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| Jeff Leb, NY Director of Political Affairs for the OU; Maury Litwack,
OU Director of State Political Affairs and Outreach; City Council
Speaker Christine Quinn, City Councilman David Greenfield, Sam Sutton,
co-chair of OU Advocacy-Teach NYS, and Nathan Diament, OU Executive
Director for Public Policy. yemach shemom vezechrom |
The OU's press release supporting Quinn YMS who has no problem with banning Milah
July 10, 2013 Roslyn Singer, 212-613-8227
Addressing a crowd of
reform Jewish community, synagogue and day school lay
leaders who convened at the
formally Orthodox Union for the first meeting in a
series of leadership forums with the mayoral candidates
how come you only mention Quinn? , New York City
Council Speaker Christine Quinn
YMS agreed to work with the community on the
issue of security for non-public schools.
where was she for the past 12 years?
of all the candidate Quinn has the worst record on helping Yeshiva parents and also promises the least yet these poshiem are supporting her.
“We’ve heard loud and clear
now that it's an election year that this is an area where the non-public
schools need help,” Quinn said, adding that she would work with the
non-public school community to figure out the details.
During the OU Advocacy-Teach NYS-sponsored leadership forum, Speaker
Quinn also spoke candidly about other issues of importance to the Jewish
community, including aid for religious institutions damaged by
Hurricane Sandy, enhancements to the police department, fair treatment
of special needs children within the education system and improvements
overall to New York City schools
.
Saying “it doesn’t make sense at all” and only adds to the stress and
duress of a family that is already in a stressful situation, Speaker
Quinn said that, as mayor, she would remove the requirement for parents
of special needs children to endure administrative hearings in order to
have their local school district cover the cost of a private school
placement for their child.
Speaker Quinn also spoke about the safety of New York City, stating
that she would increase the size and strength of the police force as
well as work to improve the technology available to the police.
Noting
that New York City has “the best hate crimes task force of any police
department in the country,” Speaker Quinn said, “We should make New York
City the first hate crimes free city in America,” adding that it’s “not
acceptable” that mezuzahs were burned in Williamsburg, or that a man
was killed in Greenwich Village because he was gay
her comparing a mezuzah to a someone who is CHAYAV MISA is insulting and demeaning to the Torah, and the fact that the OU quoted the whole statement shows that they don't believe in whats in the mezuzah VECHARA AF HASHEM , or that Muslims in
New York were attacked after the Boston Marathon.
New York City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn
meets with
reform Jewish community, synagogue and day school lay leaders to
discuss her vision for the city as mayor and address issues of concern
to the Jewish
you mean toevah community.
contact The OU and tell them to fire Jeff Leb (who helped pass toevah "marriage",) Maury Litwack, Sam Sutton, and Nathan Diament.
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