Jan 5, 2013
How Can We Help Our Community
From the COLlive Inbox: Yossi Stern of Crown Heights writes, "I have seen many community members raise the issue of problems facing our community, and then complain that our leadership is not doing enough to correct things."
Dear community members,
I am writing to you to discuss the concerns and issues facing our community.
Time and again, I have seen many community members raise the issue of problems facing our community, and then complain that the community leadership is not addressing it, or they are not doing enough to correct things.
Even when problems are addressed, we complain about the steps taken to correct them, and whether they are effective. I have watched this happen over and over again, for many years.
And our community needs are many. For example, how many affordable housing units are available for our community? How many police officers were removed from our local precinct to other precincts over the last few years? How much public funding does our community receive for our schools and kindergartens? How much funding is invested in our community for healthy living, healthy dieting?
And the list can go on and on... with some, but not enough, coming our way in terms of government assistance.
And the biggest question is, when you look at other Jewish communities, such as Boro Park, Williamsburg, and Flatbush: why are these communities receiving per capita a lot more city, state and federal funding for their communities' needs and municipalities?
Our community is growing and needs the help from our city, state and federal agencies. We CAN change the cycle of poor services and our complaints. We CAN start to receive what our community needs and deserves. How? By supporting our hard-working politicians (like they do in other communities) and start to see a real and lasting change in our community.
Because even though we are getting services, it is just not enough. The politicians who have worked hard for our community need to be recognized and supported so that they see we appreciate and support their efforts. By doing so, we will encourage them to advocate even more for our community.
This is why my wife and I have organized a beautiful fundraiser for Senator Eric Adams, to take place Wednesday, January 9, at our home, 1486 Union St., Brooklyn, NY.
NYS Senator Eric Adams has worked tirelessly in supporting our community over the years. Eric Adams is now running for Brooklyn Borough President, we need to come out and support him. We need to show Eric Adams we appreciate and acknowledge the hard work he has performed for us in the past.
We, as a community, cannot continue to watch the same cycle of poor services and then complain on the sidelines about it.
Join us at our event, and come out to support and encourage our hard working politicians - and start to see a real and lasting change in our community.
Sincerely,
Yossi & Idii Stern
Thank you yossi and idii stern
i will try to attend.
to #4: very cute!!!
a gut voch
NOTHING!!
Therefore I see no reasen to support him. But there are plenty of reasen to vote against him:
- He voted yes on G*... marriage.
- Pro-Abortion, even for pre-born humans under 3 months, in ALL cases
- He believes adoptions agency's shouldn't be allowed to deny G... couples from adopting the poor child. He believes it's discrimination and doesn't care about the fact that the kid won't grow up to be a normal child
- He is the biggest advocate in the NY sanate for banning guns; which means that criminals (which dont care about laws, and will get them anyways) will feel safer mugging you and killing you, because you have no way to self-defense.
- He is anti- business.
- He believes that if you worked hard and were successful,
you probably aren't a fair person and most of your money should be taking away.
- He is against school voucher's because he want's incompetent union teachers to keep their job's. That unions will support his campaign....
He does NOT care about you. He DOES cares about himself and His selfish pockets.
I would like to thank Collive, for being a fair and neutral site (most of the time), for posting this comment even though it might not 100% in their self-intrest
Your friend from Toronto
2. Please xpleain why I should gove money to a campaign. If elected , isn't he our representative and paid for by his salary which is convered by my taxes? Is this simply a bribe?
Our support will be taken for granted, if we keep voting for the same politicians. They will have no reasen to support us, because they will get our support in any case, no matter what they do.
It is therefore necessary, one's in a while, to go off from tradition and vote against the legislator.
Now did you know that Eric Adams is the biggest supporter of gun control. What does that man for you?
That next time a criminal (who doesn't care about gun laws) want's to set up a mugging in crown heigts, he will be at a huge advantage. Since he has a gun and his victim doesn't, he will feel safe mugging you at gun point and you will have no way to self defense.
I wouldn't want to support Eric Adams, even if he where against Al Sharpton. You shouldn't support any politicians that is willing to give the criminal the advantage (Gun).
All his votes are on record for the rest of time.
#23 wrote: "And you defiantly have no clue the way politics works."
You mean I don't know that to be a politician one must lie and play doubled faced? I do know that.
If it's something else (other then lying and being doubled faced), then please educate us, right here right now.
"Pro-Abortion, even for pre-born humans under 3 months, in ALL cases"
Your probably meant Pro-Abortion, even for pre-born humans OVER 3 months, in ALL cases
There will always be someone who tried to knock you down when you try to do the right thing.
