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Recap: Bayla and Sophie travel to a different city in England to spend Shabbos with Tante Aimee’s elderly cousin who just lost her grandson. He was shot down by Germans. She is caring for her young great-granddaughter Aliza, but realizes that it’s not working well and she plans to send her back with Sophie and Bayla to live with them. Aliza is not an easy child, and Bayla worries how it will work out.

HaKadosh Baruch Hu saves Israel from the hands

Of scores of villains, with dastardly plans.

There’s a new book of insights for the yamim nora’im, authored by longtime Kew Gardens Hills resident and maggid shiur, Rabbi Ephraim Meth. The book, Life Lessons for the Yamim Nora’im, is available on Amazon.com. It goes from Rosh haShanah through Hoshana Rabbah, and addresses questions we often wonder about, but rarely articulate; for instance: Even if nuts have the same gematria as sin, we’re not eating sins – we’re eating nuts!

With Rosh Hashanah just weeks away, many are thinking about how to make the holidays at least semi-normal. Shul is limited. So are guests. But thanks to the actions Empire Kosher took when the pandemic began, Jewish cooks can be pretty confident of having a proverbial chicken in every Yom Tov pot. There won’t be a mad dash or panic over how to keep employees safe—the system is already in place.

Dr. Schechter: 

1. I just took an antibody test and I was told that two kinds are tested, IgM and IgG. What is the difference?

Recap: Bayla brought the young doctor assistant to the shelter, and he had a brand new medicine that had cured the President’s son and he gave it to Mimi. The next morning, she was better.