Community Corner

Rain didn’t deter the determined runners and walkers on Monday, May 25, Memorial Day, as they gathered at the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates for the annual L’Chaim 5K Run & Walk for Israel. As always, the Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center served as the main sponsor. Boots for Israel – a chesed organization that has sent 52,000 pairs of new boots with personalized notes to Israeli soldiers – was also set up at the event.

When swastikas began appearing across Queens – spray-painted on synagogues, schools and homes – Daniel Rosen, president and co-founder of IMPACT, knew the Jewish community could not stay silent.

Queens officials are stepping up their response to rising anti-Semitism, with District Attorney Melinda Katz, Congresswoman Grace Meng, Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, and City Councilwoman Lynn Schulman outlining new efforts after visiting Congregation Machane Chodosh in Forest Hills multiple times following the May 5 Nazi graffiti attack. More Nazi graffiti hit Forest Park and Highland Park on Sunday, May 10.

Atidaynu Students Celebrate Mother’s Day Through Fragrance, Creativity, and Heartfelt Appreciation

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Some gifts are bought. Some are wrapped. Some are placed in a bag with tissue paper and a ribbon.

Seeing lonely and isolated Jews, “with family or not,” spurred Rebbetzin Mushky Mendelson of Congregation Machane Chodosh in Forest Hills to create the Central Queens Jewish Community Circle (CQJCC) in 2019.

On May 3, 2026, Yeshiva University hosted Antisemitism in the United States Today: Current Social Science Research, a landmark, allday conference that brought together some of the nation’s most influential scholars to confront contemporary antisemitism through a social science lens. Cosponsored by YU’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, the conference set a new standard in the effort to tackle antisemitism, directly addressing urgent challenges such as online bigotry and bias on college campuses.