Borough Park, NY – Before an overflow audience of about 300, candidates for the City Council in the 44th district (recently vacated by Simcha Felder) engaged in an energetic debate last night, each one fiercely and enthusiastically presenting his background, views and plans if elected. The Jewish Press hosted the debate at the Boro Park Y, with a panel of Jewish Press editors asking questions of each of the candidates. Questions were also asked by audience members who passed up their queries on index cards for the moderator, radio personality Nachum Segal to read. The four candidates—David Greenfield, Jonathan Judge, Joe Lazar and Avraham Shlomo Tischler—were vigorous in their presentations, answering a wide-range of questions about such topics as the problems with local services, the lack of affordable housing, keeping taxes down and the blizzard of parking tickets handed out in the district. During the evening, Greenfield cited his work in the advocacy group Teach NYS, Judge touted his experience at Community Board 14, Lazar spoke about his many years in city government and Tischler emphasized his youth and fresh eyes as his greatest qualification. All four candidates repeatedly referred to the specific needs of the Borough Park community and their dedication to the neighborhood. Video Rating: 4 / 5
A live radio broadcast at HiTech 2000 on 13th Ave & 47th Street in Boro Park with Nachum Segal, Lipa Shmeltzer, Shea Mendlowitz, Simcha Felder, Eli Gerstner, Pinny Ringel & Avrumy Shtauber. Dovi Tessler on the keyboard & Glauber on the guitar. Watch more videos at www.mahnishmah.com Thank you N. Newgarten Video Rating: 5 / 5
A live radio broadcast at HiTech 2000 on 13th Ave & 47th Street in Boro Park with Nachum Segal, Lipa Shmeltzer, Shea Mendlowitz, Simcha Felder, Eli Gerstner, Pinny Ringel & Avrumy Shtauber. Dovi Tessler on the keyboard & Glauber on the guitar. Watch more videos at www.mahnishmah.com Thank you N. Newgarten Video Rating: 5 / 5
“A lot of elected officials, activists, a lot of people in the community without getting credit have been involved over the years in helping us help people. I’d like to thank Joe Lazar publicly.” “Not that long ago you could go to the grocery store and get a two pound bread for one dollar on regular a basis, it was a good price. Now there is a sale, for .99, literally twice the price for the same two pound bread which is supposed to be a bargain, which means that families especially large ones, that used to use a staple item like sandwich, peanut butter and jelly, just two pieces of bread which would have been a meal, literally doubled their costs over night. The fact that Masbia is serving hungry and other places, is extradorinary, but what we have to remember is that people are on the brink of hunger without coming into soup kitchens as well, and if we can’t get enough help getting people the money they need to buy their staple items without having to come here, we aren’t doing enough. We want to put Masbia out of business, that’s the ultimate goal. And the only way that will happen is with intervention by the government. As Assemblymen Ortiz, said if they are bailing out everyone else, they have to make sure to bail out the people in trouble.”
Simcha Felder and John Liu talking about unfair parking tickets issued at broken parking meters.
