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Responding to the unprecedented challenges of this year’s High Holidays – people alone, singles, the elderly, vulnerable populations, families with small children stuck at home – the Orthodox Union, the nation’s oldest and largest umbrella organization for the North American Orthodox Jewish community, has created a unique online Torah learning platform, “Chag at Home,” which will offer high-level learning resources from renowned Torah educators, content for families, guides for study, holiday table discussion, and activity sheets for children and teens.

Please recite Psalms 20, 30, 88, 121, and 130.

Yosef ben Esther Gittel

Chaim Avraham ben Shifrah Zisel

A rare link to the previous generation has recently been lost as we were saddened to hear of the p’tirah of our beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Mrs. Bacia Orzel (nee Hirschberg).

John Park, MD, PhD, has been named chief of neurological surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, where he leads a neurosurgical team that provides world-class care for conditions of the brain and spine. He was also recruited to serve as professor of neurological surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine.

The time between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur is known as the Ten Days of Repentance. T’shuvah (repentance) enables us to become close to Hashem again. The Rambam (Hilchos T’shuvah 7:6-7) expresses that the main point of t’shuvah is rebuilding our relationship with Hashem: “T’shuvah is great because it brings a man closer to the Sh’chinah… Yesterday he was loathsome, distanced from Hashem and an abomination, but today he is beloved, a delight, close and a friend… Before, when he davened, Hashem did not listen; and when he did mitzvos, they were torn up before Him… Today, he clings to the Sh’chinah… he calls out to Hashem and is answered… and he does mitzvos that are received with joy.”

Congresswoman also obtains funding for US-Israel Missile Defense Cooperation and helps to pass foreign military assistance for Israel

US Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, which funds all US government agencies, programs, and projects, announced Tuesday that she has secured a record-breaking $180 million for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, the federal initiative that provides houses of worship and nonprofit entities such as synagogues and Jewish educational institutions with funding to protect their properties against threats and attacks.