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 Baruch Dayan HaEmes. In the days before the pandemic, Reb Mechel Schiffenbauer, a"h, gave the Daf Yomi shiur in the beis medrash at Agudath Israel of America's national headquarters in Manhattan at 42 Broadway. This photo depicts the widespread acceptance of the class. Of note, one of the shiur’s attendees on this particular day was Chaver Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rosh HaYeshiva of Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia. Reb Mechel, a talmid chacham of great magnitude, gave the shiur at the Agudah for over twenty years, in addition to delivering two other Daf Yomi shiurim daily.

Y'hi zicro baruch.

The District 24 special election is now less than three weeks away, and US Rep. Tom Suozzi has announced his endorsement of Dilip Nath in the noteworthy race for the Central Queens council seat left vacant when Rory Lancman moved on to assist Governor Cuomo as the Special Counsel for Ratepayer Protection. Nath has also found the support of elected officials including former Council Member Elizabeth Crowley, Assembly Member Cathy Nolan, and State Senators John Liu and Roxanna Persaud.

In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hundreds of volunteers joined Met Council for its annual MLK Day of Service and signed up for shifts at Met Council's Greenpoint Fulfillment Center to help package emergency food deliveries for Holocaust survivors on the January 18 holiday. Four 90-minute socially distanced shifts were filled with immediate demand as New Yorkers proudly signed up to work the national holiday in service of their neighbors.

There are countless compliments and praises of the sacred and holy book of T’hilim. Our rabbis and great sages teach us that we can save many people from sickness or anything bad by just reciting T’hilim.

A new Democratic club wanting racial and economic justice, transparency, and inclusiveness, had its first meeting on Thursday, January 14. This QJL reporter was dropped from the Zoom meeting right before it began. Nonetheless, the QJL reporter has a recording of the complete meeting.

A mob, including a man with a tee shirt saying Camp Auschwitz, incited by the President of the United States, ransacked the US Capitol. Some of them may well have been the same “good people” who marched with torches through Charlottesville shouting, “Jews will not replace us.” As rioters trashed the Capitol, carrying the Confederate battle flags, others placed that same symbol of racism on the Museum of Jewish Heritage here in New York.