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The
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC-NY)
recently celebrated its 40th Anniversary
with a gala awards dinner at the Pierre Hotel in New York
City. Honorees for the evening included Joshua
L. Muss and Jason A. Muss, of Muss Development, LLC; Edward
Skyler, Executive Vice President for Global Public
Affairs, Citi; and Ronald
G. Weiner, President, JCRC-NY, Chairman and President,
Perelson Weiner LLP.
More than 500 guests joined in celebrating
these community leaders including Israeli
Consul General Ido Aharoni, Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYC
Comptroller Scott Stringer, NYPD Commissioner William J.
Bratton and Speaker
of the NYC Council Melissa Mark-Viverito as
well as, former Mayor
David Dinkins, former NYC Schools Chancellor Dr.
Rudy Crew, Alisa
Doctoroff, George
Arzt, Ken
Sunshine and Mitchell
Moss. Former
presidents of JCRC-NY, Martin Begun, Kenneth Bialkin, Judah
Gribetz, Gedale Horowitz, Ezra Levin, Matthew Maryles,
Richard Ravitch, Janice Shorenstein, and Founder George
Klein also attended the gala.
Jeffrey Levine, the Chairman of Levine
Builders and Douglaston Development presented the Generation
to Generation Award to Joshua
L. Muss and Jason A. Muss, of Muss Development, LLC. The
next award, the Corporate Leader Award, was presented to Edward
Skyler, Executive Vice President for Global Public
Affairs, Citi, by JCRC Board Members, who also served as
Gala Co-Chairs, Jarrod Bernstein and Jennifer Falk. The
final award, the JCRC-NY Leadership Award, was presented to Ronald
G. Weiner, President, JCRC-NY, Chairman and President,
Perelson Weiner LLP, by Michael S. Miller, Executive Vice
President & CEO of the JCRC-NY. Near the end of the gala,
the new logo for the JCRC-NY was unveiled to all those in
attendance.
About JCRC-NY
The Jewish Community Relations Council of
New York (JCRC-NY) is the central coordinating body and
resource organization for the Jewish Community in the
metropolitan New York area. Founded in 1976, its mission is
to build bridges and establish working relationships within
its own community, with other ethnic and faith communities,
and with public officials and government agencies. These
relationships serve to strengthen the communal underpinnings
of the metropolitan New York area for the benefit not only
of the Jewish community, but of all New Yorkers.
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