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Picture of the Day: Hakeem Jeffries Gets JCC Support

Rabbi Eli Cohen and Chanina Sperlin of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council were spotted in this photograph at a support rally for Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat who is launching a bid for congress against 30-year incumbent and fellow Democrat Ed Towns. In is speech, Jeffries swore to defend President Obama, stand up against the Republican party, bring more section-8 housing to the district and secure more funding for the public school system. [Update: Video added.]

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  • Where-s Waldo?

    Oh! I see him! He is in the front row! He’s with his twin brother, Waldonina – who’s davening loudly and trying to push through an illegitimate candidate as Rov! Look out… Waldonina is succeeding!!!!!!!!!!!! Help!!

  • Chanina Sperlin

    “Chanina Sperlin of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council ”?! didn’t we vote him out?

  • don-t like Dems

    read it – stand up against the Republican party, bring more section-8 housing to the district and secure more funding for the public school system

    read it – Chanina goes after money, forget about moral
    We did not vote for him to be in Vaad
    We did not vote for him to go into our pockets

  • Wha....

    This administration has arranged things ‘quite nicely’ in the middle east behind the scenes, and hasn’t stopped pressuring Israel. We’re supposed to vote for someone who will defend Obama!!

  • Who are these people?

    Eli Cohen, Chanina Sperlin? I don’t remember any of them getting elected in this past election.

  • CHLEAKS.COM

    The Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Inc. OVER 10 MILLION DOLLARS from Government grants/contracts in the last three-four years alone, to help the poor and needy of the Crown Heights community.

    How has this money been spent?

    Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Inc. – Contracts from 2006- 2010

    Weatherization Pogrom (WAP)

    2006: $836,276
    2007: $616,450
    2008: $675,450
    2009: $1,126,139
    2009: (Arra) $4,968,935
    2010: $804,243

    TOTAL: $9,027,493

    Division of Housing & Community Renewal (DHCR)

    2006: $65,000
    2007: $65,000
    2008: $87,000
    2009: $82,000
    2010: $70,887

    TOTAL: $369,887

    Project Care/DHCR

    2006: $62,500
    2007: $63,000
    2008: $64,000
    2009: $64,000
    2010: $64,000

    TOTAL: $317,500

    Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS)/ Family Preservation

    2006: $79,900
    2006: $12,500
    2007: $81,000
    2007: $10,500
    2007: $15,000
    2008: $82,000
    2008: $7,000
    2009: $82,000
    2009: $10,000
    2010: $20,000
    2010: $10,000
    2010: $82,000

    TOTAL: $491,900

    Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services/Prevention

    2006: $228,516
    2007: $234,667
    2008: $240,319
    2009: $228,009
    2010: $219,933

    TOTAL: $1,151,444

    Crime Victim Board (CVB)

    2006: $142,951
    2007: $142,951
    2008: $142,951
    2009: $142,951
    2010: $138,808

    TOTAL: $710,612

    Nutrition Consortium

    2006: $50,004
    2007: $50,421

    TOTAL: $100,425

    Department Of Health

    2006: $2,500
    2007: $25,000

    TOTAL: $27,500

    Department of Labor

    2009: $15,000

    TOTAL: $15,000

    Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Services

    2009: $75,000

    Notice: Fiscal year 2011-2012 was not yet included.

  • Dirty Money

    Sperlin Family has been robbing and rapping the community for years.

    The white beards of the CHJCC have been profiting off the Crown heights community, all the while causing machlokes after machlokes to keep us distracted by stupidity (and not pay attention to what they are doing or not doing).

  • CHLEAKS.COM

    Why Are The Politicians Coming To Crown Heights……And Specifically To Chanina Sperlin and Co.?

    There are no votes* from the Crown Heights Jewish Community which can help make it or brake it for any politician, so why are they coming to Crown Heights and why are they pumping millions of dollars in Crown Heights, more specifically, the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Inc. ?

