{"id":198235,"date":"2026-04-15T16:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:32:41","slug":"new-torah-celebrated-at-friendship-circle-of-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198235\/","title":{"rendered":"New Torah Celebrated at Friendship Circle of Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt-desktop\">The Crown Heights community gathered for a moving and joyous Hachnasas Sefer Torah at Friendship Circle of Brooklyn\u2019s Center, celebrating the dedication of a Torah to their weekly Minyan amidst music, dancing, and so much joy. <a class=\"read-more-main-single read-more-main\" href=\"https:\/\/collive.com\/new-torah-celebrated-at-friendship-circle-of-brooklyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The Crown Heights community gathered for a moving and joyous Hachnasas Sefer Torah at Friendship Circle of Brooklyn\u2019s Center, celebrating the dedication of a Torah to their weekly Minyan amidst music, dancing, and so much joy.<\/p>\n<p>The Torah was dedicated in memory of Chaya Kirsh A\u201dH, a devoted volunteer whose giving heart reflected the very essence of Friendship Circle. Her legacy will now be forever connected to a Torah that will be read from, danced with, and cherished for generations.<\/p>\n<p>After the Torah was completed and the 10 Pesukim were recited, everyone joined together for lively dancing and Hakafos, filling the Center with excitement, warmth, and simcha.<br \/>This is the third Sefer Torah to be gifted to the FC Minyan.<\/p>\n<p>A heartfelt thank you to everyone in the community who came out to celebrate this special occasion.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/EeU5Vt0j6PPGMXHt0itb3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n                      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WACo_600.gif\"\/><br \/>\n                      <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Crown Heights community gathered for a moving and joyous Hachnasas Sefer Torah at Friendship Circle of Brooklyn\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,78996,102,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-198235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-chaya-kirsh","12":"tag-crown-heights","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}