By COLlive reporter
Newly elected Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz visited the Rebbe‘s Ohel in Queens Thursday to thank the Rebbe for her win following a challenging election.
Katz was accompanied by her longtime friend Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky of Chabad Headquarters and Director of Merkos Suite 302, and Rabbi Eli Blokh, Shliach in Rego Park, Queens.
Katz began her term as District Attorney on January 1, 2020. A born-and-raised Queens resident, she has served as an assemblymember, a New York City councilmember, the Queens borough president and, now, as the district attorney of Queens, where the Ohel Chabad Lubavitch is located.
She has taken office at a critical time, when criminal justice reform is at the forefront of local politics, and after decades-long resistance to many of the changes taking place in the criminal justice system citywide by her predecessors.
During the election, Katz had visited the Rebbe’s Ohel to pray for her success, and today she visited to express her thanks to the Rebbe for his blessing.
Katz wrote a pan note to the Rebbe, asking for a blessing for success in her job of keeping the residents of Queens safe and upholding justice in the borough.
She then stopped to light a candle outside the Ohel before praying at the Rebbe’s gravesite.
During her visit, Katz remarked that she was impressed to see the large amount of teenagers from around the world who were visiting the Ohel as part of the CTeen Shabbaton, which takes place in New York this weekend.
