Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community 
Simchat Torah is more than the conclusion of one Torah reading cycle and the start of another. It is an invitation to revisit and rethink familiar teachings with a fresh perspective, a reminder that each year offers a chance to approach the text—and our lives—with renewed curiosity and openness, ready to begin again.
As part of Midreshet Adina’s amazing lineup of virtual shiurim, Mrs. Dina Schoonmaker taught an inspiring series of shiurim on Chovos HaL’vavos. The following is from her shiur on Tuesday morning, October 28.
The Talmud teaches: “Welcoming guests is greater than welcoming the presence of the Shechinah” (Shabbos 127).
The relationship between Chazaq and the Kalever Chassidus has been strong for over a decade, and this past Sukkot Chazaq celebrated Simchas Bais Hashoeva in the magnificent sukkah of the Kalever Rebbe in Williamsburg. The event brought together members of the community for an unforgettable night of joy, inspiration, and dancing.
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, thanked the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and its Chair Virginia Foxx (R-NC), for the committee staff’s detailed, comprehensive, 325-page report on “Anti-Semitism on College Campuses Exposed,” and called to “clean house” in American higher education. The report determined that “so-called university leaders intentionally declined to express support for campus Jewish communities” lest they offend anti-Semitic faculty and students, ignored their own rules and policies to give anti-Semitic vandalism and harassment a free pass, and often did so due to intervention by faculty to preclude meaningful discipline.
An Esteemed Past, a Vibrant Present, an Exciting Future
“I went to Stern.”
Tens of thousands of graduates over the past seven decades have said those proud words, each declaring them with a knowing smile and prompting great memories consisting of friends, classes, professors, religious inspiration, dorm life, Manhattan living and countless other wonderful thoughts and experiences.
