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Fleetwood Synagogue in Mount Vernon kicked off its campaign to raise funds for a new sefer Torah in style on Sunday, welcoming noted sofer Rabbi Yaakov Hoffman for an informative interactive demonstration of what goes into repairing a sefer Torah.
During the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, Bnei Yisrael take upon themselves to recite Tehillim, because saying Tehillim is a segulah for teshuvah. According to Likutei Moharan II, 73, saying Tehillim is a great way to rouse feelings of awakening toward Hashem.
Elected officials participate in Met Council’s Rosh HaShanah food distribution
for the Jewish poor across the City of New York
The largest free kosher food distribution in America takes place over the course of one month – right here in New York. In preparation for Rosh HaShanah, over 900 community volunteers and 20 elected officials joined the Met Council these past weeks at 82 locations in Queens, Borough Park, Flatbush, Manhattan, and Staten Island to distribute fresh food packages for over 100,000 New Yorkers in need of food for Yom Tov.
Last Monday night, members of the Kew Gardens Hills community gathered at Dr. and Mrs. Sam and Avigayil Straus’ home to benefit PUAH, an invaluable chesed organization.
Whew! The marathon is over. What, you didn’t know there was a marathon? Well, we at Netzach Outreach felt like we were running one this past summer. The summer of 2019 was a whirlwind of activity and accomplishments for the Jewish public-school students of Queens, New York. Baruch Hashem, we feel that due to their hard work, the Queens community surely has significant merits to bring to the fore when Rosh HaShanah arrives – in less than two weeks.
The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) recently called on Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders to sever his ties with Linda Sarsour, who was recently named a surrogate for his campaign.
