The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty paid a combined $750,000 to two separate CEOs in 2016 while its revenue dropped by 30% in just one year, according to tax filings obtained by the Forward. The new filings, provided by the Met Council on Thursday night, shed further light on the crisis roiling the group, which…
More than a year after the arrest of its executive director, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is struggling to regain its footing. Still reeling from the guilty plea of its former CEO and executive director, William Rapfogel, on charges that he stole from the organization, and similar guilty pleas from two other former top…
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is considering hiring Rabbi Moshe Wiener, head of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, to replace departing CEO David Frankel, the Forward has learned. Frankel’s surprise departure, which the Forward first reported August 20, comes just a year after the former Wall Street executive replaced Met Council…
The scandal-damaged Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is losing yet another CEO. David Frankel, hired to lead the organization in August 2013 following the arrest of predecessor William Rapfogel, will leave the Met Council before the end of the year, the Forward has learned. The former commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance,…
Less than a week after firing its longtime head William Rapfogel amid a criminal probe, The Metropolitan Council announced today that David M. Frankel will take over the post as Executive Director and CEO. Frankel will leave his post as Commissioner of the Department of Finance for the city of New York, a title he…
“Hope Springs,” opening nationally August 8, is centered on a long-married couple whose relationship has gone stale. Kay Soames, played by Meryl Streep, is frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship with her husband Arnold, played by Tommy Lee Jones. Arnold refuses to acknowledge that anything is wrong and resists her efforts to…
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