By COLlive reporter
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano has a lot on her agenda these days. One of the more pressing issues is cyber-crime which, other than Al Qaeda and the like, represents the “greatest threat and actual activity that we have seen aimed at the west and at the United States.”
“Cyber-crime is already outstripping traditional narcotics,” she recently said, citing a study commissioned by Symantec that put the total worldwide cost of cyber-crime at $388 billion—higher than the global market for heroin, cocaine and marijuana combined.
But she made time on Sunday to address poverty.
Napolitano was the guest of the Annual Legislative Breakfast of the Met Council, one of New York’s largest human services agencies, held at the Roosevelt Hotel with 400 policy makers and Jewish community advocates.
She sat with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and was seen whispering with NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who like her, is heavily involved in counter-terrorism.
But it was a black hatted chassidic man that had her attention.
Jarrod Bernstein, President Barack Obama’s Jewish liaison, came over to Napolitano and introduced his friend R’ Chanina Sperlin, intergovernmental liaison for the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council.
In their brief chat, Sperlin described the Jewish community in Crown Heights to Napolitano who in her previous role as Governor of Arizona became familiar with Chabad activities.
She expressed interest in visiting the Crown Heights neighborhood in the near future.
Other attendees from Crown Heights were Chaplain (Col.) Jacob Goldstein, Chairman of Community Board 9; Rabbi Moshe Weiner, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island; Rabbi Eli Cohen, Executive Director of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council; Eli Slavin, an aide to Rep. Yvette Clarke; Reuven Lipkind, Director of Constituent Services to NYS Senator Eric Adams; and Arna Lipkind, District Manager for NYC Council Member Darlene Mealy.
I would respond to your long winded comment, if only I would have a clue to what you are writting?
The Rebbe was respectFUL to everyone who came to him, but who the Rebbe respectED only the Rebbe knows. How do you know the age the person who wrote that e-mail.
Funny how these politicians show up around election time ya smart guy. Best you stay away from political stuff and not fawn over these folks. The Rebbe was not a politician like yourself. He always did what was correct whether politically correct or not.
I misspelled MAYOR.
Mayor Dinkins. Sorry.
The Rebbe respected all and any official he encountered.
YES, EVEN NAYOR DINKINS, for those of you that just got out of your diapers.
And to those that give of their time to the Khilla, יישר כח
Sliwa and Arpio should run homeland security, would feel much safer by a longshot.
the JCM/FBI is having this whole event on Sunday. if she wants to visit crownheights, wouldn’t that be the perfect opportunity.
The 7th photo:
Rabbi Moishe Weiner of The Coney Island Jewish Community Council.
Rabbi Yeruchem Silver of The Boro Park Jewish Community Council.
The 10th photo:
Willie Rapfogel of Met Council, CEO
The 11th photo:
Rabbi Yeruchem Silber of The Boro ParkJewish Community Council.
Rabbi Alexander Rappaport of the Hamodia
The 15th photo:
Rabbi Moshe Dovid Neiderman of the Williamsburg Jewish community Council.
Rabbi Mordechai Malmik of Gur
B”H,
Lubavich, Satmar, Gur, Visznitz, Litvish, KINUS
Thank you for taking your Sunday (DAY OFF) and being out there lobbying for the Heights.
Great work for our Kehilah!!!!
NF
where are the elected – where is hackner brownstein tamir????/
IM SO IMPRESSED, HOPE THIS HELPS THE CHASSISIC COMMUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!
Hatzlocho.