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Here is a recipe from Emet Outreach for a memorable couples night out. Invite enthusiastic couples for an interactive evening with friends. Measure out equal parts good conversation and enticing new skills. Sprinkle in an abundance of laughter, enchanting music, and good-natured teamwork. Savor the feeling of connection and accomplishment. This tried-and-true recipe was enjoyed when Emet’s Couples Division hosted a cooking class at Apron Masters in Woodmere. Fifteen couples, and some eager Emet staff, learned to prepare a three-course meal. “We wanted to take a moment to focus on our connection with our spouses and friends at a time when our hearts are with Israel,” said Shay Yonaiev, Couples Director. “Cooking together was perfect since everyone actively participated, relaxed, and had fun.”

Israeli-Born Legislator Calls for Community Leaders Around New York and Country to Follow Suit and Set a Similar Example

Assemblywoman Nily Rozic unveiled a display on the storefront of her Queens district office calling attention to the over 230 hostages who were kidnapped from Israel on October 7. The hostages – ranging in age from infants to senior citizens – were kidnapped by Hamas during their brutal and inhumane terror attack. Many were kidnapped from their homes or the Nova Music Festival, an event celebrating unity and love.

You don’t want to miss Sunday mornings at the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills! Last week, the YIKGH began the second season of “Shiur & Shmear,” a weekly Sunday morning learning program with complimentary breakfast for both men and women. The popular program begins with separate 20-30-minute, interactive shiurim for men and women that start right after the 8:00 a.m. Shacharis minyan finishes (approximately 8:40). Rabbi Daniel Rosenfelt, Rabbi of the YIKGH, delivers the shiur for women, entitled “Timely Tefilah Tricks” (practical halachos and hashkafos of davening), while Rabbi Ephraim Glatt, Esq., Associate Rabbi of YIKGH, delivers the shiur for men, entitled “Make the Most of Your Doorpost” (practical halachos of Mezuzah). Each week is a self-contained topic, and the shiurim are recorded. Following the shiurim, there is a delicious breakfast of bagels, spreads, and coffee, to either eat at YIKGH or “grab and go.”

As a z’chus for klal Yisrael as Jews worldwide grapple with the unfolding situation in Eretz Yisrael, Chaburas V’kroso L’Shabbos Oneg - Kew Gardens, has been formed by a group of like-minded Kew Gardens and Richmond Hill residents. The consortium has a mutual goal of making Maseches Shabbos their “Olam Haba’’ mesechta. The schedule of learning focuses on the completion of an amud-a-day, studied over the course of a week. Shabbos has been designated for chazarah. The program is designed enabling the chaburah to complete the masechta annually.

Agudas Yisroel’s Siyum On Seder Nashim Joins Thousands In T’filah For Eretz Yisroel And Celebration Of Torah Learning

On Sunday evening, October 29, some 3,000 Jews gathered in Bell Works (Holmdel, New Jersey) to participate in Agudah’s Ki Heim Chayeinu’s Siyum on Daf Yomi Seder Nashim in the year that marks the 100^th anniversary of Rav Meir Shapiro zt”l introducing the concept of the Daf Yomi cycle.