    * In 2010, when the Crown Heights Jewish Community held their own internal elections (for CHJCC), barely 2,000 Crown Heights residents came out to vote and that was “a record smashing turnout!”. Take out the illegal-aliens and those who are not registered to vote and your left with barely 600 eligible voters. Count in all men and woman of the Crown Heights Jewish Community over 18 who are registered to vote and you might have another 300. Even if every eligible voter was registered, the Crown Heights Jewish Community would be outvoted (big time) by the other communities in our voting districts. Bottom-line, politicians are not coming to Crown Heights (Jewish Community) to win the vote, so why are they coming?.

    Chanina Sperlin was voted (big time) out of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Inc. by the Crown Heights Community in 2010 (despite his so called reputation for “political connections”), so why are politicians still showing up at his private home, Mr. Sperlin does not represent the people of Crown Heights?

    Answer: Corruption and Fraud, more specifically, something called Kickbacks.

    Definition Kickback:

    a percentage of income given to a person in a position of power or influence as payment for having made the income possible: usually considered improper or unethical and sometimes illegal.

    A kickback is an official’s share of misappropriated funds allocated from his or her organization to an organization involved in corrupt bidding. For example, suppose that a politician is in charge of choosing how to spend some public funds. He can give a contract to a company that is not the best bidder, or allocate more than they deserve. In this case, the company benefits, and in exchange for betraying the public, the official receives a kickback payment, which is a portion of the sum the company received. This sum itself may be all or a portion of the difference between the actual (inflated) payment to the company and the (lower) market-based price that would have been paid had the bidding been competitive. Kickbacks are not limited to government officials; any situation in which people are entrusted to spend funds that do not belong to them are susceptible to this kind of corruption. Kickbacks are also common in the pharmaceutical industry, as many doctors and physicians receive pay in return for added promotion and prescription of the drug these pharmaceutical companies are marketing.

  • DeClasse- Intellectual

    First of all, it has to be made clear in uncertain terms that Cohen and Sperlin do not represnt the voters of Ctrown heights and that Sperlin was voted out of office.
    Second that the Obama administration’s past policies have been a great failure and that he has broken the bank with his economic polices, failed disaterous astimulas program that rewarded only his pals andtook money away from our failies–how else are we going to pay for everyone will be taxed. Just wait until Obama ccare takes over and tries to run our lives in everything we do.
    and the Obama administration has advocated, of course, censorship.
    So now we have another clone who all he can say is spend all the money we do not have, give everyone a free ride and to hell with the future and anyone who disagrees with Obama like the Republicans and the Tea parties are bad. Good reason to say that Jeffries will not get our vote and Sperlin and company do not speak for the voters of Crown heights.
    How about a candidate that tries to resolve problems in a constructive and inovate way which has been lacking in this Congress.

  • concerned!

    Yechi Jeffries for Rov!!!!
    He is a halachic expert in the laws of sfichas domim and giluei araiyois. Obtaining shimush in avoida zorah!!

  • disappointed

    Anything for publicity including licking the backside of anti semites as long as people’s pockets get lined

  • ceo

    I agree with all the hysterical clever comments above. especially #12, yashar koach.

    how upsetting that this is happening to our shechuna. echhh

  • concerned!

    We sold our own brothers down the river. Mendy Raitport is who I voted for. You do the same. Vote for one of ours in the future. Vote Republican!!!!

  • get real jobs!

    Hopefully, these clowns will be the kiss of death for Jeffries. Nobody takes them seriously, they are both idiots who think they are important. Delusions of grandeur.

    They make it so easy for us to fire at them, don’t they? LOL!

  • frumguy613

    Eli Cohen used to be a Shaliach at NYU. Now he is busy supporting Israel haters.

  • BigBen

    calm down, sperling and cowen are not self-hating jews. they are just two who are trying to curry favor with any politician who will offer them some money. they don’t care what the candidate stands for all they want is to line their own pockets. nevermind that they do not represent Crown Heights and that no one would follow their endorsments.
    Crown Height needs a real PAC (Political Action Committee)