New York - Assembly Speaker Silver To Dov Hikind: Whatever You Need To Fight Abuse, I Will Help

Sources tell us Influential New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, himself an Orthodox Jew, met this past Friday with outspoken Assemblyman and community activist Dov Hikind to discuss the severity of the ongoing problem of child abuse and molestation in the Orthodox Jewish community. Speaker Silver was reportedly moved by the account put forward by Assemblyman Hikind, pledging that “whatever resource you need, I am opening [it] up to you.”