Community Corner

Last week, US Rep. Grace Meng, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that several provisions she championed, which are critical to Israel and the Jewish community, were included in a key spending package that recently passed the US House of Representatives.

The Rabbinical Alliance of America (Igud HaRabbonim), representing over 950 American rabbis, publicly corrects United States House of Representative Rashida Tlaib’s inaccurate comparison of Israel to United States segregation. Representative Tlaib stated that “there is continued dehumanization and racist policies by the State of Israel that violate international human rights, but also violate my core values of who I am as an American.” Tlaib’s comments were published in an interview this past Saturday by Jacobin, a Democratic Socialist magazine based in New York that offers leftist perspectives on American politics.

On Tuesday evening, July 9, Mrs. Adina Stilerman, world renowned speaker, spoke on behalf of Emet Outreach to an overflow crowd of community women at the Bukharian Jewish Congregation of Jamaica Estates.

NewYork-Presbyterian Queens has received the Mission: Lifeline® Gold Receiving Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks. NewYork-Presbyterian Queens is the only hospital in Queens to receive this distinction. This marks the second year in a row that the hospital has received this gold level award.

Recently, at a Shalom Task Force educational workshop that I gave at a college, a student asked: “How does someone know how to have a healthy relationship?”

The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) last week denounced a new pro-BDS resolution put forth by Rep. Ilhan Omar that affirms that “all Americans have the right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.”