Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community When Mrs. Porter heard a knock at the door of her Baltimore home one evening at suppertime, she...
Recap: Hope takes Bonnie to the park, and she catches a glimpse of a white Cadillac. She realizes that it’s her parents’ car, which was stolen by the KKK. She tells Rivkah that they have to leave the park.
Recap: As instructed by Mr. Bowers, Hope goes to the beauty shop to get a haircut so that the KKK people trying to find her won’t recognize her. She goes to the Jacobsons and asks about getting a Hebrew name. She likes the name Tikvah, which means hope.
A couple of years ago, I wrote about an imagined future for Iraq in which Rabbi Paysach Krohn leads Jewish heritage tours of Pumbedisa and Sura, with the same descriptive expertise as his tours of Poland and kivrei tzadikim closer to home in Queens. Unfortunately, this hypothetical learning experience has yet to become reality. Likewise, the entirety of Eretz Yisrael has not been brought under Jewish control, with Gaza as the hornet’s nest of terrorism that kidnaps and murders Israelis and rains rockets on population centers. But what if the near future made it possible for Jews to visit Gaza safely as tourists? What would they see?
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During a rally in Times Square, Senator Chuck Schumer expressed his commitment to eradicating Hamas and rescuing hostages held in Gaza, where at least 203 individuals, including women, children, and a Holocaust survivor, were taken captive during the devastating attack on October 7.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul visited Cornell University in response to online threats of violence against Jewish students and institutions, condemning the hate speech and assuring safety measures. The threats were made on the Greekrank website, and Jewish students quickly reported them, leading to a swift police response and increased security. Governor Hochul emphasized the state’s commitment to combating hate crimes and reassured the Jewish community of their support. The FBI was notified of the threats as a potential hate crime, and the state increased monitoring of social media for antisemitic hate speech in the wake of recent global events.
Recap: Mrs. Bowers goes out, and Hope is left babysitting Bonnie. Diana is busy with her friends. Bonnie starts coughing, and Hope realizes Bonnie is very sick. She has croup. Hope knows what to do, because she remembers how Sarah helped her when she was little, and she had it. Later, Mr. Bowers is home and he shows Hope a photo of his late wife who was the real second cousin and Bonnie’s mother. There is also a photo of a girl that looks like the photo Hope had seen before. She learns the photo is of a girl named Alyson and that Alyson is her older sister. Mr. Bowers doesn’t know where Alyson is now. Mr. Bowers is visited by a man who, he finds out, is part of the KKK and he’s looking for Hope and her parents. Mr. Bowers tells Hope to quickly go to the beauty shop and get a haircut to disguise herself.
