Chanukah Celebration At Borough Hall
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall celebrated the eighth night of Chanukah, Tuesday, December 11, outside Borough Hall with a menorah lighting before welcoming members of the Jewish community to a full program marking the eight-day observance. (L-R, front): Gail Eisenberg, executive director of Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council; Jan Fenster, president of Queens Jewish Community Council; and Sam Bloom, of the Board of Directors, Central Queens YM-YWHA; (back row) Rabbi Gerald Solomon, Flushing-Fresh Meadows Jewish Center; Corey Bearak, executive committee chair, Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council; Ben Akselrod, executive director, Jackson Heights-Elmhurst Kehillah; Assemblyman Rory Lancman; Rabbi Sholom Ber Hecht, Sephardic Jewish Congregation of Queens; Marshall; Rabbi Mordechai Hecht, Chabad of the Gardens; Warren Hecht, Board of Directors, Queens Jewish Community Council; Rabbi Zvulunov, Bukharian Jewish Community Center; Rabbi Amnon Khaimov, Congregation Tifereth Israel of Corona; and Yaakov Goldfeder, president, Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula.

Photo by Dominick Totino Office of the Queens Borough President