Yossi you have always been a true advocate for the Crown Height Community, whether it was through Shmira or your own block association. Some of us truly appreciate all the good that you do, you never seem to care what people think of you or the negative feed back that articles such as this get, and yet you continue to do what you feel is best for the Crown Heights Community.
Again Thank you Yossi Stern for all that you do, this community needs more people like you and less of all the people who only have negative comments to make. Please notice that you dont see anyone here who has made a negative comment taking any other action to help better our community.
May you continue to strive and be successful in all your endevours.
But donating to this man's political campaign, will only make matter's worse. One's Eric adams has the power, he will institute all his beliefs. Something, we would not like to happen.
I for one, agree with Yossi Stern, We must show up to this event. But when we show up we shall not keep quit with our disappointment in him. We shall be straight forward with him. We shall tell him that we highly disagree with his positions. That we are deeply disappointed on his recored with G marriage, abortion and gun control.
One last thing: if we do go to the event, we should defiantly NOT make any political contribution's. That would just send him a massage, that we don't care about what he does, we'll just always support him anyway. Now that, is no help to our community!
Are you kidding me?
Who is supposed to pay for this public funding? It doesn't come from nowhere, it comes from OUR tax money!
Are you suggesting an increase in the already over-excessive taxes?
One can always find negative if we look for it; but being that this site is a public forum, we should be weighing our words as many from the outside DO read these comments. In addition, we do live in a diverse society (not all life takes place in our dalet amos only) and as Jews, besides the mitzva of Kiddush Hashem, we will get much farther by showing a little hakaras hatov rather than finding fault.
It is therefore critically important that we do not support politicians that don't represent our values.
It's NOT about "haters and critics". It is about our community and our future!
I didn't notice any haters in the comments here. You must be projecting.
As for critics, yes, there are critics and that's good. People are practicing their right to free speech, this is why we have the comments to begin with.
Why must those who disagree with you and your views be labeled "haters". Are you trying to intimidate people in to not criticizing you?
Why is any view different from yours labeled "Negative", as a frum Jews I actually see those comments who are not in support of Eric Adems as a positive thing (Some people have some great points regarding his record).
His record you want? Yea on G** marriage vote. (why do we have to say everything 1000 time's?) That's alone is enough of a reasen for you to get out, and PUBLICLY oppose Eric Adams.
Yossi stern was talking about what Boro Park does. Yep, they don't only vote against the politician that voted yes on G** marriage. They oppose almost all candidate's from the G** marriage (Democratic) party
When I wrote: "And you defiantly have no clue the way politics works."
I was saying, that the worse thing we can do, is support a politician that has constantly voted against our wishes.
That being said, Yossi did an amazing thing by organizing this event. Yossi organized this event for us to share our thoughts and concerns with out senater.
The donations are not a must, so we shall not give them because at the end of the day Eric adams betrayed us and we do not want to give him a massage, that it went unnoticed
Picture of the Day! - Senator Gives $2.7 Million to CHJCC!
New York State Senator Eric Adams recently met with Dr. Harvey Lang and Shmuel Plotkin, representing the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council to hand over a $2.7 million dollar stimulus package to provide jobs in the community. Jobs in the city's Housing Department are available through the Council.
Public Advocate Bill De Blasio, State Senators Eric Adams and Karim Camara, City Council Member Latisha James and other elected officials gathered with key advocates in Crown Height's Hasidic community to call for an investigation into an incident caught on video they feel showed NYPD officers using
who actually received assistance from those funds?
But money is not what matters (in this case)...
Let's follow the lead of boro park and other jewish communities. Which in 2011 voted in Bob Turner to the U.S. Congress and in 2012 voted David Storibon into the NY state senate.
Bob Turner was running for congress against a JEW, in a district that was 2/3 democrat, and he won! Why? Because his opponent voted YES on G** marriage.
Same thing with David Storbin. His opponent was known for helping the community with money - he probably gave more then 2.7 million.
Why did a heavy democratic district vote Storobin? Because his opponent, Lewis Fidler, supported G** Marriage.
Wan't to have the same support Boro Park gets? Then don't support candidates that vote against your values!
That case was such a miscarriage of justice, that like you said, we even had politicians form out of crown heights, coming to support us.
Most African American's are actually against G** marriage or they don't care about this issue at all. There is a minority that want it to be recognized. On the hand, we all know, that 99% of Orthodox jews are 100 percent against G** marriage. Eric Adams knew the above fact's. Yet he went ahead and against his district's wishes, voted Yea on G** Marriage.
Was this advertized to the people of Crown Heights?
Would not the CHJCC boost about their accomplishments?