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Chabad on Campus of Queens brought the Let Here Be Light tour and Nissim Black to Queens College.  “It was really cool to meet so many different Jews on campus and enjoy music together,” said QC Freshman Danielle Weingarten

Three years after the launch of Kehillas KGH, the membership partook in a joyous hachnosas sefer Torah timed to usher in the new year. The beautiful event drew a crowd of 300 to 73rd Avenue between 147^th and 150^th Streets in Kew Gardens Hills. The story of Queens’ newest shul warms the heart and exemplifies Kew Gardens Hills’ signature growth-oriented atmosphere.

The Lemle Clinic Will Assess and Treat Patients & Promote Understanding of NVLD

On Sept. 16, Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology launched The Lemle Clinic, a first-of-its-kind clinic dedicated to assessing and treating the challenges that individuals with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NVLD) experience. This groundbreaking clinic, located in Ferkauf’s Rousso Building at 1165 Morris Park Avenue in the Bronx, marks a significant advancement in the care and understanding of NVLD.

Rozic Allocated $15,000 in State Funding for Jewish Culture Classes and Workshops

Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D,WF-Fresh Meadows) is announcing a state grant of $15,000 that she allocated to the Young Israel of Hillcrest to fund adult education programs about Jewish history, tradition, and modern life open to members of the synagogue as well as to the community-at-large.

Argentinean-born Rabbi David Algaze of Congregation Havurat Yisrael in Forest Hills discussed his research about Spanish Jewish history and his work with Latin people becoming Jews.

Since the launch of Mayor Adam’s e-scooter program in Northeast Queens, the office of New York City Council Member James F. Gennaro has gotten a lot of feedback from community members, who are overwhelmingly unhappy about how the e-scooter program has impacted their quality of life. Council Member Gennaro stated, “E-scooters have no place in our community. Not only do they pose a major hazard to both its operators and pedestrians, but they are also often left haphazardly on sidewalks and streets, creating dangerous obstacles on our sidewalks. It is clear from all this feedback that the Department of Transportation, DOT, and their stakeholders are failing in their promise to hold customers accountable when they finish their rides and ditch the scooters in the middle of the sidewalk, or on private property.” In an interview this past week with WPIX, Channel 11 News, Gennaro called the program “a blight and a menace.”