Real estate developer Jacob Frydman has come out in strong support of the NCFJE.
Frydman was Guest of Honor at the organization’s 76th Annual Awards Dinner, which took place at the Edison Hotel Ballroom in Manhattan, and lent enthusiastic support to the organization’s work in the Jewish community. The real estate mogul, a frequent guest on major news networks, punctuated his enthusiastic support of the NCFJE with a pledge of $180,000.
In a recorded statement, Frydman praised the organization’s flagship Jewish Released Time Program, which sends hundreds of volunteers across metropolitan New York to teach Jewish public school students.
“Find me another organization that mobilizes, literally, an army of young men and women… to engage Jewish children all over metro New York, week after week…”
He also praised the Machon LeYahadus, the organization’s advanced Jewish Studies program for women, which he called “forward thinking” and “ground breaking.”
“The National Committee was decades ahead of the rest of the Jewish world,
to recognize that there were young ladies, and many of them… thirsting for that knowledge.”
NCFJE Chairman, Rabbi Shea Hecht said: “We really could not be more happy with our relationship with Mr. Frydman. He has shown a real concern for the welfare of the community at large, and is the kind of guy that really wants to help. You would think that someone involved with such massive projects is very removed from the concerns of the community, but Jacob is not like that at all. He just an incredibly warm and loving person. I’m really impressed with him.”
“I’m the kind of guy—I do things right, I do things with impact, or I don’t do them,” said Frydman, “I feel very fortunate to have discovered an organization that shares my approach.”
NCFJE was founded in 1941 by the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn to teach Torah to public school students through the Jewish Released Time Program. Today the organization services include crisis intervention and services for at-risk youth. In recent years, the organization has turned its focus upon the economically disadvantaged families in its home community of Crown Heights.
I attended your as usual elegant tasteful dinner! Thank you NCFJE, Rabbi Shea Hecht, Mr Frydman and all the supporters. You all do the most honorable work to
Help meaningful causes. So many have better lives and hopeful futures because of people like you!
NCFJE is a wonderful pillar of the greater Jewish community! Helping one and all without question.
A true friend of education and our children!
Zalman Shneur
Thank you so very much for your beautiful thank you!
Thank you for helping NCFJE that in turn helps so many of us. May Hashem bless 10,000 fold for your generosity!!
Thank you Mr & Mrs Frydman. We are long supporters of the Rabbi’s Hecht’s and they selflessly work for good causes.
BSD, I am a recipient of the tremendous wisdom, kindness and self sacrifice of Rebbe Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson, his successor, this Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rabbi J.J. Hecht who founded the NCFJE at the instruction of the previous Rebbe, and the entire Hecht family, especially Rabbi Yosef Hecht, Rabbi J.J. Hecht’s son in Johannisberg, South Africa, who was the first Chabad Rabbi who I ever met in my life and was one of the two Rabbis who brought me back to Yiddishkeit, Torah and Mitzvos. Also, I learned for many successful years in Hadar HaTorah Rabbi J.J. Hecht’s Yeshiva. My… Read more »
bravo!