Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson joined New York Coty Council member David Greenfield for a meeting with leading haredi businessmen and activists from the Satmar, Bobov, Belz, and Vizhnitz hasidic sects and from the Sephardic Committee of Boro Park, Flatbush and Williamsburg. Thompson plans on visiting Israel with local haredi and Orthodox leader soon.
Brooklyn DA Meets With Hasidic And Sefardi Activists
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson joined New York Coty Council member David Greenfield for a meeting with leading haredi businessmen and activists from the Satmar, Bobov, Belz, and Vizhnitz hasidic sects and from the Sephardic Committee of Boro Park, Flatbush and Williamsburg.
According to a report in Behadrei Haredim, Thompson reportedly spoke about cracking down on anti-Semitic crimes and on crimes like “knock out attacks” (which at times may be anti-Semitic but at other times are not).
Greenfield reportedly spoke of the warm relations haredim have with Thompson.
In turn, Thompson thanked Greenfield and several of his haredi philanthropist friends for the meeting and for their charitable and community work.
Thompson also said that he plans to go to Israel with haredi confidants soon.
Thompson has been close to Satmar and other haredi leader since his election late last year, and has been surprising weak in his prosecutions of haredi pedophiles and other haredi criminals – including giving the Satmar hasid who threw bleach in anti-abuse activist Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg’s face in an attempt to blind and scar him a sweetheart no-prison plea deal.
[Hat Tip: The Lion.]