The horror and grief that has assailed our community over the past week was felt throughout the city and around the globe. People all over the world sighed with disbelief when the shocking reports were released last Tuesday. In fact, Misaskim received inquires and offers of assistance from London, Israel, Australia, South Africa, Germany, and [...]

The horror and grief that has assailed our community over the past week was felt throughout the city and around the globe. People all over the world sighed with disbelief when the shocking reports were released last Tuesday. In fact, Misaskim received inquires and offers of assistance from London, Israel, Australia, South Africa, Germany, and [...]

The Misaskim organization, most famous for the daily services that it provides to grieving families, has recently expanded its services by implementing a Shabbos Hotline, staffed by especially-trained non-Jews, to help coordinate any situations regarding k’vod hameis that should arise on Shabbos. This past weekend, true to the Misaskim slogan that reads “Im Hachaim …,” [...]

[PHOTO LINK BELOW] At 9:00 AM on a recent Thursday morning, R’ Aaron Pomp was wheeled into the operating room at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He was about to perform the ultimate act of chesed –  donating a kidney to Mordechai Aryeh ben Chana Freida, a person he has never met. And while [...]

Last week, the Turkeltaub sisters – Brenda Elishis, Paula Kohn, and Cindy Turkeltaub –Grosberg a”h – alongside Misaskim volunteers, welcomed the 19th sefer torah to join Misaskim’s family of sifrei torah. A joyous Hachnasos Sefer Torah was held at the Ohr Torah Shul in West Orange NJ. The Turkeltaub sisters donated the sefer torah in [...]

During these hours of deep sadness and grief over the tragic death of Yoily Englander, a”h, Misaskim feels compelled to wrap up the heartrending task they were called upon to do, by publicly thanking the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office. While law enforcement and medics were working the accident scene that claimed the life of [...]

[By M.C. Millman] Rockland TMS & Wellness Center at the Bikur Cholim of Rockland County in Monsey, NY has recently acquired a new FDA approved device to be used for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).  TMS, approved for the treatment of depression, is a new alternative that uses magnetic waves to stimulate the body to heal itself.  [...]

Many people still view psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists through a grey or colorless prism. To some, such professionals are often misunderstood as being individuals very clinical with a lacking in personality! Nothing could be further from the truth – at least with OHEL’s mental health professionals, and a new video, “The Many Faces of OHEL Mental [...]

[PHOTO LINK BELOW] The Skulener Rebbi Shlit”a along with other Rabbanim, all of whom are well aware of how the economic crisis has hit the Boro Park Community, gathered together to strengthen Kupas Hachesed of Boro Park and to brainstorm how to possibly save our community from drowning in a river of debt. Kupas Hachesed of [...]

We have all seen the annual Purim Hatzolah ads asking parents and Yeshivas to teach the real message of simchas Purim and be responsible. Two years ago on Purim night a mini-revolution happened that addressed this issue. A group of very special Baalei Battim sponsored bochurim from Yeshiva Torah Temimah to sit and learn for two [...]