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The Queens Jewish Link and Bukharian Jewish Link were honored to participate in the Queens Jewish Community Council (QJCC) gala dinner held this past Thursday evening, June 9 at Da Mikelle Palazzo in Woodside recognizing 53 years of service to Queens and beyond. The event paid tribute to the staff of the organization and attracted over two hundred guests including a large array of Jewish and legislative leaders. To give the evening a special boost of energy, dinner co-chairs Mr. Alan Sherman and Dr. Judy Rosen, Vice President, QJCC, worked to create a buzz. Dr. Rosen also did a stellar job serving as Master of Ceremonies.

On Wednesday, June 1, 16 Jewish and Christian pro-Israel organizations with large constituencies in New York State sent a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul and Office of General Services Commissioner Jeanette Moy, urging them to act against the continuing anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) actions by Unilever PLC and its wholly owned subsidiary, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. The text of the letter can be viewed here.

 Mr. Gerald Bass, who retired a few years ago after teaching science at HALB for 36 years, came in to present the science award named in his honor to our worthy eighth grade recipients, Julia Klayman and Kivi Kleinman.

Chazaq recently celebrated the two-year anniversary of their weekly “Turn Saturday night into Motza’ei Shabbos” lecture series with Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser and Dr. David Lieberman. The series started right at the peak of the COVID pandemic. With the country quarantined and staying at home, live, in-person events became an impossibility.

Our Sages have taught us: “Jealousy (kin’ah), lust (taavah), and honor (kavod) remove a man from this world” (Avos 4:28). The world, as Hashem created it, is a happy one. It is we who have removed ourselves from the world of happiness to the world of suffering by means of these three evil desires.

BIRTHS

Mr. and Mrs. Arie Abirian on the birth of a grandson