Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community On Wednesday evening, October 22, community women of all ages gathered at Ohel Simcha for an...
On Sunday, June 23, Let’s Get Real with Coach Menachem featured a virtual shiur with Chaim Moshe Steinmetz, LISW, on changing the dance in marriage.
Ateret Cohanim marked Yom Yerushalayim with its annual New York dinner held this past Tuesday, June 4, at Hewlett Harbor’s stunning The Seawane Club with tables of local Jewish supporters. Widely recognized as Yerushalayim’s shield, Ateret Cohanim continues its mission born 44 years ago to strengthen Jewish roots around the Torah citadels that dot the Old City in a pioneering effort to revitalize Jewish life by families establishing their homes there. Strolling through the modern-day Moslem and Christian Quarters, one finds budding Jewish life on its streets once again, namely in the communities of Abu Tor, Kfar HaShiloach/HaTeimanim, Maaleh HaZeitim, and Kidmat Zion. Ateret Cohanim, nearly single-handedly, has reinvigorated Torah on land barren of its loftiness for some 2,000 years.
On Tuesday evening, June 18, the Navigating the Medical System Lecture Series featured Dr. Mel Breite, Director and Founder of the series, for the end-of-year virtual lecture, hosted by Congregation Etz Chaim.
Congregation Etz Chaim filled with community members on Wednesday evening, June 5 (Yom Yerushalayim), anxious to hear from the speaker, Shabbos Kestenbaum, a graduate student at Harvard University. As part of the Yom Yerushalayim program at the shul, Shabbos Kestenbaum spoke about his extremely challenging experiences of anti-Semitism at Harvard Law School this year.
On Sunday evening, June 2, community members flocked to Ohel Sara to hear a shiur on transforming relationships, hosted by Chazaq and featuring Rabbi Gavriel Friedman, well-known speaker. The shiur was in memory of Jacke Friedman z”l, Natan Nata z”l, and HaRav Yechiel Yitzchak ben Leah z”l. The shiur was sponsored by Amudim, UJA, and Ohel Sara.
This writer had the honor to interview Staff Sergeant Mordechay Shenveld, an IDF soldier and accomplished violinist, who was wounded in Gaza. He is someone with a mission and, baruch Hashem, he has a beautiful message he wants to spread, and he is speaking all over North America and Israel. He spoke in Montreal, Kingston (Ontario), Miami, Chicago, and New Jersey, and he is heading to Los Angeles.
