Former Mayor Giuliani Headlines JCM Dinner
In a large tent set up under the New York sky on Crown Heights’ Kingston Ave., dozens of officials, community leaders, politicians, activists and friends gathered Monday evening to support the Jewish Children’s Museum at its annual gala dinner. Highlighting the event was former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The gala dinner – marking 11 years since the museum opened its doors – was emceed by David Price of WNBC.
In his keynote address, Giuliani spoke about the aftermath of the murder of Ari Halberstam – after whom the museum is named – by an Arab terrorist. “I called Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and told him he has 24 hours to catch the guy, or else I will… we caught the guy in 20 hours.”
Mr. Giuliani was presented the Ari Halberstam Memorial Award. Also honored at the event were Mark and Mathew Engel of Langsam Property Services, who received the Lamplighters Award; Maurice Rosen of Rogoff & Company, who received the Community Builders Award; David J. Feit, who received the Chesed Award; and Jason Hirsch, who received the Young Leadership Award.
A video presentation highlighting the Museum’s activities, produced by Moshe Raskin of Swish Media, was shown at the event:
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that sounds like it was a well packed evening with some real meaning. I would have liked to attend.
Rudy Guliani is an outstanding human being.
GO JCM!
We at the JCM would like to publicly thank all of crown heights for being so accommodating to a organisation who is unwilling to pay for a conventional dining hall and are would rather disrupt the lives of countless members of our community.
Devorah Halberstam
The one who makes the impossible possible!
Wow, huge crowd!
Looks like they had over 75 people attend. Beautiful Kiddush Hashem. Keep up all the great work. Go for it Tzivos Hashem. Loyal supporter.
Anonymous
All the school buses ran late. Traffic was horrendous.. Why would you close a street like Kingston ave for a entire day? Isn’t the any thought about the impact it has on the community?
Close down the service lane.. Be mentchlach!
I agree
So inconsiderate and for what? For the same few bigwigs? The JCM has a decent hall, they should use that. They don’t have money, but they pay for a fancy tent? It’s about time they got their priorities right.
I once read about an organization that put on a beautiful, high end dinner (I think it was a feeding the hungry program), and at the end of the meal the guests heard they had eaten a gourmet meal from restaurant leftovers (not garbage). THAT is effective fundraising & in my opinion, ethical to the cause. Spending so much on a dinner might generate some income, but the bad PR isn’t worth it.
why ?
why was it not in the jcm hall ?
Gershon Yerachmiel
Mixed seating within the four amos of 770!
The Rebbe was against this.