Community Corner

It is time to support your Chaverim, friends, whom you can always rely upon for non-medical emergencies.

Chaverim of Queens and Great Neck members are the unsung heroes who stand on the front lines day and night serving the Queens community, without flair, and with humility and honor, going strong since 2007 with absolute dedication and devotion.

Israel is facing her darkest hour in the last fifty years. But she is not facing it alone. Organizations and individuals who care about the Jewish state and the only democracy in the Middle East are rising up to help its people in this dire time of need. At the forefront is the Israel Heritage Foundation (IHF).

When Talia Dror was a senior at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School (NSHAHS) in 2020, the school’s website was hacked, and riddled with anti-Semitic slogans and slurs. The incident had a lasting impact on her. She wrote about the experience in her college application, stating she wanted to go into labor and employment law, “because no one should feel unsafe to be able to walk into their school or workplace because of their ethnicity or religion or sexual orientation.” That essay led to her acceptance at Cornell, where she is currently an industrial and labor relations major, now in her junior year. The incident also spurred Dror’s on-campus activism as a student leader with Cornellians for Israel.

“Who will go up to the mountain of G-d, and who will stand in His holy place?” (T’hilim 24:3)