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The Lev Aharon Community Food Pantry at 72^nd Avenue and Main Street in Kew Gardens Hills held a PPE giveaway with local elected officials on Tuesday afternoon, January 27. The location, a partnership of the Chazaq Organization and Met Council on Jewish Poverty, is distinguished as a center for vital communal resources. “With COVID concerns still a serious threat across the nation, the Chazaq staff undertook a comprehensive drive to distribute an array of personal protective equipment to our neighbors in Queens,” stated Rabbi Yaniv Meirov, CEO of the organization. “The involvement of our governmental affair bureau and the partnership of our representatives in lawmaking, underscores the need for our community members to take precautions when amongst others.”

The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2,000 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in matters of American public policy, this week castigated the ADL for repeating the same “misuse of anti-Semitism for partisan purposes” that CJV slammed last year, after the ADL again accused Fox News Host Tucker Carlson. According to a story in the Daily Beast, the ADL claimed that Carlson “echoed antisemitic tropes” when he asserted that George Soros wants a society that is “more dangerous [and] dirtier.”

Following Mayor Eric Adams speech outlining his plan to end gun violence, Met Council CEO David Greenfield released the following statement:

On Sunday, January 30, amid the aftermath of a snowstorm that battered New York, Sarah Huckabee Sanders partook in a fundraising effort for her run to be the next governor of Arkansas, a position once held by her father, Governor Mike Huckabee. The effort was the brainchild of Dr. Joe Frager, a longtime Jamaica Estates resident and QJL columnist.

Transformative gift to Rise Up campaign to fund Furst Hall renovation,
which will be renamed the Belz Building.

Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, announced this week that the Belz family of Memphis, Tennessee, has signed a $20 million gift agreement to launch a comprehensive renovation of the cornerstone academic building on Wilf Campus in Washington Heights. In recognition of this transformative gift, the building, currently known as Furst Hall, will be renamed the Belz Building. With the full support of the Furst family and the Sol and Hilda Furst Foundation, a permanent memorial to Sol and Hilda Furst will be established within the lobby of the Belz Building.

The Seventh of Adar was the day on which Moshe Rabbeinu was born, and also the day on which he died, exactly 120 years later. Tzadikim were often given the ability to completely live out their years. It is written that Moshe passed away through the “Kiss of Hashem.”