Westchester Honors 120 Of The Rebbe

In the afternoon of Yud Alef Nissan, Westchester County Executive Mr. George Latimer issued a Proclamation bestowing Westchester’s highest honor upon the Rebbe.

In his Proclamation, County Executive Latimer salutes the Rebbe’s global leadership, and the Rebbe’s 4000 Chabad Houses in more then one hundred countries around the world. Together with the Rebbe’s emissaries, serve as “Centers of Light and Illumination”.

The County Executive highlights the Rebbe’s call to action for all citizen of the world to prepare for Moshiach by increasing in acts of goodness and kindness. Thereby hastening the Biblical promised era of universal peace and harmony, between mankind and between nations.

Mr. Latimer proudly recalled how he would join for many years the celebrations honoring the Rebbe’s birthday with the Lubavitch Youth Organization while serving as a member of the New York State Assembly in Albany, the Capital of New York.

The County Executive put a dollar bill into the new silver Charity Box which wad was presented to him by Rabbi Velvl Butman, Executive Director of Chabad Lubavitch of Westchester County. Fulfilling the Rebbe’s message regarding the purpose of money, as the dollar bill states, In G-d We Trust.

Mr. Latimer was inspired by the Rebbe’s message and his new silver Charity Box is now prominently placed on his desk. Mr. Latimer expressed his gratitude for the book Towards A Meaningful Life, especially the chapters on Leadership, Government and Education.

The County Executive was proud to continue the tradition of 28 years which Rabbi Butman began in 1994 with his three predecessors, who each issued Proclamations in honor of the Rebbe.