Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community While a libelous Israeli film was rewarded in Venice with a jury prize and a standing ovation, the...
New York
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to build a $30 million taxpayer-funded grocery store in Harlem has drawn sharp criticism from supermarket industry leaders.
President Donald Trump and his administration have long been on a path to diminish Palestinian declarations of statehood. The Trump administration recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel, and in a historic move relocated the American embassy to Yerushalayim. David Friedman, US Ambassador to Israel, is recognized for engaging the White House on such a transference, and must be commended for his painstaking efforts since assuming his position.
The recent comments by freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib during a podcast have been discussed thoroughly in the Jewish, and non-Jewish, community. Tlaib, who spun an ahistorical lie that the surviving Jews of the Holocaust were welcomed with open arms by her Palestinian ancestors, has her defenders in the Democratic Party. The nefarious aspect of the defense tactics is not claiming that she is right; rather, they attack the criticizers themselves. By doing this, their goal is to silence their opponents, and this silence has a history all its own.
“Not only one has risen against us to annihilate us, but in every generation they rise against us to annihilate us.” These words, recited during the most emotional point of the Pesach Seder, still ring true, despite the incredible freedoms American Jews enjoy. Six months after the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, last week another shooting occurred at the Chabad in Poway, California. A few days earlier, The New York Times published a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as a big-nosed dog with a Jewish star necklace leading a yarmulke-wearing, blind President Trump. Anti-Semitism rears its ugly head in many forms, and American Jews must be knowledgeable of who our enemies are and where they come from if we are to continue to survive.
This is life in Israel: Imagine a daily reality where life can be interrupted instantly by a siren's wail, leaving only seconds to find shelter. For most, the instruction is simple: run to a sheltered area. But for patients confined to intensive care or undergoing surgery, running is impossible. Recent conflicts highlight the urgent need for comprehensive fortification in medical institutions. Leading the charge is Laniado Hospital in Netanya.
New York
A 22-year-old Queens man has been indicted on hate crime charges for allegedly damaging property outside Bagels & Co. on Union Turnpike in May. Dawood Faisal, of Fresh Meadows, was arraigned on two counts of third-degree criminal mischief as a hate crime.
