Breaking Ground And Sharing Memories At Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center
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At Sunday’s groundbreaking ceremony for the KFHEC in Boro Park
Members of the Kleinman family
Popular singers Eli and Rivie Schwebel, along with the Mezamrim Choir, performed two heartfelt songs—“In a Vinkele” and “Acheinu Kol Bais Yisrael.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was in Boston for a conference, sent a recorded video in which he spoke about the rampant anti-Semitism taking place today around the world and stressed the necessity of studying history. The mayor went on to congratulate KFHEC founder and president Elly Kleinman and predicted that in a city that has always been a home to so many immigrant groups, KFHEC will play an important role in serving the community and the city.
This was clearly a momentous occasion for Mr. Kleinman, who has nurtured and supported this project for more than seven years. He thanked Shlomo Chaimovitz, KFHEC’s vice-president, for shouldering the burden with him to make the KFHEC a reality. He praised Rabbi Eliezer Horowitz and the members of Agudath Israel Zichron Moshe for their vision in incorporating a Holocaust education center into their shul’s building. He acknowledged Rabbi Friedmann’s directorship of the KFHEC and thanked the organization’s talented staff.
In his remarks, Mr. Kleinman cited a chilling halachic question posed to Rav Ephraim Oshry, z’l, by a 12-year-old boy in the Kovno Ghetto who wanted to begin putting on tefillin even before his bar mitzvah. He then spoke about the KFHEC’s international projects already in development that will have a worldwide impact. Mr. Kleinman became visibly moved when speaking about his family’s Holocaust experiences and about his mother, Mrs. Ethel Kleinman, who survived Auschwitz and was in attendance at the groundbreaking event. Elaborating on the responsibility of educating our children and grandchildren about the Holocaust, he stated, “It’s not enough to say ‘Never again’—we must also never give up.”
Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler, rosh yeshiva at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, referring to the tragedy of the previous day, linked the seven young “korbanos” to the six million kedoshim killed by the Nazis. It was a “mini-Holocaust,” he said, giving us just a tiny glimpse of what happened to our nation 75 years ago. He was followed by Rav Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe, who stressed the importance of feeling another Jew’s pain.
At the close of the event, Kaddish was recited by Mr. Benny Fishoff, a Holocaust survivor and major KFHEC benefactor. Mr. Fishoff has explained his dedication to the KFHEC project by saying, “I waited all these years to be able to tell my story so that it will be remembered not just by my own grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but by Klal Yisrael.” Three generations of Fishoff family members and four generations of Kleinman family members attended the event. Finally, Abish Brodt sang “Ani Ma’amin” in his inimitable fashion.
In addition to Rabbi Kotler and Rabbi Perlow, the list of distinguished speakers also included Rav Mechel Steinmetz, the Skverer Dayan, and NYC Councilman David Greenfield. The front section designated for VIPs was graced by a number of other rabbanim and admorim, including Rabbis Yaakov Bender (rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah), Yitzchok Isaak Friedman (Tenker Rav of Flatbush), Aryeh Zev Ginzberg (rav of the Chofetz Chaim Torah Center), Chaim Meir Hager (rav of Vizhnitz Bnei Brak in Boro Park), Eliezer Horowitz (rav of Agudas Yisroel Zichron Moshe), Mordechai Zev Jungreis (Nikolsburg Rebbe of Boro Park), Amram Klein (Ungvar Rav), Shmuel Yaakov Klein (of Torah U’Mesorah), Moshe Tuvia Lieff (rav of Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin), Dovid Schustal (rosh yeshiva at Beth Medrash Govoha), Yosef Ungar (son of the Bobov-45 Rebbe and rav of Apirion Shel Shlome), and others.
Government officials in attendance included Members of Congress Yvette Clarke and Jerry Nadler; NY State Senator Simcha Felder; NYS Assembly Members Joseph Borelli and David Weprin; NYC Councilmen Chaim Deutsch (the son of a Holocaust survivor), Mathieu Eugene, David Greenfield, Brad Lander, and Jumaane Williams; Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan; Deputy Chief of Police Steven M. Powers, CO for Brooklyn Borough South; and Community Board 12 chairman Yidel Perlstein and district manager Barry Spitzer.
