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Jessica Tisch affixes a mezuzah to her NYPD office on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

JL;DR SUMMARY New York City's Jewish Police Commissioner, Jessica Tisch, has ceremoniously placed a mezuzah on her office door at One Police Plaza during International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityNew York CityJewish LeadershipNypdHolocaust Remembrance DayMezuzahPublic SafetyZohran MamdaniJessica Tisch

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New York City, New York, United States
"Jessica Tisch, New York Citys Jewish police commissioner, on Tuesday affixed a mezuzah to the front doorframe of her office at One Police Plaza, a NYPD spokesperson told the Forward."
Ukraine
"The family name was originally Tichinsky when her ancestors immigrated to the United States from Ukraine in 1904, and it was later shortened as a nickname when her great-grandfather Avraham was cheered as a captain of the City College of New Yorks basketball team."
Israel
"Tisch said on Tuesday that placing the mezuzah, which was purchased in Israel and given to her by her mother Merryl, at her office is a reminder that in this city, every community belongs, and every identity deserves to be lived openly and without fear."

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