On Monday April 26th, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and the Brooklyn Jewish Heritage Committee hosted Brooklyn Jewish Heritage Night: A Salute to Israel, at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Each year Borough President Markowitz recognizes the contributions and achievements of Jewish individuals in every aspect of American culture.

“New York City has the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel, about a million. And Brooklyn has the largest Jewish population in the city, almost half a million, twice as many as Manhattan, making us the Jewish capital of America,” said Borough President Markowitz. “Brooklyn has more than its fair share of great Jews, and we will honor a few of them tonight.”

This year he honored Chaim Deutsch, President of the Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol; David Glass, a Jewish war veteran; Douglas H. Jablon, special assistant to the president and vice president of Patient Relations at Maimonides Medical Center; and Miriam Lubling, president and founder of Rivkah Laufer Bikur-Cholim.

Also, as a part of the Borough of Brooklyn’s ongoing Jewish Heritage commemoration, an exhibit entitled “The World Around Me” is on display in the Community Room gallery of Borough Hall. The exhibit is curated by the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA), and is on display through April.