Community Corner

Family, friends, rabbanim, and community members packed Beth Gavriel in Forest Hills on Tuesday evening, September 15, for the official launch of Rabbi Yaniv Meirov’s new book, Ohr Chazaq on the Parsha: Powerful Torah Lessons for Life. The evening of Torah, music, dancing, and a buffet celebrated a project whose roots reach back more than 20 years, to Rabbi Meirov’s days as a teenager sharing weekly Torah thoughts with the community.

Main Street was already in pre-Yom Tov mode this past Monday afternoon, September 7, when Governor Kathy Hochul arrived in Kew Gardens Hills.

This article focuses mostly on the frum Jews whose lives were lost or forever changed by September 11, but that focus is not meant to diminish the lives of the thousands of others who were killed, the responders who risked everything, or the families and communities that continue to live with the consequences. Every person lost that day had a family, a story, and a life that deserves to be remembered.

Is a Rosh HaShanah that falls on Shabbos something to fear – or could the silence of the shofar itself become a source of merit?

For nearly two decades, Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has provided Shabbos accommodations for families who want to remain near loved ones receiving care. As demand grew, however, its longtime hospitality apartment could get crowded.

This past Sunday, September 6, Rabbi Nahum Kaziev, Rav of Ohr Natan in Rego Park, stood outside Jerusalem Bagels on 108th Street in Forest Hills and announced that he was ending an approximately 30-year affiliation with the Democratic Party. Beside him was Rafael Nektalov, founder and editor-in-chief of The Bukharian Times, who announced that he, too, was leaving the party.