Four Chabad Centers of Brooklyn – Chabad of Brooklyn Heights, Chabad of Park Slope, Congregation B’Nei Avraham and Congregation B’Nei Jacob joined for a memorial for the Shluchim Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg HY”D.
Rabbi Aron Raskin of Chabad of Brooklyn Heights spoke about the Rebbe’s answer to terrorism, the more the Jewish nation suffers, the more we flourish.
Boro President Marty Markowitz addressed the crowd saying that this is a rare instance of anti-semitism taking place in India. He said the world should take a lesson from Brooklyn, where so many different people of all ethnicities live together in harmony.
Rabbi Shimon Hecht spoke and Chazzan Levi Kaplan sang “Keil Malei Rachamim.”
Rabbi Moshe Hecht spoke about his meeting with Rabbi Teitelbaum and Rabbi Kroman HY”D in China.
Each of the 200 attendees lit a memorial candle for the 187 victims of the Mumbai Massacre.
Kiddush Hashem, Hakhel, Hachlotois Toivois…that sounds like what The Rebbe wants.
Commentors #1 and 2 sound like they align themseves with the same source of “life” as sitra acharo…
It was an inspiring event and fitting tribute with a nice spirit of achdus between the local shuls (one participating Shul not mentioned in the article, but included in the program, was Kol Israel). It was also well covered in the local media. The above comments are silly, as there was quite a sizeable crowd (not all depicted in these photos) but filling the large shul by Rabbi Hecht, the senior shliach in Park Slope. It was nice that cards for hachlotos were distributed to be sent to the families in EY . I saw many in attendance filling them… Read more »
Your comments are quite appropriate for the spirit of unity felt throughout the world at this time by anash, the frum and not yet frum velt,, and even lehavdil umois hoilom.
make that 2000!
And this is 5 shuls combined!
all the hechts plus 5