William Rapfogel, one of New York City’s most powerful Jewish communal executives, issued an apology on Monday for actions that led the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty to abruptly fire him last week from his longtime position as executive director of the organization. “I deeply regret the mistakes I have made that have led to…
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty has fired longtime executive director William Rapfogel, citing financial irregularities. Rapfogel, a longtime Jewish communal power broker with close ties to New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is under investigation by the New York State Attorney General for financial misconduct. In a statement issued Monday morning, the Met…
The five empty blocks along Delancey Street near the Williamsburg Bridge weren’t supposed to spend 50 years housing parked cars. Yet there stand the parking lots, their half-century-long presence a testament to the political muscle of the Jews of Grand Street in blocking unwanted development on New York’s Lower East Side. But new construction on…
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