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With just days left until Election Day, New York State’s 25^th Republican Assembly District Candidate Kenneth Paek held a friendly pizza party fundraiser exemplifying his campaign promise to stand tall for the Eastern Queens constituents residing within Flushing, Queensboro Hill, Hillcrest, Fresh Meadows, Oakland Gardens, Bayside, and Douglaston.

It is ever-so-effective for the community to have someone senior in a position of power in the conversations and rooms where decisions are made versus a vote to place someone in the minority party who will not be able to deliver anything in Albany. There’s a stark difference.

For the third year running, the Queens unity Sukkos concert drew a massive crowd in central Kew Gardens Hills. The free Simchas Beis Hashoeivah experience was once again held along Vleigh Place in front of the Queens Public Library and attracted an energetic audience of 2,500 spanning a myriad of Queens communities, including many unaffiliated Jews waiting for their spark to ignite. Thirty-year-old Israeli music sensation Itzik Dadya wowed the crowd with popular Jewish tunes new and old as well as several of his own masterful songs. Beginning shortly after seven in the evening on the third night of Chol HaMoed, festive dancing in the spirit of the chag quickly ensued with jubilation all around.

Assembly Member Nily Rozic Visits Yeshivah

Much appreciation is extended to Met Council for providing a special Rosh HaShanah food drive for parents and staff of the Queens Cheder in Jamaica Estates. This past Pesach, Met Council was quite courteous in arranging a similar distribution at the yeshivah. But back in April, America was not facing the current inflation we find ourselves in today.

The New York City Council Jewish Caucus, chaired by Eric Dinowitz, with members Julie Menin, Lynn Schulman, Lincoln Restler, Inna Vernikov, and Kalman Yeger, joined Chabad Lubavitch Youth Organization at the City Hall sukkah for a holiday celebration honor the legacy of Rabbi Shmuel Butman OB’M, of the Chabad Lubavitch Youth Organization on Tuesday, October 22, during Chol HaMoed. The sukkah at the City Hall entrance on Broadway and Murray Street welcomed dignitaries at a touching event arranged by Pesach Osina of the Speaker’s Community Engagement Division. Dep. Chief Richie Taylor, Israel Consul General Ofir Akunis, Judge Ruchie Freier, and Menashe Shapiro of the mayor’s office rounded out the long list of attendees.

AM Braunstein, left, and CM Paladino, right, speak with rally-goers at the Bellcourt press conference.