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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community When Mrs. Porter heard a knock at the door of her Baltimore home one evening at suppertime, she...
On Tuesday night, October 31, community women streamed into the Young Israel of Queens Valley to hear a shiur by Jackie Bitton, well-known speaker, hosted by the Women’s League of the shul.
On Sunday evening, October 22, Let’s Get Real With Coach Menachem featured Rabbi Doniel Katz, visionary educator and internationally sought-after speaker, sharing a virtual emergency emunah workshop.
On Thursday evening, October 26, a large group of community women gathered at the Young Israel of Queens Valley for a challah bake led by Mrs. Rena Greenberg, well-known morah and speaker. The challah bake was for a z’chus for the soldiers in Israel and also in memory of Rena’s daughter, Bryna Brachah bas Aryeh Yaakov a”h.
On Wednesday evening, October 11, Rabbi Fischel Schachter, well-known speaker, storyteller, and author, shared divrei chizuk at Yeshiva Ohr Yitzchok in Brooklyn. He shared a quote of what President George W. Bush said after 9/11. “The sun has set on a different America.” Rav Schachter said, “This Simchas Torah, the sun set on a different klal Yisrael.” He said that today it’s a different world. It’s out of the range of what we can absorb.
On Sunday night, October 15, Let’s Get Real With Coach Menachem featured a supportive virtual shiur featuring Rabbi YY Jacobson, well-known speaker, Dean of yeshiva.net and maggid shiur at Beis Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, Dr. Akiva Perlman, LCSW, PhD, and Clinical Director of Social work at ODA, and Mr. Eli Beer, founder of United Hatzalah of Israel.
On Monday evening, October 16, the Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld Educational Center organized a virtual lecture with Rabbi Zvi Gluck, CEO of Amudim. Amudim focuses on helping children suffering from trauma in the United States and in Eretz Yisrael.
