What can we do to make a difference for our people in Israel? Baruch Hashem, our community is filled with people who care and take action. Mrs. Linda Cohen shared how she was recently listening to a radio show hosted by Nachum Segal when he posed a question: “Ten years from now, when our kids read about October 7, what will we tell them when they ask what we did to help?” She thought about this question.
When Morah Channah Hecht, Limudei Kodesh teacher for over 25 years at Yeshiva Primary, invited me to attend her students’ Chumash party, I was happy to come, but I had no idea how moving it would be.
On Tuesday evening, February 6, community women gathered for the 39th annual Erna Lindenfeld Hachnosas Kallah Fund of Queens Tea at the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills. The Tea this year was in dedicated in memory of Mrs. Molly Listhaus a”h.
On Tuesday, January 23, Mrs. Dina Schoonmaker, teacher, popular lecturer, and relationship counselor, and staff member of Michlalah Jerusalem College for over 20 years, delivered a virtual musar class on behalf of Midreshet Adina. It was the last of an eight-class series.
On Motza’ei Shabbos, January 27, community members, community rabbanim, and alumni of Yeshiva Kesser Torah gathered for the annual Yeshiva Kesser Torah Melaveh Malkah to show hakaras ha’tov to the yeshivah.
On Tuesday evening, January 16, Navigating the Medical System featured a virtual lecture with Glenn S. Turett, MD, Infectious Diseases Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, on adult vaccinations. The lecture series is hosted by Congregation Etz Chaim.