The D’Angelo Center of St. John’s University is a beautiful building, with a soaring two-story lobby, glass stairs, and a working fireplace – if you can find it among the labyrinth of the college campus, which is really a small city. But find it I must. The JSA-Emet Challah Bake is not an event to miss. So I ask one student, then another. I’m pointed up a graceful flight of shallow stairs, down a mini-street – seriously, there are green road signs – up a hill, and then I confirm at the door that this is indeed the D’Angelo Center. Then I wander around the cavernous space until I find a staircase to the fourth floor, room 416 B&C. As soon as I push open the door, I know I’m in the right place. For one, shawarma, onion rings, and middle-eastern style salads (heavy on the roasted eggplant and the pickled everything) are being set up on a few side tables. Experience has acquainted me with Emet’s rotating array of...
Click below to read the entire article by Zisi Naimark in the Queens Jewish Link.
