New York City Councilman David G. Greenfield met with Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Yitzchok Pindrus this week to discuss strategies for combating poverty, including workforce training and affordable housing.
Greenfield, who is the chair of the City Council’s influential Land Use Committee, has met with a series of high-level Israeli officials, including Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and Consul General of New York Dani Dayan. In 2016, he was awarded the Leadership Award from the Israeli Building Center for promoting economic development between Israel and the United States.
Greenfield, who represents more Orthodox Jews than any other local elected official in the world, said “Israel has served as our Jewish homeland for thousands of years. Many of my constituents, including myself, have family and friends who live there. Bringing my expertise to help Israeli citizens is one of the proudest things I can do as a Jewish elected official.”
Greenfield is a passionate advocate for affordable housing and has worked tirelessly to ensure a myriad of new projects in New York City. He presented a number of his ideas to Pindrus during the meeting and shared many thoughts on Jerusalem’s effort to build affordable housing.
“There’s an affordable housing crisis in Jerusalem, just like there is in New York City,” Greenfield said. “We have many of the same constituencies even though they are living half-way across the world. I was thrilled to hear what my counterparts in Jerusalem are doing and share with them some of our innovative efforts.”
Deputy Mayor Pindrus, a senior member of the United Torah Judaism party, shared some of his ideas for improving living standards among the Charedi communities in New York and Jerusalem.
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How about GOING TO WORK,isn’t that the most sensible strategy? this criminal INSANITY that has prevailed the last 60 years in Israel, that whole generations of Jews were brought up with the notion that working is taboo and they all must sit and learn all day,this criminal MESHUGAS has to STOP,it is against TORAH and HALACHA and against normal human behavior,it has spawned generations of poverty stricken families who in order to survive must rely on government subsidies and forced to leave their homes for months and run all over the world to beg for money.
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a good way to combat poverty is to have the president of Met Council on jewish POVERTY not make half a million dollars rather have it go to those actually suffering poverty.