by Mendy Rimler, lubavitch.com
More than 200 flights have been canceled at O’Hare Airport in Chicago after a massive snowstorm barreled into the Mideast Sunday, leaving 1,700 travelers stranded in the airport.
Chabad Rabbi Yosef Moscowitz jumped into action Monday to provide kosher meals for Jewish travelers at the airport who did not have kosher food to wait out the cancellations and delays.
“Many travelers are frustrated with the slow recovery and are too anxious to get home, let alone think about how they will get a kosher meal,” said Rabbi Moscowitz. “These travelers feel like they are stuck at the end of the world and many of them hadn’t eaten a normal meal in days, so the kosher food was a welcome relief.”
Meyer Emanuel, head of catering services at Shallots Bistro arranged packaged meals for Chabad to deliver to stranded travelers at O’Hare. When he first called the restaurant to order the food, Moscowitz said he was told that the food will be ready in just 35 minutes, and “they were glad to provide the meals for free.”
Yeshiva students Yitzchok Glassner and Dovid Marasow distribute the meals to travelers at the airport where it may yet take days for the airlines to resume a normal schedule.
“People were pleasantly surprised to see two Chabad students walking around distributing kosher food packages,” said Glassner.
“We gave many travelers a few meals to last them through the delays.” Though prepared for kosher travelers who cannot buy food in the airport concessions, the rabbinical students gave the meals out “to anyone who needed food while waiting for a flight back home.”
the 2 mesivta shluchim,glassner and marozov are from montreal. go canadiens go. tizku lemitzvos
All three truly right 😉
Go Bucktown!
Yosef &Sara took me in for an extended stay in Chicago, and I never thanked them properly, perhaps now is my chance
you are amazing! you too sarale
DON’T have your wife prepare the food she has enough on her head. Good job Yosef!
Next time Yosef Shmuel have your amazing wife prepare the meals. She’s a great cook!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The students learn at the Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago at 2756 W morse Ave Chicago IL 60645
Did anyone notice this caterer provided the meals for free? Not just a few meals, but a few meals per person! Seems Emanuel is the one to do the right thing at the right time.
go Rabbi Moscowitz. Yosef you always manage to do the right thing at the right time.
Chicago is lucky to have you here.
and rebbi perlstein
As my father was stuck at O’hare, and the Mesivta shluchim where a huge help.
Thank you Rabbi’s Meir Hecht, Yosef Moscowitz, Meir Emanuel the Mesivta Shluchim and all that did what was needed to be done!
Pretty good writer anyone know who he is?
why don’t they give some credit to the Yeshivah those bochurim or “Rabbinical Students” learn.
it’s not like their out of a job?!!
why hide the idenity
so beutifal
“two chabad students”
Were the Yeshivah Bochurim from Skokie, Telshe or perhaps Brisk. Is there a reason that you hide their idenity.
so very special0what a kiddush Ha Shem!!