Maimonides Kicks Off 18th annual Celebration of Light
The holy presence of many priests from different parishes in the city kicked off the 18th annual Celebration of Light at Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) on November 14 in the board room on the fifth floor of the hospital.
Twenty nine representatives attended the program , each receiving a $1,000 donation to help pay for Christmas trees and decorations that will brighten the holiday season at churches around the borough.
“It started out with a modest little thing,” at Visitation Monastery in 1995, remarked Pamela Brier, president and CEO of MCC, and it has grown since then to 29 parishes. “It’s a happy example of how we’re practicing in life what we talked about,” she continued, saying that although the medical center is fundamentally Jewish, “it’s exciting,” to cross boundaries and help others in the community.