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 The Cardiology Team at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens recently marked the 25^th anniversary of the arrival of the cardiac catheterization program at the hospital. The original “cardiac cath” team reunited and joined NewYork-Presbyterian Queens leadership to commemorate the occasion. Pictured, from left to right: Dolores Venditti, RN, Lorraine Monaghan, RN, Gregory Gustafson, MD, current cardiac catheterization program director Marie Claude Boileau, RN, Edward Deptulski (radiology technician), Joseph Cooke, MD, chief of medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, and Amir Jaffer, MD, chief medical officer.

Songs like a prayer filled the air at the Beth Gavriel Center on Wednesday evening, January 8, where Chazaq and the Breslov Research Institute hosted a magnificent hilula in memory of Rav Natan of Breslov, also known as Reb Noson. Reb Noson was the chief disciple and scribe of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. Reb Noson is credited with preserving, promoting, and expanding the Breslov movement after the Rebbe’s death.

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Celebrates Siyum On Sefer B’reishis

(Please recite Psalms 20, 30, 88, 121, and 130.)

Chaim Yehudi ben Leah

In Parshas Sh’mos, Hashem for the first time informs Moshe Rabbeinu that He will strengthen Pharaoh’s heart, and Pharaoh will repeatedly refuse to release the Jewish people from Egypt.

Inspired by the 9^th Siyum Hashas on April 26, 1990, on April 27, 1990, the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills began its own Daf Yomi study group which has met each day since then at 5:30am (7:00am on Shabbos and 6:00am on Sunday). On Saturday night January 4, 2020, the group celebrated the completion of its fourth cycle at a melaveh malkah in the shul. While there were many fewer than the 90,000 people who attended the  January 1,2020 siyum at MetLife Stadium, the Simcha Room was filled with Dafi Yomi participants, their families, and friends. The program, organized and MC’d by Richie Spierer paid tribute to Dr. Mordechai Koenigsberg who has been a maggid shiur since the shiur’s inception, Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt who shared maggid shiur duties with Dr. Koenigsberg in the early years of the program, Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld who encouraged the formation of the group, Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld who has led the shiur when Dr. Koenigsberg has been absent for a family simcha or a medical conference,  and rabbis Israel Wind, Yaakov Abramowitz, Ephraim Glatt, and Yossi Jacobs who also filled in for Dr. Koenisgberg over the past thirty years. Before Dr. Koenigsberg completed the final page of Shas and recited the hadran, family members spoke about Mr. Al Angerman, Mr. Leon Blatt, Dr. Herman Kelman, Dr. Simon Lopata, Mr. Jack Nayberg, Rabbi George Rushfield, and Mr. Alvin Silver, stalwart members of the Daf Yomi group who have passed away.