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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu grew up in West Jerusalem but spent his high...
The Crisis: Severe government sanctions have frozen millions of shekels in yeshivah funding and canceled essential family subsidies, threatening the economic baseline of Orthodox life in Eretz Yisrael.
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.
Following the passage of New York’s statewide Buffer Zone Bill, a coalition of 23 State Assemblymembers released a joint statement explaining their support for the measure and criticizing what they viewed as insufficient local protections for worshippers.
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.
American flags waved alongside Israeli flags as a diverse coalition of New Yorkers gathered near Gracie Mansion on Tuesday evening, May 26, for what organizers described as one of the largest demonstrations yet against rising anti-Semitism, extremism, and the policies of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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.
