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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community Recap:Mr. Greenspan, Zeidy’s friend, drives Akiva to shul for his bar mitzvah lesson. He gives...
Thanks to enormous interest, Yeshiva University’s Open House for women on Nov. 12 was a huge success.
Recap: The men from KKK are looking for Hope. She spots them when she’s in the park with Bonnie and Rivkah and her sister. She quickly pulls everyone into the playhouse and doesn’t explain. She’s hiding from the men. She hears them talking about not finding her and their determination to keep looking. After they finally leave, she rushes back with Bonnie to the Bowers’ house.
NEW YORK NEWS
Federal agents conducted a raid on the home of Brianna Suggs, a prominent fundraiser and confidante to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Mayor Adams abruptly canceled a White House meeting and returned to New York amid the investigation. Suggs, who works as a campaign consultant for Adams, is associated with fundraising efforts and lobbying for a real estate client.
Recap: Hope takes Bonnie to the park, and she catches a glimpse of a white Cadillac. She realizes that it’s her parents’ car, which was stolen by the KKK. She tells Rivkah that they have to leave the park.
A couple of years ago, I wrote about an imagined future for Iraq in which Rabbi Paysach Krohn leads Jewish heritage tours of Pumbedisa and Sura, with the same descriptive expertise as his tours of Poland and kivrei tzadikim closer to home in Queens. Unfortunately, this hypothetical learning experience has yet to become reality. Likewise, the entirety of Eretz Yisrael has not been brought under Jewish control, with Gaza as the hornet’s nest of terrorism that kidnaps and murders Israelis and rains rockets on population centers. But what if the near future made it possible for Jews to visit Gaza safely as tourists? What would they see?
NEW YORK NEWS
New York Governor Kathy Hochul visited Cornell University in response to online threats of violence against Jewish students and institutions, condemning the hate speech and assuring safety measures. The threats were made on the Greekrank website, and Jewish students quickly reported them, leading to a swift police response and increased security. Governor Hochul emphasized the state’s commitment to combating hate crimes and reassured the Jewish community of their support. The FBI was notified of the threats as a potential hate crime, and the state increased monitoring of social media for antisemitic hate speech in the wake of recent global events.
