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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community My father zt”l would recall witnessing prominent Jews on their knees, being forced by the Nazis to...
The story is told of a man named Yankel whose wife had just given birth to a baby boy. All excited, he decided to share the good news with his brother Berel, a butcher.
A few weeks ago, Dr. David Hurwitz, well-respected local pediatrician, returned from a trip to Israel and handed me an article that appeared in the April 25 edition of The Jerusalem Post. The article, written by Joshua M. Davidson, senior rabbi of New York’s renowned Reform Congregation Emanu-El, was titled “Separating Biblical Mythology from Biblical History.”
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article critical of Reform Rabbi Joshu a Davidson who had written an article in The Jerusalem Post critical of the Bible, worthy of some of history’s worst anti-Semites.
Last week on Yom HaAtzmaut, our good friend and former KGH resident Moshe Markovitz spoke at Congregation Etz Chaim. Moshe gave a personal account of his very young days growing up as a child in the newly declared State of Israel in 1948. Although just a few years old at the time, his recollections remain vivid of the very day David Ben-Gurion declared Israel’s independence, on Erev Shabbos as it were. The jubilation, the dancing in the streets, accompanied by the preparation for Shabbos, still swirl in the inner recesses of his mind.
In just a few short weeks, Queens will elect a new District Attorney for the first time in 28 years. As criminal justice issues have come to the forefront of mainstream attention, the DA race has become the campaign to watch for those with their finger on the political pulse of the city.
I love dogs. I always did. They are loyal, lovable, and make great companions. But what shall I tell you, I never owned one. The Torah tells us to reward dogs for their obedience during the Exodus from Egypt (Sh’mos 11:7 and 22:30). So I’m not sure why society has heaped scorn and derision on a dog. “He has a dog’s life; tired like a dog; looks like a dog, etc.” Yes, I know, there’s the “lucky dog,” but that’s because the dog is lucky.
