Community Corner

The Rabbinical Alliance of America – the Igud HaRabbonim, representing over 950 American rabbis – stands in support and solidarity with Asian Americans and calls on all Americans to likewise stand up and condemn the recent violence perpetrated against Asian Americans. The tragic, cold-blooded Atlanta shooting this week by an evil, hateful individual claimed the lives of eight innocent people, possibly due to racism. Tragically, less than an hour later, four Asian Americans were murdered in a separate violent shooting.

On Seder night, all of us are obligated to see ourselves as if we personally left Egypt: In every generation a person must see himself as though he personally had gone out of Egypt, as it is said: “And you shall tell your son in that day, saying: “It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.”

Met Council brought the largest pre-Pesach distribution of free, kosher food in the country to its Boro Park Chesed Center and to UJO Williamsburg at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Thousands of families received 768,799 pounds of food between the two locations, a $3.9 million investment by Met Council to ensure Jewish New Yorkers would not go without food this Pesach.

A Degree Designed to Build the Future Today

In Yeshiva University’s engineering-focused M.S. in Artificial Intelligence (AI), offered by the Katz School of Science and Health, students will learn the key skills most valued in today’s marketplace, including machine learning and deep neural networks, along with cutting-edge technologies like reinforcement learning, voice recognition and generation, and image recognition and generation.

This past Sunday afternoon, I had the privilege to join Assembly Member David Weprin on a stroll along Main Street to greet locals and interact with store owners ahead of Pesach.

 On a spring afternoon about 35 years ago, young Ilya Blokh accompanied his older brother and the siblings’ father by streetcar in Moscow to their grandmother’s walk-up, second-floor apartment several kilometers away.