Everybody in Midwood knows Officer Khosh somehow – especially if you text whilst driving. Day in day out he patrols our neighborhood, keeping us safe. Filipp Khosh was born in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine 36 years ago. Like so many others in the former USSR, he grew up in a home with no knowledge of Yiddishkeit whatsoever. In 1992 he immigrated to New York and became a police officer. Khosh then served in the army in Iraq. Upon returning home he rejoined the police force in the 63rd precinct in Brooklyn. And for the last few years, if you talk on your cell whilst driving, you will hear from the law.
But it was a totally different side of Officer Khosh that the community got to experience this week. At 36 years of age, he took the plunge and was zoche to enter into the bris of Avraham Avinu. He tried to explain what prompted him to do it. But no rationalization was satisfactory, or necessary. All said and done the real answer is that despite so many decades of anti religious communist propaganda, the Yiddishe Neshama comes shining through – A Jew wants to do the Will of Hashem. More than anything else this is the living proof that Yiddishkeit will prevail no matter the odds.
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What a beautiful story.
Filipp,
Thanks for your service to the country and to the city.
Mazal Tov on your Bris Milah. May you have a Refuah Sheleimah and May HaShem give you all the blessings.
Mazel Tov!!!! Mazel Tov!!! May Hashem bless you!!
a big mazel tov to him ,and his family and all of klal yisroel!
To our dear officer mazel tov and thank you for giving klal yisreal nachas as after a act like that we realy take pride in being a jew
Mazel Tov! & thank you for your service to us & our country! 🙂
a true moser nefesh for the mitzvah, following in the footsteps of Avrohom Avinu
wow, a Big Mazal Tov, Flip. way to go. it’s not easy, but you did it. you are my mentor and hero. may you continue with your great courage.
Kshaim senichnasto laBris kain tikonais leMaasim Toivim.
Chazak.