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Laughter and smiles filled the Simchah Hall at Yeshivas Ohr HaChaim for the annual Purim mesibah. Bachurim clad in unique costumes, wigs, and hats joined alongside hanhalas haYeshivah for the enthusiastic festivities that included the leibedik music of Yossi Cohen. The talmidim were joined by Rav Doniel Lander, Rosh HaYeshivah, Rav Mordechai Finkelman, Mashgiach Ruchani, and Rabbi Yehoshua Weiss, a magid shiur. In the spirit of Purim, all joined in fast-paced rekidos, staples of a yeshivah mesibah.

Emet’s Women’s Division rose to the occasion with a motivational and meaningful mother-daughter challah bake. “The challah bake made me feel so grateful to be a Jewish woman and to be a part of Emet. I witnessed firsthand how special our community is and how we can come together to better ourselves and each other,” said Sharona Priyev one of the student leaders who organized the event along with Alexandra Davydov and the Emet team.  Over 150 mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends gathered at the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates for an evening of baking, dancing, and celebrating with one another.

In this week’s parshah, parshiyos VaYakhel-P’kudei, Moshe Rabbeinu gathers B’nei Yisrael to tell them about the construction of the Mishkan (the Tabernacle). This appears somewhat strange, for at no other time when Moshe Rabbeinu conveyed a mitzvah does the Torah tell us that he gathered all the people together.

The Kew Gardens Motza’ei Shabbos avos u’banim learning program concluded this past weekend. Congratulations to the Godick family on winning both grand prizes: the Shas and the high-speed bicycle!

YU Opens First-of-its-Kind Security Operations Center to Train the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Experts

New York, N.Y. – March 9, 2023 – Responding to the urgent need for next-gen cybersecurity experts who will make the nation and the world safer, Yeshiva University’s Katz School of Science and Health opened a new Security Operations Center (SOC) to provide an unprecedented level of hands-on, real-world training and cyber-defense skills.

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards has endorsed Melinda Katz for re-election as Queens District Attorney.