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Community Currents Preschoolers During Chol Hamoed Sukkot, Aleh hosted a grand opening celebration for Bet Chayil, its new, state-ofin the Rambam the-art special education school and rehabilitative center in the heart of Bnei Brak. The festivities, which Day School of were presided over by Aleh Director General Rabbi Yehuda Marmorstein in the presence of Rabbi Lord Savannah, Georgia learn Sacks, commenced about Jonathan with the inauguration of a Sefer Torah that was commissioned by Leo and the Aleph Bais Susan Noé as Bet Chayil’s spiritual focal point. and their names.
Earlier this month, the Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation held its annual commemoration of Rachel 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.
On Sunday, October 13, the Yeshiva of Central Queens kicked off its Parent-Child Sunday Learning Program.
Far Rockaway Jewish community leaders with Comptroller Scott Stringer to discuss issues of concern at a roundtable hosted by Yeshiva Darchei Torah.
(L-R) Aleh Director General Rabbi Yehuda Marmorstein, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, and Leo Noé pose with the Sefer Torah.
Over 350 people recently flocked to Queen’s College Fitzgerald Gym on Sunday, November 3, to participate in the fourth annual Eldercare Expo for seniors and their caregivers. The event was coordinated by The JCC of Marine Park, Chazaq, New York United Jewish, in partnership with Schneps Media. The event featured informational seminars and more than 50 vendor booths showcasing a variety of facilities, products, and services such as assisted living, home care, pooled trusts, and legal advice.
Keynote Speaker Rabbi Jonathan Rietti and Evelyn Haies, founder and president of RCRF.
(L-R) Rabbi Dovid Katz, menahel, Igud; Rabbi Dr. Joseph Frager, chairman, Israel Advocacy Commission, Igud; Rabbi Matis Melnicke; Rabbi Mendy Mirocznik, executive vice-president, Igud.
Rabbi Yechezkel Pikus, Chaim Deutsch, and Evelyn Haies.
Igud HaRabbonim (the Rabbinical Alliance of America), representing over 950 American rabbis, congratulated Dr. Joseph Frager on receiving semicha from Kollel Ayshel Avraham Rabbinical Seminary headed by Rav Yaakov Spivak, who is also a presidium member of the Igud HaRabbonim. Igud HaRabbonim appointed Dr. Frager as the chairman of its Israel Advocacy Commission.
Honorees pose behind the Jewish Mother’s Day cake donated by Pressers Bakery Avenue M. (L-R) Mark Langfan, Breaking the Silence Award; Rabbi Yechezkel Pikus, Rahel Imeinu Community Chessed Award; Evelyn Haies, Fran and Stephen Epstein Actualist Award; Esther Lamm, Young Leadership Award; and Mitchell Shapiro, esq., Rachel Imeinu Activist Award.
Before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island (JCCGCI) held its On October 2, Zicharon,event. an organization that assists on issues relating demenannual food distribution Among those who tookpeople part this year was NewtoYork City mayor Bill de tia, hosted an informative evening in Menorah Hall featuring renowned dementia expertsrabbi of the Sea Blasio. Before leaving, the mayor was blessed by Rabbi Zalman Leib Meisels, the senior who provided the audience with much-needed advice and information on dealing with this Gate community and a survivor of Auschwitz. The mayor also met with about 110 children enrolled in disease. Among the speakers were Rabbi Eliezer Kaminetzky; Dr. Gary Kennedy, chief of Getwo learning centers in the ore neighborhood. riatric Psychiatry at Monte Medical Center; and Matt Kudish, senior vice president of
caregiver services of the NY Chapter of the American Alzheimer’s Association.
Last week, a new Magen David Adom Mobile Intensive Care Unit ambulance was inaugurated in memory of Amiad Yisrael Ish-Ran, who was killed as a result of injuries his mother Shira sustained in a terror attack in Ofra, Israel, last year. Shira was in the 30th week of pregnancy. MDA teams administered lifesaving medical care and evacuated her to a nearby hospital, where doctors performed an emergency cesarean section to deliver the premature baby. The newborn passed away three days later. The Mobile Intensive Care Unit ambulance (MICU) will be operating in the Jerusalem area.
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