Emet Outreach has launched EmetTorah.com, a new online resource to educate and inspire the community with rich Torah content. Designed as a virtual library, the site offers a comprehensive showcase of classes and drashos given by Emet’s dynamic roster of educators and notable guest speakers. Visitors can access motivational, relevant, and informative classes in a user-friendly format. The site allows viewers to experience and share in the warmth, knowledge, and personal connection that are the hallmark of Emet’s Jewish outreach. Most importantly, this initiative makes Emet inspiration easily accessible 24/7 with maximum impact for the thousands of Emet students and alumni.

The time after lighting the Chanukah menorah is a beautiful time, very special and full of potential for growing. There is a s’gulah from the Ramban for after lighting the Chanukah lights to say T’hilim p’rakim 90 and 91 on all eight days of Chanukah in the following order:

Avi Schick, a partner of the New York affiliate of Troutman Pepper, is also a former deputy attorney general for the State of New York. Schick is a well-versed attorney in both criminal and civil investigations, with a primary focus in First Amendment issues. Schick and his team took on this case pro bono to ensure religious freedoms. The Queens Jewish Link discussed religious advocacy and the future of the case.

As the crippling economic effects of COVID-19 continue to linger, leaving many storeowners on the brink of despair, the Kew Gardens section of Queens has been hit with an uneasy increase in local crime. Within 48 short hours of this past Monday afternoon, three stores within blocks of one another were targeted.