Jewish community organizations and agencies joined with local elected officials, including Senators Frank Padavan and Toby Stavisky, Assembly Member/ Council Member-elect Mark Weprin, Council Members David Weprin and Tony Avella, and Councilman-elect Dan Halloran, to kick off the Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council's 4th Annual �Harmony initiative Winter Coat Drive,� Sunday, December 6, 2009, at the Samuel Field Y, 58-20 Little Neck Parkway, announced Chairman Corey Bearak and President Jack Friedman of the Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council (NEQJCC), which organized the program.

Samuel Field Y, Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation, UJA- Federation of New York, Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, NAACP, HSBC, Members of Congress Gary Ackerman, Anthony Weiner and Gregory Meeks, State Senators Frank Padavan and Toby Stavisky, Assembly Members Barbara Clark, Mark Weprin, Ann Margret Carrozza and Rory Lancman, Council Members David Weprin, James Gennaro, Tony Avella, Leroy Comrie and John Liu and Council Members-elect Dan Halloran and Peter Koo also sponsor the month long drive which runs through January 8, 2010. 

�NEQJCC encourages donations of new and lightly used winder coats at collection points throughout northeast Queens, including the Y,� stated Gail Eisenberg, Executive Director of the NEQJCC, the largest regional Jewish community council in the Greater New York area. 

For more information, please download the flyer or call NEQJCC Executive Director Gail Eisenberg at (718) 225-6750 x247.

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Left to Right: Samuel Field Y Assistant Director Rick Lewis, State Senator Elect Toby Stavisky, NEQJCC Vice President Corinne Steel, Council Member-elect Dan Halloran, State Senator Frank Padavan, Assembly Member Mark/ Council Member-elect Mark Weprin, Council Members Tony Avella and David Weprin, NEQJCC Vice President Ethel Levine and Chairman of its Executive Committee Corey Bearak.  (Photo by Joseph Levine/NEQJCC)

 
(Photo by Joseph Levine/NEQJCC)

NEQCC Vice President Ethel Levine delivers final bundle of coats from Hillcrest Jewish Center where she directed a one day Coat Drive which collected 240 coats for the NEQJCC Coat Drive. (Photo by Joseph Levine/NEQJCC)

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