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The gorgeous weather was a blessing on Sunday, September 9 for Riverdale Jewish Community Council’s 18th Annual Jewish Heritage Street Fair.  Thousands spent the day on Johnson Avenue between 235th and 236th Streets—schmoozing, buying, learning, eating, and listening to the music of Neshama Carlebach, the Green Pastures Baptist Church Gospel Choir, Pey Daled, and the Riverdale Y Junior Rising Stars. 

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Rabbi Avi Weiss today called for a national “Stop The Violence Day”, to foster a culture of peace and harmony which could stem the kind of brutal violence which stunned our country this past week. A hundred people from the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale gathered to hear his message of urgent concern and hope, and to express their mourning and solidarity with the students, faculty and families of Virginia Tech. More>>>

Twenty-one rabbis, and a Jewish community layperson were arrested at the United Nations Tuesday, demanding that Iran be removed from the international body. The group, organized by AMCHA – Coalition for Jewish Concerns, was arrested by New York City Police and imprisoned for several hours after peacefully crossing over from the public city street to the steps leading down to the United Nations. AMCHA Director, and Rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, Avi Weiss stated in response to his incarceration, "It's a serious matter to step beyond the line, to violate the law. More>>>

TEL AVIV (JTA) – Dean Kamen, the multimillionaire inventor renowned for the Segway personal transporter, came to Israel with a message for teenagers -- careers in science will help make them the rock stars of their generation. read more...

Judaism is the world’s oldest and strangest book club. Essentially we Jews have one book, and when we finish reading it, we turn back to the beginning and read it again, and again and again. We do this throughout our book club’s thousands and thousands of chapters, and we’ve been doing so for over 2,000 years.
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Riverdale Jewish Community Council President Ari Hoffnung and Riverdale Y's President of the Board of Trustees, Miriam Westheimer, and Executive Director, Simon Jaffe, will be on hand to serve up the ceremonial first pour of espresso - a ribbon-cutting "Starbucks Style" - at the grand opening of the new Starbucks store at 3503 Johnson Avenue. Starbucks will be donating $1,000 to the Y for cultural programs. Free beverage and pastry sampling! more

As a senator, part of my job is to craft effective public policies to improve the lives of my constituents.  Every week I wrestle with questions such as: whether direct government funding or individual tax incentives will be a more efficient means of providing health care to the uninsured; whether longer prison sentences or community based addiction treatment will be more likely to prevent recidivism among drug offenders; whether broad based income taxes or charging a higher user fee would be the best way to fund mass transit improvements, and dozens of even more arcane public policy conundrums.

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