Community Corner

Despite heavy rain, the West Hempstead Jewish community turned out in full force on July 8 for a successful Taste of Israel BBQ event, raising $60,000 for the critical work of One Israel Fund. Over 175 attendees gathered at the home of Alan and Sharon Shulman, who once again generously opened their home for this annual tradition.

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This week’s parshah, Parshas Pinchas, shows us how one person’s courage and mesirus nefesh can save an entire nation. Pinchas acted quickly and with pure yir’as Shamayim to stop a terrible sin that was causing a plague in klal Yisrael. Because of his z’chus, Hashem gave him a special promise: a “bris shalom,” a covenant of peace.

When life-and-death decisions are on the line, who guides us through life’s hardest medical choices—in real time? How does halacha respond to the complex realities of modern medicine and today’s increasingly fraught healthcare system?

Mort Klein, a German-born American economist, statistician, and chairman of the Zionist Organization of America for three decades, has been praised as a voice of sanity for the Jewish community. While other American Jewish leaders have often been perceived as “emotional” and playing politics, Klein leaves little to the imagination. He’s a pragmatist and remains one of the most prominent Zionist leaders in America, especially at a time of great existential dangers facing Israel and the Jewish diaspora.

In a powerful display of unity, tradition, and song, Ohr Natan and the Queens Jewish Community Council (QJCC) hosted the 34^th Annual Salute to the Russian-Speaking Jewish Community Festival on Sunday, June 29. The event took place at Ohr Natan’s Briarwood shul, drawing a spirited crowd from Queens’ deeply rooted Bukharian and Russian-speaking Jewish communities.