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Kew Gardens Hills is privileged to have raised Mordechai Serle. The onslaught of this past year’s pande

By Binyamin Ungar and QJL Staff

mic brought the graduate of Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe and Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah-Grodno front and center as a co-founder of Convalescent Plasma Initiative (CPI). There, he successfully shared methods to fight and control the virus under the guidance of leading medical professionals and rabbinic authorities.

This past Monday, February 15, K’hal Adas Yereim in Kew Gardens continued its tradition of hosting a legal holiday Yarchei Kallah event. The institution, also known as the Wolpin Shul, is the structure that Rabbi Shlomo Teilelbaum zt”l built.

Celebrating Strength

Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services is proud to announce that we are honoring Adina Lewis, Esq., and Lawrence Garbuz, Esq., with the Harvey a”h and Gloria Kaylie Community Impact Award at our upcoming 51^st annual gala. The theme of this year’s gala, which will be broadcast virtually on Sunday, March 7, at 5:45 pm, is Celebrate Strength.

Here are some questions often asked of credit restoration specialists Shalvah Schottenfeld and Rachel Collins of Slate Group Credit LLC, based in Kew Gardens.

Chazal tell us that the Jews enjoyed their participation in the feast of Achashveirosh – a feast established as a celebration of the fact that the Jewish nation had not returned from exile and that Hashem had apparently abandoned His people (Maseches Megillah 12a). Before this incident, the Jewish people were content to live their lives in galus within the Persian Empire and did not long to return to Eretz Yisrael nor rebuild the Temple.

The Zohar tells us that Yom Kippur, the most spiritual day of the year, is really, Yom k’Purim, which means “a day like Purim.” (Tikunei Zohar 21: 57b)