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The Agudath Israel of Kew Gardens Hills is celebrating a major milestone marking fifty years being a beacon of harbotzas torah for Queens. The shul continues putting forth children that are mekadesh shem shamayim striving to lead a life of torah and worldly values representing what it means to be a Jew in the 21^st century. The seventies were a fascinating era compiled of world-changing events from the Yom Kippur War to Watergate and the Iranian Crisis and influential personalities like Gold Meir, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Begin and Koch dominating the headlines. ParshasMishpatim marks the monumental establishment of what was then known as the Zeirei Agudas Yisroel of Kew Gardens Hills.

On Motza’ei Shabbos, Parshas Mishpatim, a festive melaveh malkah was held to mark Congregaion Ohel Yitzchok’s 38 years of continued contributions to the Kew Gardens Hills area. The evening featured a siyum haShas on behalf of the shul’s Daf HaYomi chaburah and was dedicated in memory of founding member Dr. Tali Skoczylas a”h.

Anger and frustration greeted Mayor Bill de Blasio at his Town Hall meeting at Russell Sage Junior High School in Forest Hills on February 19.

On the afternoon of Wednesday, February 19, residents and business owners were put into a frenzy after construction crews working along Main Street mistakenly struck a high-pressure gas main, causing widespread street closures and evacuations in the Kew Gardens Hills neighborhood.

Chazaq’s Shaping Lives Sunday School impacts the lives of hundreds of public school children every week by providing learning and fun in 6 locations!

These days you can invent an app, start a blog, and sell stuff online; but if you are a DJ, you are going to need to start with one track. If this melody is real enough and honest enough, and if it is made of everything that has made you, including where you come from, who you knew, and your overall history, then you may have a chance at connecting with everyone else, and maybe that is precisely your ticket to everything that is to come.