Community Corner

September begins the seventh month of the COVID-19 emergency food relief at Masbia Soup Kitchen Network. It will also be the beginning of a concerted effort to modernize the breadline. Due to the unprecedented 500% increase in demand since the start of the pandemic, the breadlines have been snaking around the block with hundreds of people on the lines at each of the Masbia locations. Moving to an appointment system is a way to give people back their dignity, safety, and their time, since they won’t have to wait for hours on the line.

Virtual Program Brings Together Participants From 15 States
And Two Canadian Provinces

Over 2,600 men and women from 15 states and two Canadian provinces are participating in the Orthodox Union (OU)’s SPIRIT program during the COVID-19 pandemic. The “Stimulating Program Initiative for Retirees that Inspires Thought” (SPIRIT) has played a vital role for those over 60 who have been staying home during the pandemic due to the increased risk they face.

 Ateret Cohanim/Jerusalem Chai is ensuring the safety of families in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem and putting smiles on the faces of our precious children.

Chazal tell us that spiritual growth does not happen in leaps and bounds. The real battle, the choice between truth and falsehood, life and death, happens in the smallest possible steps – teeny, tiny, micro-movements, not miles.

Responding to the historic peace agreement normalizing economic relations between Serbia and Kosovo brokered by the United States, which incorporated Kosovo’s normalization of relations with Israel, and Serbia moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem into the agreement, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the Coalition for Jewish Values, issued the following statement:

Please recite Psalms 20, 30, 88, 121, and 130.

Rachamim ben Sa’ida Mazal

Shraga Feivel ben Chayah Daba

Chaim Avraham ben Shifrah Zisel

Yehudah Yudel ben Miriam Gittel

Ezra ben Esther

Shimon ben Rachel

Mordechai ben Rivkah

David ben Shima

Menachem Mendel ben Sima Brachah

Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai ben Rose Nizha

Dov Ber ben Chayah Gittel

Yaakov ben Chanah Dinah

David Mordechai ben Beila Rivkah

Yair ben Sarah

Ofir Chai ben Lilach

Chaim Meir Binyamin ben Chanah Sarah

Ariel ben Adva

Doriel ben Maya 

Mordechai ben Rivkah

Pinchas ben Feige Dinah

Levi Yitzchak ben Keren

Nachman ben Mendal

Geta bas Rinah

Chanah Chayah bas Leah

Efrat bas Oshra

Karen bas Rachel

Adinah Adele Yael bas Leah

Evon bas Sally

Rachel bas Esther

Esther Hadasah bas Devorah

Miriam bas Selma

Tamar bas Miriam

Miriam Margarita bas Esther

Angela bas Tamara

Rosa bas Osnat

Maya bas Isabella

Yaffah bas Iza

Shirly bas Yehudis

Rus Moriah bas Shoshanah Miriam

Miriam P’ninah bas Yehudis Masha

Naamah bas Tamar

Esther Perel bas Chanah Devorah

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