As Mr. Kleinman said in his speech, this event was only the beginning. (More Mexican kids on the way). Those who witnessed this groundbreaking are surely awaiting the next phase, when KFHEC iy’H opens its doors next year.
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Hey Gringo UOJ,
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We Love You Elly Kleinman!
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Taking care of elderly people, those with disabilities, and mentally ill people is very difficult and often thankless. The pay is poor and the work is hard. Today in the New York Times we find out that the New York State Health Department is recommending expanded licensing for one of the wonderful, self-sacrificing, caring companies that does this hard and thankless work: Americare. Yes, this fabulous organization is stepping up to do what the rest of us don’t want to. The CEO, President, and sole shareholder of Americare, Elly Kleinman, must be a really nice guy.
Here’s how awesome this company and it’s CEO are:
1. In 2005 the New York Medicaid Fraud Control Unit found that Americare had improperly billed medicaid for excessive hours, hours that were not necessary, and hours that are supposed to be provided free of charge. Americare paid medicaid $7 million (4% of it’s revenue that year).
2. 2012, NY State medicaid directed Americare to pay back overcharges to medicaid.
3. The US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York intervened in a whistleblower case in which a former employee alleged that Americare schemed to defraud medicare and medicaid by obtaining and supplying hundreds of patients through referrals in exchange for kickbacks, and using fraudulent alteration of medical records to justify unnecessary home health services.
4. Americare, among other companies, forced mentally ill men to undergo unnecessary prostate surgery. It paid $1.2 million to the victims.
5. Americare has been illegally terminating or reducing services to customers without warning.
6. In a federal suit filed in October, Mendel Coen, another former employee, accused the company’s chief operating officer, Faivish Pewzner, of forcing him to go along while Mr. Pewzner, known as a pillar of his Orthodox Jewish community, secretly “binged on gambling, illegal drugs and illicit sex” during regular trips to Atlantic City at company expense.
7. As attorney general, Andrew Cuomo fined Americare $8 million in 2008 for falsely claiming home health aides had been trained to care for Medicaid patients.
8. Kleinman himself has been accused of sexual harassment.
So why is NY State Health Department recommending expanding this fraudulent company’s licensing? Well, Elly Kleinman is worth about $500 million dollars. He has close ties to the state’s top Jewish lobbyist organization, Agudas Yisroel. He gave about $32,000 dollars to political causes last year. So there’s that.
Another problem is the promise of all that state money. In 2011 Cuomo did a redesign of state Medicaid. It shifted tens of thousands of disabled people and frail seniors, and billions of public dollars, from fee-for-service systems to privately managed long-term care plans. The plans receive a fixed monthly sum for each enrollee — $3,800- regardless of what is actually spent. Americare had developed relationships with six managed care plans. Of course it has! All that lovely money, which Elly gets to keep if he doesn’t spend any of it on clients! NYS Health Department likes that Americare already has relationships in place. It also likes that Americare is financially viable (sure is!), has a new electronic medical records system (Oooh!) and has plans to reduce the use of home health services. I’m sure it will.
Can we all just say we’ll boycott Americare? For the people that Americare “serves” there’s often no choice. So much for government protection of it’s most vulnerable citizens.
Mr. and Mrs. Elly Kleinman Yeshiva Darchei Torah Honorees
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ReplyDeleteL'man Kavod Shomayim.org said...
Cheating husband is Yossi Kleinman-was living in Bayswater. He was a
"rebbe" in some kiruv school. He lost his job once someone informed
the school of his doings.
The girl he was cheating with was also working in the same school. Supposedly they both called in sick on the same days and spent time together.
His father is a bigshot At The Agudah and with one of the kiruv organizations dunno which one-lives on Bedford Ave in
Flatbush-owns "The Americare companies"http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/archives5761/behar/adinner.htm
The lady he was cheating with her name is Effy Saftlas nee Kariti from Staten Island.
9:19 PM, July 16, 2008
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1010474/americare-letters-and-complaints.pdf
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