The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles' Hineni Society invites you and your adult children to an evening featuring U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres, who will discuss his advocacy and support of Israel and the Jewish people.
Who: The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles
What: Hineni Society Dinner
When: Monday, February 26th • 6:00 PM
Where: Four Seasons Hotel, 300 South Doheny Drive, Los Angeles 90048
Dietary laws observed. Business attire.
Registration is now closed. If you would like to register please contact Lauren Shorten at LShorten@JewishLA.org or (323) 761-8306.
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres is a fighter from the Bronx who has spent his entire life working for the community he calls home. Like many people in the Bronx, poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him, and he governs from a place of lived experience.
Ritchie’s mother single-handedly raised him, his twin brother, and his sister in a public-housing project. She paid the bills, working minimum-wage jobs. While Ritchie grew up with mold, lead, leaks, and no reliable heat or hot water in the winter, he watched the government spend over $100 million dollars to build a golf course across the street. In 2013, at the age of 25, Ritchie became New York City’s youngest elected official and the first openly L.G.B.T.Q. Latino-Black Member of Congress ever elected to office in the Bronx.
During his seven-year tenure on the City Council, he tenaciously tackled problems big and small for the Bronx and New York City. He passed over forty pieces of legislation, including to protect the City’s affordable housing stock and tackle the city’s opioid epidemic. As the Chairman overseeing the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), he held the first committee hearing in public housing, which led to a $3 billion-dollar FEMA investment, the largest in NYC history. As Chair of the Oversight & Investigations Committee, Ritchie has led investigations into the heating outages and lead poisoning at NYCHA, the Taxi Medallion scandal, the City’s controversial Third-Party Transfer program, and Kushner Companies.
Ritchie currently lives in the Bronx and represents NY-15 in Congress. He is a member of the Committee on Financial Services and the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
Torres has been a longstanding and outspoken ally of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Since October 7th, he has risen to be one of the strongest voices in Congress in support of Israel’s right to defend itself.
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