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It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Mrs. Sarah Grylak a”h over Shabbos. She was 81.
Mrs. Grylak was the wife of Rabbi Moshe Grylak, veteran writer and editor of the Mishpacha Magazine.
Mrs. Grylak was ill the last two years.
Mrs. Grylak was born in Poland on the 28th of Teves in 1938 to her parents, Rabbi Zvi Yosef and Mrs. Esther Grylak. She was a niece of the Ozherover Rebbe, Rav Moshe Yechiel HaLevi Epstein zt“l.
For years, she lived with her husband in Tel Aviv. Thirty years ago, they moved to the Har Nof neighborhood of Yerushalayim.

The Trump administration has invited Jewish leaders over for a briefing on “pertinent” issues.
“Gathering with Jewish leaders,” an invitation viewed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency says. “You are invited to a discussion with key Administration officials on pertinent issues impacting the community.”
It’s not clear how many Jewish leaders are invited to the meeting set for Tuesday, or what the “pertinent” issues are, or who the “key officials” are.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Dear Matzav Shmooze,
We recently went to Columbia Hospital with a baby who was seriously ill and the first question as we walked through the door was not what emergency we have but what zip code we live in.
The staff then stopped us in the hallway made us put on masks and wait for the whole ER staff to get masks on. The 3 EMT’S and two parents were treated like contaminated people from a 3rd world country rushed into a isolation room before being asked why we are here  – thank God we had a stable patient.
I’m not blaming the hospital and I’m not even sure who to blame but it was a very uncomfortable experience. I’m pretty sure that a non Jewish EMS unit would not be asked what zip code they are coming from.

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Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday honored the memory of the 11 Jewish worshippers who were killed in October 2018 at the Tree of Life Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
The joint session in the state’s House of Representatives in the capital, Harrisburg, was attended by nearly two-dozen relatives of the victims.
The opening prayer was conducted by Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of the New Light Congregation, which was one of the three services taking place at the synagogue during the shooting.

Elan Carr was sworn in on Thursday as the U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo administered the oath of office to Carr, who placed one hand over a Hebrew Bible, or Tanach, that was held by his wife, Dahlia. The secretary remarked that the Iraq War veteran and attorney was chosen for “fierceness and vigor that he’ll bring to combating anti-Semitism,” according to a source at the event, which was closed to the press.

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Mayanei Hayeshua opens Pediatric Psychiatric Department
Mayanei Hayeshua’s Mental Health Center now boats a new in-patient Department of Pediatric Psychiatry. The Department caters to children between the ages of 12 and 18 and includes two separate wards: one for girls and one for boys, and is headed by Dr Leonid Kikinzon, a senior psychiatrist who has worked in several major Israeli hospitals and is the author of several scientific papers.

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire again for defending the decision of schools to send students to a festival which featured a campaigner who vandalized the Warsaw Ghetto.
According to investigative journalist Iggy Ostanin, Corbyn slammed the British Board of Deputies for considering banning eight schools from attending the Tottenham Palestine Literary Festival in 2011, where one of the speakers was Ewa Jasciewicz, an activist who spray-painted “Free Gaza and Palestine” on the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto in 2011.
“The Board of Deputies are hardly objective in this matter. Their record of denunciation of all things Palestinian is well known,” Corbyn told the Islington Tribune at the time.