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The inaugural HSL Youth Boys basketball season concluded in Little Neck with a thrilling championship day sponsored by Main Street favorite Annie’s Kitchen, featuring teams from local yeshivahs, including host Yeshiva Har Torah. The league, serving students from grades 3 to 8, focused on skill-building and sportsmanship, and providing an inclusive environment for all participants.
Since October 7, 2023, the war in Israel has reshaped lives across the nation. Thousands have been injured, disabled, or killed, leaving behind widows, orphans, and countless families grappling with unbearable loss and struggling to meet basic needs.
More than 60 students, parents, and faculty from Yeshiva Har Torah celebrated a “Winter Family Learning” at the Queens Jewish Center this past Motza’ei Shabbos. Families from Great Neck, West Hempstead, and Queens experienced a musical Havdalah, divrei Torah, and Chanukah Bingo in Hebrew and English.
On Dec. 4, Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, presented the Hildesheimer Lecture to a packed audience in the Senate Room of the Humboldt University’s School of Law in Berlin. The annual lecture co-sponsored by Humboldt University and the Rabbinerseminar zu Berlin, has featured some of the most prominent Jewish thinkers of our time, with a dedicated focus to applying academic and Jewish thought to contemporary times. In his lecture, “Faith and Fellowship: A Historical and Legal Analysis,” Rabbi Berman explored the way in which the great medieval sages interpreted the talmudic model of the righteous gentile to shed light upon how Jewish values guide our responses to the challenging issues facing today’s society.
Who will go up to the mountain of G-d, and who will stand in His holy place? (T’hilim 24:3)
Sam Rappaport Emporio's Director of Marketing and Tony Raposo Store Manager at the Emporio of Teaneck location present Zev Cohn, the winner of Emporio's Design-a-Tie contest, with the new Vertu tie designed by Zev.
