Susie Garber

On Tuesday evening, October 31, Congregation Etz Chaim’s Navigating the Medical System Lecture Series featured a virtual talk with Dr. Mel Breite, Founder and Director of the lecture series. The series is hosted by Congregation Etz Chaim and draws medical experts from NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital.

On Thursday evening, October 26, a large group of community women gathered at the Young Israel of Queens Valley for a challah bake led by Mrs. Rena Greenberg, well-known morah and speaker. The challah bake was for a z’chus for the soldiers in Israel and also in memory of Rena’s daughter, Bryna Brachah bas Aryeh Yaakov a”h.

On Tuesday night, October 31, community women streamed into the Young Israel of Queens Valley to hear a shiur by Jackie Bitton, well-known speaker, hosted by the Women’s League of the shul.

On Wednesday evening, October 11, Rabbi Fischel Schachter, well-known speaker, storyteller, and author, shared divrei chizuk at Yeshiva Ohr Yitzchok in Brooklyn. He shared a quote of what President George W. Bush said after 9/11. “The sun has set on a different America.” Rav Schachter said, “This Simchas Torah, the sun set on a different klal Yisrael.” He said that today it’s a different world. It’s out of the range of what we can absorb.

On Sunday evening, October 22, Let’s Get Real With Coach Menachem featured Rabbi Doniel Katz, visionary educator and internationally sought-after speaker, sharing a virtual emergency emunah workshop.

On Sunday night, October 15, Let’s Get Real With Coach Menachem featured a supportive virtual shiur featuring Rabbi YY Jacobson, well-known speaker, Dean of yeshiva.net and maggid shiur at Beis Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, Dr. Akiva Perlman, LCSW, PhD, and Clinical Director of Social work at ODA, and Mr. Eli Beer, founder of United Hatzalah of Israel.