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Community Currents Preschoolers in the Rambam Day School of Savannah, Georgia learn about the Aleph Bais and their names.
On Sunday, October 13, the Yeshiva of Central Queens kicked off its Parent-Child Sunday Learning Program.
Pirchei Agudas Yisroel of Chaim Berlin hosted the Annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Shabbos Shel Achdus in Flatbush, Center for Jewish Life in Marlboro N.J under the direcBrooklyn on Shabbos Parshas Yisro. A hundred Pirchim from Washington Heights, Philadelphia, Scranton, and Far tion of Rabbi Yossi Kanelsky held its 5th annual “Shabbat Rockaway attended. 200”Earlier for teenagers. this month, the Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation held its annual commemoration of Ra-
chel Imeinu’s yarzheit. A buffet dinner was held at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center on October 14. The keynote speaker was Rabbi Jonathan Rietti who gave a dramatic presentation on the relationship between Rachel Imeinu and the nal Geulah.
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on HomeKeynote Speaker Rabbi Jonathan Rietti landEvelyn Security, recently heldand a workshop on Rabbi Yechezkel Pikus, Chaim Deutsch, and Evelyn and Haies, founder presidentin Queens the U.S. (DHS) Haies. of RCRF. Department of Homeland Security’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which provides houses of worship and non-profit institutions with Dr Baruch Sterman speaking Sunday Morning at Ohr Chaim – 18 Forshay on “Techeiles in the Bigdei Kehuna.” funds to protect their properties against threats. This year’s deadline to apply for grants is March 18.
CPAC 2020
On Sunday, February 23, hundreds of volunteers gathered for a siyum in memory of those who have no one to learn in their memory. Over the last four years, Chesed Shel Emes has buried over 400 meisei mitzvah, and for the past 35 years has made a siyum for the more than 2,000 people it has buried. The siyum was made by Rav Yisroel Rosenberg, dayan of Kehilas Viznitz in Williamsburg and brother of Rav Mendel Rosenberg, director of Chesed Shel Emes. The guest speaker was Rav Ezriel Yehuda Roth, menahel of the Talmud Torah in Jersey City.
Yishai Fleisher, Hevron’s international spokesperson, and columnist Caroline Glick were among the many “names” at this year’s CPAC conference in Washington, which bills itself as the “largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world.” Also making appearances at CPAC were President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Brexit leader Nigel Farage, radio host John Batchelor, Senator Ted Cruz, Rep. Matt Gaetz, Blexit leader Candace Owens, and advisors to the president Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. A Shabbaton, headed by Rabbi Daniel Lapin, was held in a hotel across the street for Jews attending CPAC. Approximately 250 Jews benefited from the Honorees pose behind the Jewish Mother’s Day cake donated by Pressers Bakery Avenue M. (L-R) Shabbat meals and speeches, which were organized by Mark Langfan, Breaking the Silence Award; Rabbi Yechezkel Pikus, Rahel Imeinu Community Chessed Young Beck, MarkActualist Levin, Award; Esther Lamm, Young Leadership Award;Jewish Evelyn Conservatives. Haies, Fran andGlenn Stephen Epstein Award; and Mitchell Shapiro, esq., Rachel Imeinu Activist Award. and Mort Klein, among others, addressed the group.
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On October 2, Zicharon, an organization that assists people on issues relating to dementia, hosted an informative evening in Menorah Hall featuring renowned dementia experts who provided the audience with much-needed advice and information on dealing with this disease. Among the speakers were Rabbi Eliezer Kaminetzky; Dr. Gary Kennedy, chief of Geriatric Psychiatry at Monteore Medical Center; and Matt Kudish, senior vice president of caregiver services of the NY Chapter of the American Alzheimer’s Association.
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