Jews on de Blasio’s Inauguration Team

Bill de Blasio is getting ready for his inauguration.

Almost exactly one month before the January 1 date when he’ll take the oath of office, the mayor-elect rolled out his inaugural committee today, a list of names “from all five boroughs, every community and every walk of life,” as his transition team put it in a press release.

Jewish Members of the Inaugural Committee

1.

Rabbi Heshie Dembitzer. Bobover Yeshiva B’nai Zion

L-R: Chaim Sieger hosts NYC mayor-elect Bill de Blasio with askanim Yitzchok Fleischer and Heshie Dembitzer. (Credit: Hamodia)

2. Matthew Hiltzik, Founder, Hiltzik Strategies

3. Yitzchok “Isaac” Leshinsky, CEO, Housing Bridge

4. Jona Rechnitz

Rahr and Jona Rechnitz (credit: NYDN)

5. Ronald Perelman, Chairman and CEO, MacAndrews & Forbes

6. Morris Missry, Partner, Wachtel Missry LLP

7. Jay Eisenhofer, Founder, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.