This puts the Jewish community on the map as it relates to a very large and spread-out city, ... There have been programs spread around the city, but there has been no central address until now.

It's not a dead community at all.

We are encouraged that the legal system is working to protect the community.

I look forward to serving the community and getting out there and practicing community policing.

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

We have provided the young people with the tools to return to Jewish life, ... To see the young people singing at Shabbat and to see the elderly who have very little and not have to choose between food and medicine — to know we played a meaningful role was very moving.