On December 2, I had the pleasure to attend a special Melavah Malka at the Beth Gavriel Center in Forest Hills. The public was invited to honor the community, its Bukharian Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchak Israeli, and the special guest from Jerusalem, Rabbi David Yosef, son of the late Rav Ovadia
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