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The two roshei yeshivah of Yeshivas Mordechai HaTzadik preparing to give out Purim gelt to all the bachurim who came to learn.

Laughter and smiles filled the Simchah Hall at Yeshivas Ohr HaChaim for the annual Purim mesibah. Bachurim clad in unique costumes, wigs, and hats joined alongside hanhalas haYeshivah for the enthusiastic festivities that included the leibedik music of Yossi Cohen. The talmidim were joined by Rav Doniel Lander, Rosh HaYeshivah, Rav Mordechai Finkelman, Mashgiach Ruchani, and Rabbi Yehoshua Weiss, a magid shiur. In the spirit of Purim, all joined in fast-paced rekidos, staples of a yeshivah mesibah.

Purim 2023 at the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates saw the community’s largest and most festive celebration ever! Purim night saw three packed minyanim for Megillah reading for all ages with Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner presiding in the main sanctuary! An outdoor petting zoo and “Mordechai Pony Ride” sponsored by All My Children Daycare greeted young children as they arrived.

In this week’s parshah, parshiyos VaYakhel-P’kudei, Moshe Rabbeinu gathers B’nei Yisrael to tell them about the construction of the Mishkan (the Tabernacle). This appears somewhat strange, for at no other time when Moshe Rabbeinu conveyed a mitzvah does the Torah tell us that he gathered all the people together.

The Chazaq JWave Teens Division Boys has seen unprecedented growth in the observance of mitzvos over the last year. Led by the Director of JWave, Rabbi Avraham Walkin, and the rest of the rabbis on staff, the program has seen an incredible increase in the commitment of its members to living a life in accordance with the Torah’s teachings.

YU Opens First-of-its-Kind Security Operations Center to Train the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Experts

New York, N.Y. – March 9, 2023 – Responding to the urgent need for next-gen cybersecurity experts who will make the nation and the world safer, Yeshiva University’s Katz School of Science and Health opened a new Security Operations Center (SOC) to provide an unprecedented level of hands-on, real-world training and cyber-defense skills.