Gubernatorial Candidate at Ohel

By COLlive reporter

Marcus Molinaro, the 2018 Republican candidate for Governor of New York, paid a visit to the Rebbe’s Ohel in the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Cambria Heights, Queens, on Tuesday.

“Today, we knew how important it was to break from the campaign, pray and ask for a blessing – on our world, our nation, state and our families,” Molinaro said in a statement to COLlive.com.

As customary, the Dutchess County Executive wrote down a request for blessings and placed it at the holy Jewish site which is visited by Jewish and non-Jewish people from around the globe.

He was accompanied by Rabbi Hanoch Hecht, head of the Rhinebeck Jewish Center in Rhinebeck, NY and director of Chabad of Dutchess County, and his brother Rabbi JJ Hecht II, Executive Director – Toys for Hospitalized Children.

After leaving the Rebbe’s Ohel, Molinaro stopped by the gravesite of his friends’ grandfather, Rabbi JJ Hecht OBM, a confidant of the Rebbe who led the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE).

Molinaro is facing Governor Andrew Cuomo, described by the New York Times as “the two-term Democrat with a gargantuan campaign war chest and millions of energized Democratic voters in a solid blue state.”

In a recent profile, the New York Times portrayed Molinaro as “young, energetic and accomplished, having once been elected the youngest mayor in the country in Tivoli, the Hudson Valley village where he came of age.”