The Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council sponsored five events during Chanukah, including its annual lighting of the borough's largest Menorah with the Chabad of Eastern Queens (Dec. 9), a Menorah lighting on the first night of Chanukah at the Chabad of Northeast Queens in Bay Terrace (Dec.4), a ceremony at Queens Borough Hall (Dec. 11), and community-wide parties at the Samuel Field Y (Dec. 2) and with the Chabad of Little Neck (Dec. 9) at Bellerose Jewish Center.  As pictures become available, find them in this section.

The December 9 Menorah Lighting and celebration featured City Councilman David Weprin and James Gennaro, State Senator Frank Padavan, State Assemblymen Mark Weprin and Rory Lancman .  

Queens Borough President Helen Marshall hosts the upcoming December 11 program also sponsored by six Jewish organizations including the Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council., Chabad of the Gardens, the Flushing Jewish Community Council, the Jackson Heights-Elmhurst Kehillah, the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula, and the Queens Jewish Community Council..

Chanukah at Borough Hall

Borough President Helen Marshal, NEQJCC Chair Corey Bearak and First Vice President Helene Zaro, and Queens JCC Exective Vice President Warren Hecht (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

(L-R, front): Harvey Gordon, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula; Judith Friedman Rosen, Chair, Central Queens YM-YWHA; Helene Zaro, Vice President, Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council; Rabbi Gerald Solomon, Flushing-Fresh Meadows Jewish Center; Gail Eisenberg, executive director of Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council; Corey Bearak, executive committee chair, Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council; Ben Akselrod, executive director, Jackson Heights-Elmhurst Kehillah; Assemblyman Rory Lancman; Jan Fenster, president of Queens Jewish Community Council; Queens Borough President Helen Marshall; Rabbi Mordechai Zev Hecht, Chabad of the Gardens; Warren Hecht, Executive Vice President, Queens Jewish Community Council; Sam Bloom, of the Board of Directors, Central Queens YM-YWHA;  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 Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

After the Menorah Lighting NEQJCC Executive Director Gail Eisenberg and Chair Corey Bearak with Borough President Helen Marshall and Assembly Member Rory Lancman.  (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

Queens Jewish Community Council board members and staff with the Borough President and Assemblyman Lancman.  (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

Rabbi Gerard Solomon, Flushing-Fresh Meadows Jewish Center. (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

Deputy Borough President Karen Koslowitz introduced the "BP".  (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

The Borough President welcoming us into :our house.  (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

Rabbi Mordechai Zev Hecht of the Chabad in the Gardens presents the Borough President with a Menorah.  (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

Susie Tanenbaum, besides her multitude of other duties is the Borough President's liaison to our community.  (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

Harvey Gordon, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula.  (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

NEQJCC Chair Corey Bearak talks of the Council's program under the watchful eye of Executive Director Gail Eisenberg and First Vice President Helene Zaro.  (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

Corey Bearak (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

Rabbi Michael Miller of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater New Yorker.  (Photo by Joseph Levine, NEQJCC)

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