I am a proud resident of Bellmore, where I live with my wife Gayle and our three daughters – Sophia, Violet, and Clara – who attend public school in Bellmore. I am the son of an immigrant. My father was born in a refugee camp in Tel Aviv in 1946. He and his family lived in a communal tent in that camp before moving into a cramped one-bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv.

I attended a military high school in Albany, New York, and later attended Johns Hopkins University where I met my wife Gayle.

While at Hopkins, one of my roommates was shot and killed by a gunman on campus. This experience ultimately led me to attend law school at Cornell. My heart was committed to public service, and I accepted a position as a prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office…