Rabbi Yosef and Shiffy Landa present an ARK (Acts of Routine Kindness) charity box to Missouri Gov. Mike Parson in honor of the 120th anniversary of the birth of the Rebbe.
Bipartisan Event in America’s Heartland Marks 120th Anniversary of Rebbe’s Birth
Outside the House chambers, Davis—one of two Jewish members of Missouri’s House of Representatives—got to talking with Rabbi Yitzchok Itkin, who together with his wife Chanale, directs Chabad on the Plaza in Davis’s hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. A few minutes of conversation later, Itkin discovered that Davis—whose mother fled antisemitism in Soviet Russia in 1989 — had never put on tefillin.
