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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community The call from the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County intended to send a “strong message” ahead of a...
For the fifth straight Chanukah, the Chazaq Organization hosted a toy drive for ill children at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn.
James Gennaro is the former City Council Member for District 24, a seat he held for 12 successful years. Gennaro is once again seeking to lead our community in this very seat, recently vacated by Rory Lancman, and has announced that he is being backed by Shimi Pelman.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, is was the age of foolishness… it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair...” These iconic lines, from the opening of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, certainly sum up the many contradictory feelings for 2020. It was a year that brought the promise of a new decade, but then quickly shifted into a time of uncertainty with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mixed emotions and tribulations aside, 2020 has also been a time of scaling back and focusing on what is truly meaningful in life. For the educators and students at Emet Outreach, it has been a year of moving forward with Torah study and strengthening emunah and bitachon in Hashem.
In this week’s parshah, it states “Yisrael bowed towards the head of the bed.” (B’reishis 47:31). Did Yaakov Avinu bow to his son [Joseph]? Rashi explains: Yaakov Avinu turned himself toward the head of the bed. Based on this, our Sages taught (Shabbos 12b): ‘The Sh’chinah resides above the head of an ill person.’”
On Sunday evening, December 20, Chazaq, TorahAnytime, Mosaica Press, and Congregation Sons of Israel of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, hosted a virtual shiur with Rabbi Ephraim Epstein, author of the new sefer titled Davening Divine. He shared the famous quote from Pirkei Avos that the world stands on three things: Torah, Avodah, u’G’milus Chasadim. “The world was created for t’filah.” He taught that “everyone wants a meaningful t’filah experience. Everyone wants a deeper connection with his Creator.”
What does Dirshu do to celebrate the tremendous milestone of completing an entire chelek of Mishnah Berurah during an era of Corona restrictions?
