Three more Lubavitcher rabbis were nominated for the Jewish Community Hero of the Year, a competition by the United Jewish Communities (UJC).
As COLlive first reported, Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff of Chabad Texas, was chosen by the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston for his tireless work helping victims affected by hurricane Ike.
Shortly after our post, his number jumped and other websites and blogs picked up the story.
And now we found another three Lubavitchers who were nominated:
Rabbi Mendel and Raizy Rubin, Shluchim to Albany, NY, were nominated for “not only ensuring that Jews on campus, community members, and visitors in the Albany area can pray, eat, and celebrate, but for the thousands of people who have passed through its doors, they truly make Shabbos House a home away from home.”
Rabbi Benzion Kravitz of Los Angeles, founder of Jews for Judaism International, was nominated for his work helping thousands of Jews return to Judaism from the clutches of cults and deceptive missionaries.
Rabbi Benny Zippel, Shliach to Salt Lake City, Utah, was nominated for his great amount of diligence and patience dealing with youth dealing with substance abuse and related addiction issues.
Vote for Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff Here.
Vote for Rabbi Mendel and Raizy Rubin here
Vote for Rabbi Benzion Kravitz Here
Vote for Rabbi Benny Zippel here.
If the point of this exercise is to win $25,000 for a deserving Chabad shaliach, why not put aside one dime How about every time you vote, put aside a dime and then give it to your favorite shaliach or to some other tzedaka? Had we been doing this, we would have already raised over $3000 just from the 4 Chabadniks in the top 10. I have a feeling this is a big waste of time. How likely is it that UJC judges will choose a Chabadnik given that we rarely if ever participate in giving money to the UJC?… Read more »
let’s try to keep as many chabad people in the top 10, it can be a major Kiddush Lubavitch! you can vote for as many nominees as you like just once every 12 hours. check the leaderboard to see who is on top. every vote counts!
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it looks like someone needs attention
click on the link on this page for the person you want to vote for, then click the big blue button that says “vote for this hero”. That’s it. And you can do it again for as many other people as you want.
HOW DO I VOTE???
like the vots in isreal, if everyone agreed to vote for one of them then they have a chance. but if everyone votes for any one of them then non have a chance. but since most readers here were brought up in CH, and we love to vote, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, perhaps all of m will win
I once punched an arab.
He was #1 for a while and is now slipping….. VOTE, VOTE AND VOTE! (for all the lubabs!)
Unfortunately, the sone S. Y. , who was involved in the destruction of the Rubashkin family, is in the top ten. It is very important that we get him out of there fast! Vote for at least ten other promising candidates – all the Lubavitchers and any other frum activists. This way he gets pushed down and off. He is for all intensive purposes a moiser but the leftists love him and would like to see someone like that win. If he is in the top ten he could indeed win and we can’t let this happen.
also shliach Eli Backman, College Park, Maryland is one of the candidates
Why would anyone here post to vote for one shliach over another. In our eyes all shluchim are equal and we should be posting one equal vote for each of them. They are all doing the same Rebbe’s work.
My vote is with Kravitz. Has been doing so much good for so long.
I’m wondering if the nominees are asked before their names are put up on here…. would be kinda funny to look through the site, and suddenly find that you were nominated 🙂
anyway, i found another shliach on there – Rabbi Backman from MD, as well as Devorah Benjamin, like someone commented above.
If you look through some of the descriptions though, these people, shluchim and non-shluchim alike, are all doing great things, and they’re all Jewish, so it’s a win-win competition. Nice of the UJC to do this
can someone add rabbi and mrs speilman to the list they do a great service to the community by being the food pantry open late and difficult times like a week before peasach and make you feel like a somebody with dignaty and compassion!
thanks
she is the greatest tzadekes in our generation!
you can vote for multiple candidates, and you can vote once per day through October 8th…
The award will be decided by a panel as is written on the about page of the website. The people who they will be selecting the awardee from will be from the top ten voted people, being voted in first place does not guarantee a sure award. If you vote for all of the fine people, and they all get voted into the top ten, the winner has to be picked anyhow by a panel of judges, nothing to do with the competition or how many votes they. I REPEAT, AS LONG AS YOUR NOMINEE WAS VOTED INTO THE TOP… Read more »
it is also possible to vote for Devora Banjamin who does amazing work for CH and beyond.
http://www.jewishcommunityheroes.org/nominees/profile/devora-benjamin/
Devorah Benjamin is also one of the nominees- vote for her! Vote for everyone!
i think you can vote for multiple candidates
Everybody, Please vote for Rabbi Benny Zippel!!!!
You can vote for all of them..not just one. they let you vote for as many nominees as you want, so all the shluchim can end up on top even if only one wins. – they have something for the 4 runner ups as well. Also you can vote every 12 hours. So VOTE FOR ALL THE SHLUCHIM!
go rabbi zippel for all the good work you do i hope you win
it’s about time that these shluchim in “small” communities deserve proper recognition for their amazing work!!!
Chaim ROCKS!!!
it looks like r lazaroff is number 2 . If we all vote for one candidate then he is sure to win. Instead of spreading out the votes and no lubavitcher will win.
just an idea.
Rabbi Mendel and Raizy Rubin are amazing people who do amazing work that makes the Rebbe and HaShem proud! Yasher Koach!
ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, they are.
I guess it’s like “Kin’as sofrim” – for a good cause,
competition is good..
Aren’t Rabbis Rubin and Lazaroff Brothers in law?
Can they both win?
Wish them all luck