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Agudas Yisroel’s Siyum On Seder Nashim Joins Thousands In T’filah For Eretz Yisroel And Celebration Of Torah Learning

On Sunday evening, October 29, some 3,000 Jews gathered in Bell Works (Holmdel, New Jersey) to participate in Agudah’s Ki Heim Chayeinu’s Siyum on Daf Yomi Seder Nashim in the year that marks the 100^th anniversary of Rav Meir Shapiro zt”l introducing the concept of the Daf Yomi cycle.

Israeli-Born Legislator Calls for Community Leaders Around New York and Country to Follow Suit and Set a Similar Example

Assemblywoman Nily Rozic unveiled a display on the storefront of her Queens district office calling attention to the over 230 hostages who were kidnapped from Israel on October 7. The hostages – ranging in age from infants to senior citizens – were kidnapped by Hamas during their brutal and inhumane terror attack. Many were kidnapped from their homes or the Nova Music Festival, an event celebrating unity and love.

BIRTHS

David Adler, and Ricky Holder Adler, on the birth of a grandson, born to Jonathan and Risi Finkel of Israel

Shaya and Ariella Adler on the birth of a son. Mazal tov to the grandparents, AJ and Zahava Sabo, Yossi and Pnina Adler, and Benzion and Avigayil Turin.

As a z’chus for klal Yisrael as Jews worldwide grapple with the unfolding situation in Eretz Yisrael, Chaburas V’kroso L’Shabbos Oneg - Kew Gardens, has been formed by a group of like-minded Kew Gardens and Richmond Hill residents. The consortium has a mutual goal of making Maseches Shabbos their “Olam Haba’’ mesechta. The schedule of learning focuses on the completion of an amud-a-day, studied over the course of a week. Shabbos has been designated for chazarah. The program is designed enabling the chaburah to complete the masechta annually.

Rally For Freeing Hostages Held In Forest Hills

With the first signs of the approaching winter, a crowd gathered at McDonald Park in Forest Hills on Sunday, October 22, for a rally in support of freeing our hostages being held in Gaza. The more we speak out as Jews and as human beings, the more our voice will be heard by our political leaders. In a war that has political leaders, groups on college campuses, and self-proclaimed human rights activists condoning the brutal and barbaric murder of babies, children, and the elderly, condoning the annihilation of entire families – for spending the day at a park or music festival or in their own homes – we, not only as part of am Yisrael but those who believe in humanity, must speak out.