlene did not argue simply to win. She argued because she believed something had to be done – and because she expected the people around her to help do it.

He was loud on television and relentless off it. To understand what America and the Jewish community lost, look past the microphone

In the final weeks of his life, Senator Lindsey Graham was laying the groundwork for what he hoped would become a historic agreement establishing formal relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.