Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community 
On Sunday, June 9, Chazaq hosted an exhilarating basketball tournament at Queens College, drawing a spirited crowd and fostering a sense of unity and excitement. The event kicked off at 10 a.m. and featured 20 teams with over 100 enthusiastic participants cheering them on.
Calls for the return of hostages were heard amid patriotic pop songs at the Celebrate Israel Parade in Manhattan this past Sunday, which was rebranded for this year as Israel Day on Fifth. Rising to the security challenges following an uptick in anti-Semitic incidents following the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, a record number of participants and spectators were determined to be heard and seen.
Rav Avraham Rockmill zt”l, longstanding rebbi at Yeshivat Ohr Somayach in Yerushalayim, who originally hailed from Forest Hills, was niftar last week.
Last Thursday evening, the community gathered at the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills for an inspiring challah bake hosted by Chazaq in solidarity with Israel. The event created an atmosphere of unity, spirituality, and tradition.
Her face radiated
Sweetness
Caring
Compassion
Friendship.
A devastating fire tore through a Kew Gardens Hills home last Wednesday morning, May 29, leaving the lives of an upstanding family overturned. At 9:30 a.m., the Kornblums called for the FDNY as an inferno raged in their basement at 147-15 68th Drive. "We were told to vacate ASAP," said David Kornblum to the QJL. "We are thankful to be alive, b'chasdei Hashem. We are indebted to the fast-thinking work of the fire department. We are grateful that the blaze was contained and our home has not been condemned. However, much work remains."
