New York Governor Kathy Hochul has intervened to halt plans that threatened the historic Kingsbrook Shul, officially known as Congregation Chaim Albert, located within the former Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center campus in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Governor Hochul released a statement saying the shul has been “around since the early 1900s and is a testament to the strength and resilience of the Jewish community,” adding that she was “proud to have led the effort to save the historic Kingsbrook Shul from its demolition.”
The development came days after a widely covered Chanukah menorah lighting on the fourth night of Chanukah, where hundreds gathered at the corner of Rutland Road and East 49th Street. The menorah was lit by a bochur who had been attacked in an antisemitic assault on the New York City subway while returning from Chanukah mivtzoim just two nights earlier…