The New York governor’s mansion now displays a Mezuza on its doorpost, thanks to a donation from HAFTR Yeshiva high school in Far Rockaway.
The mansion’s current occupant, Andrew Cuomo, tweeted a photo of the Mezuza hanging at the building in Albany.
“May this protection extend to all the people of New York”, Cuomo wrote.
Thank you to the STEM students from @OfficialHAFTR for this beautiful mezuzah now gracing the Governor’s mansion. This is a long-standing Jewish symbol of protection. May this protection extend to all the people of New York. pic.twitter.com/JaBspQK2uV
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 15, 2018
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anything to get funding
Hopefully it’s just the case and there’s no parsha inside.
mezuza on a non jew’s door post??? What’s next, talis and Tefiilin [previous posuk]?
or maybe a mikva, sukka, …….
if your getting money you can put whatever you want inside welcome to the world of jewish education,
I heard from a reliable source that there’s a kosher mezuza inside the case. I don’t know what they were thinking when they chose to do this.
I was under the impression that it is not permitted to permanently give over a mezuzah to a non-Jew for fear that it may come to not be treated with respect. Is that not true?
it is not permitted. I hope Koch removed his before Dinkins moved in
What a kiddush Hashem!?
THE HALACHA FORBIDS LEAVING A MEZUZA ON A HOUSE OWNED BY A GOY
HAFTR is located in Cedarhurst.
Kiddush litvish!
Chillul Hashem!
I protest strongly against the outrage.
It does not belong in a governmental building.
It is a Jewish sacred religious object.
We are in golus.
Especially so, it is a desecration since NYS just a few short years ago, with the strong arm highly questionable tactics of the same Governor, pushed into law abomination legislation, when it redefined marriage in a way in opposition to our sacred Biblical heritage.
A state in open defiance of G-d’s law should not think that displaying a scroll of G-d’s law, which it brazenly violates, will give it protection from Heavenly justice.