What city’s Jewish mayor recently welcomed the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and directors of 13 federal agencies to meet with area clergy to discuss cooperative efforts to meet the needs of families who are “falling through the cracks” and suffering as a result? Hint: it was not Madison’s mayor.
“I need the ministers to come outside the door of the church where there is warmth and bring that warmth out into the streets,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, according to the Chicago Tribune. “I cannot achieve the goal without the partnership of people of faith.”