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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community Council Member James F. Gennaro responds to Schumer’s Israel Remarks Dear Editor: Senate Majority...
Dear Editor:
As a Hatzalah member myself (and I’m sure most of my fellow members would agree 100 percent), the earpiece on a date was way out of line.
Smoke Shop To Open In Center Of KGH
Dear Editor:
The heart of the Jewish community of Queens will soon be home to a smoke shop that intends to offer marijuana amongst its array of smoking paraphernalia that would presumably include vapes, pipes, bongs, rolling paper, lighters, and the like. The lease is set to begin in just three weeks on February 1 at 71-38 Main Street in the former home of Royal Home Goods, next door to Studio 18 Medi Spa on the block of Shimon’s Pizza, most definitely not an appropriate location for such a window-shop. Yes, anyone will be able to march in and buy pot in our relatively quiet neighborhood.
Dear Editor:
Oh no! Here come the gas stove police! (Not to be confused with the Paw Patrol, kids.) They are followed by the blech patrol, the cholent cops, and finally the crockpot inspectors. Is this why Kathy Hochul was elected governor of New York? I wonder how many meals she cooks in her Albany mansion. Perhaps she should be more concerned about smoke shops opening, or crime on the streets and subways, or the outrageous price of eggs. She, instead, is every balabusta’s worst nightmare.
Dear Editor:
In Sergey Kadinsky’s “Memories of Shuls Past,” there were a number of errors regarding Utopia Jewish Center. The most glaring was that the Orthodox Minyan in the synagogue began much earlier than 2001. The Orthodox Minyan actually was initiated first as the Annex of the Young Israel of Hillcrest, and then as Utopia Torah Congregation in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It was established by a few families that were formerly full-time members at the Young Israel of Hillcrest who lived closer to this side of the neighborhood. (The synagogue even had a little league team in the early ’90s.)
Dear Editor:
Queens Jewish Link readers are rightly deeply concerned about increasing incidents of anti-Semitism. A powerful, simple way to show our Jewish communal response will be on Tuesday, January 31, at 9 a.m., when Matthew Mahrer and Christopher Brown are due in New York State Supreme Court, Criminal Term, 111 Centre Street, Manhattan, room 733, before Judge Diane Kiesel.
Dear Editor:
Years ago, I composed lyrics for a well-known holiday tune, while I was having difficulties with my supervisor at work. This year, I made a concerted effort to celebrate each day of Chanukah by wearing Chanukah attire to publicize the miracle in my own way.
