Daily Archives: July 19, 2005

Today’s Rally in Pictures

A massive crowd gathered on Manhattans Broadway between 40Th and 41St Street, at 12 o’clock in the afternoon the NYPD shut down 2 lanes of this very busy street for this gathering, which in its own was a very big statement. Then later on as more and more people gathered the police ended up shutting down even more lanes.

An estimate of more then 2000 people gathered for the rally on this hot Tuesday, Camps Gan Menchem, Camp F.R.E.E. and LeMaan Achai attended on the boy’s side and Bais Rivka day camp and Bais Chaya Mushka day camp attended on the girls side. Cold water and ices were distributed to the campers throughout the rally.

The demonstration was timed to coincide with similar protests against Israel’s planned withdrawal from Gaza in Paris, Melbourne, London and Amsterdam, according to organizers.

At the rally in Midtown, the stage was shared by young kids saying the twelve Pesukim, singer Avraham Fried belting out lines like “Gush Katif – You are not alone!” and New York State Assemblyman, Dov Hikind, who reminded the crowd, “Hashem is watching us.”

The rally was organized and arranged by Tzivos Hashem.

Click the “Extended Article” link to see all the rest of the pictures. UPDATE: 86 Pictures are now online.

2,000 pack Times Sq. for Gaza rally

A couple thousand people jammed a busy midtown Manhattan street Tuesday afternoon for a prayer, song and protest rally against Israel’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

Organized largely by the Lubavitch youth organization Tzivos Hashem, the rally brought hundreds of Orthodox children from New York-area summer camps to the demonstration, some of them leading the crowd in prayer and declarations of solidarity with the settlers of Gush Katif.

“The land belongs to every Jew who ever lived, and no one has the right to give away even one inch, especially if it puts into danger the lives of other Jews,” one young boy declared from the podium.

Rally For Israel

Today in Times Square @ 12:00PM to 2:00PM there will be a rally/concert for the situation in Israel.

Avrohom Fried and Mordechai Ben David will be singing at the gathering.

[Times Square is located on Broadway btw. 41st and 42nd St.]. For more information please call (718) 467-6630

This even is arranged by Tzivos Hashem and Camp Gan Israel.

Update: For those of you that cant make it, you can still watch the event live By Clicking Here

Speech Reflects Chabad Split

A prominent Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi delivered a speech this week in Brooklyn lambasting his movement’s leadership for not aggressively fighting Israel’s plan to dismantle settlements in Gaza and the northern West Bank.

“When I read that the Lubavitch took a position that we’re not to get involved, it went against everything I know,” said Rabbi Avraham Hecht, 83, at an anti-disengagement event held Sunday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum, located across the street from Chabad’s worldwide headquarters in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights area. “How stupid can these people be? This is deportation, not disengagement. Even the Nazis didn’t do it this way.”

Hecht, who is no stranger to controversy, spoke on the 11th anniversary of the death of the movement’s late rebbe or grand rabbi, Menachem M. Schneerson.

Reoccurring Tragedies

Fridays tragic accident is also the day that marked another major tragedy, 2 summers ago on an extension of this very highway [rt. 17b] the Sheinfeld and Raksin families suffered a major loss, grand parents and mother were killed when a truck collided with their car.

Ches Tamuz is their Yortziet.