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 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.

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.

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.

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.

BIRTHS

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

David HaMelech teaches us in T’hilim (32:10), “The one who trusts in Hashem, kindness will surround him.” If you put your trust in Hashem, He will shower you with kindness. Chazal assure us that Hashem grants special protection, mercy, and kindness to those who put their absolute trust in Him. Rabbeinu Bachya, in Kad HaKemach, wrote: “One who trusts in Gd, he is rewarded by being carried high above affliction – even when it is befitting for such affliction to befall him.”