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Come to the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills at 7:30 a.m. on any Shabbos morning and you will see the shul’s vibrant Hashkamah Minyan. The Hashkamah Minyan, which is celebrating its 50^th anniversary this year, is being recognized by the YIKGH at its upcoming dinner on December 17, 2023. According to Rabbi Daniel Rosenfelt, the Rabbi of YIKGH, “The rich history of the Hashkamah Minyan contributes to its current success, and we are looking forward to acknowledging that at our dinner.”

The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, last week welcomed news that the House Ways and Means Committee will consider bipartisan legislation to revoke the tax-exempt status of organizations providing financial support or resources to designated terrorist groups. The bill, sponsored by Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN) and Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL), comes after National Students for Justice in Palestine and Black Lives Matter groups celebrated the atrocities committed by the Hamas terror organization in Israel on October 7, while others, like American Muslims for Palestine and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, claimed Israel was responsible and are alleged to have direct ties to Hamas.

When Talia Dror was a senior at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School (NSHAHS) in 2020, the school’s website was hacked, and riddled with anti-Semitic slogans and slurs. The incident had a lasting impact on her. She wrote about the experience in her college application, stating she wanted to go into labor and employment law, “because no one should feel unsafe to be able to walk into their school or workplace because of their ethnicity or religion or sexual orientation.” That essay led to her acceptance at Cornell, where she is currently an industrial and labor relations major, now in her junior year. The incident also spurred Dror’s on-campus activism as a student leader with Cornellians for Israel.

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