The president of the KOVAL Distillery in Chicago, who also serves as the president of the World Jewish Congress' elite flagship program, the WJC-Jewish Diplomatic Corps, will be providing hand sanitizer in bulk free of charge to the medical community, retirement homes, police authorities, and more, amid the dearth of available supplies during this coronavirus pandemic.
“We’ve turned our business upside down,” Birnecker Hart told the Chicago Tribune recently. “For us this is a kind of war effort. We’re luckily in a position to have a distillery that can manufacture something really needed for those fighting on the front line.”
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