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Featured Story: JCCGCI’s Operation HOOD on CBS New York
OPERATION H.O.O.D. CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING IN CONEY ISLAND As hot dogs sizzled on the grill and children ducked through the crowd laughing, Operation H.O.O.D. Director Derick Latif Scott proudly welcomed the group assembled to celebrate the grand opening of their new Coney Island location. Operation H.O.O.D. (Helping Our Own Develop) was founded in 2015 as a project of the [...]
Featured Article: JCCGCI’s Operation HOOD in Brooklyn Paper
Operation H.O.O.D. Featured in Brooklyn Paper Article Operation H.O.O.D. (Helping Our Own Develop) is an Anti-Violence program utilizing the “Cure Violence” model and a project of Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, a community-based organization with a citywide scope. Derick Latif Scott, an accomplished and highly respected professional in the field of gun-violence prevention, serves as JCCGCI’s Program Director [...]
Call Volume Soars for JCCGCI’s Senior Citizen Transportation Program as it Celebrates 40 Years of Service to the Community
Call Volume Soars for JCCGCI’s Senior Citizen Transportation Program as it Celebrates 40 Years of Service to the Community Responding to a growing demand for its services from a population trying to return to some semblance of normalcy even as COVID stubbornly refuses to move on, the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island’s (JCCGCI) Senior Citizen Transportation Program, founded [...]
Holocaust Survivors Welcome German Consul General to Brooklyn Gathering
Brooklyn, NY – On Tuesday, June 7, hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Brooklyn welcomed Hon. David Gill, Germany’s Consul General in New York at a socialization event hosted by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island (JCCGCI), under funding provided by the German government and administered by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (“Claims Conference”). The event, a monthly gathering known [...]
