Community Corner

With her election as Speaker of the New York City Council on January 7, Julie Menin stepped into a role second only to the mayor in municipal power, making history as the first Jewish person to ever hold the post.

This past Shabbos, Bnos leaders from the Kew Gardens and Richmond Hill communities traveled to Montreal to participate in a larger Bnos Leaders Shabbaton, joining peers from other cities for a deeply inspiring and uplifting experience of growth and unity.

Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato, who has represented the 23^rd District for the past decade, has announced her retirement and endorsed Pesach Osina as her successor.

Parshas VaEira shows us the unfolding of g’ulah in action. Hashem begins to reveal Himself to Moshe, saying, “I appeared to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Yaakov as “E-l Shad-dai,” but My Name Hashem I did not make known to them.” Now, the redemption is personal, immediate, and tangible. G’ulah moves from promise to reality.

Hatzolah of Queens and Great Neck recently welcomed a new group of volunteer EMT first responders, marking another important milestone in the organization’s ongoing commitment to lifesaving emergency care throughout Queens and Great Neck.

Douglas Murray has built a career interrogating the ideas that hold civilizations together— and what happens when they fray. A bestselling author, cultural critic, political commentator and journalist whose work spans politics, literature and moral philosophy, Murray will bring that inquiry into the classroom this spring as Yeshiva University’s inaugural President’s Professor of Practice.