HUNDREDS OF ADVOCATES AND SURVIVORS OF ABUSE JOIN TOGETHER FOR THE PRE- PASSOVER MODEL SEDER IN A STRONG MESSAGE OF UNITY. IN ATTENDANCE WAS THE NOVIMINSKER REBBITZEN WIFE OF THE ROSH OF MOETZES GEDOLOA HATORAH

Sunday, April 1, 2012

HUNDREDS OF ADVOCATES AND SURVIVORS OF ABUSE JOIN TOGETHER FOR THE PRE- PASSOVER MODEL SEDER IN A STRONG MESSAGE OF UNITY.  IN ATTENDANCE WAS THE NOVIMINSKER REBBITZEN WIFE OF THE ROSH OF MOETZES GEDOLOA HATORAH

MARK MEYER APPEL,RABBI YOSEF BLAU,RABBI GERSHON TANNENBAUM

PROCLAMATION BY THE NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY PROCLAIMING PASSOVER 2O12 "FREEDOM SEDER DAY FOR SURVIVORS OF ABUSE_

                                                                        

.THE SEDER WAS PREEMPTED BY A PRAYER SERVICE IN THE HISTORIC BNEI ISRAEAL OF LINDEN HEIGHTS SHUL RABBI GERSHON TANNENBAUM WHO HOSTED THIS EVENT WITH OPEN HANDS AND WITH  COMMITMENT TO SUPPORT AND PROVIDE THE MUCH NEEDED SUPPORT THAT HAS EMPOWERED THEM TO OVERCOME THEIR SUFFERING WITH HUNDREDS OF SURVIVORS OF ABUSE ATTENDED A EMOTIONAL SEDER WHICH WAS HELD THIS  PRE -PASSOVER IN BROOKLYN WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE COMMUNITY WHO JOINED IN ALONG WITH THE SURVIVORS IN GIVING STRENGTH A NEW RENEWAL.

THE BALLROOM WAS PACKED WITH .ADVOCATES,SURVIVORS AND A CROSS SECTION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE TRI STATE AREA
THE TENSION AND ENERGY IN THE ROOM WAS EVIDENT AS RABBI YOSEPH BLAU MASHIGACH RUCHNI YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ADDRESSED THE EVENT AND THE GREAT SINGER CHAIM KISS BEGAN THE SEDER WITH THE SINGING OF LEMAN ACHI VEREA.








 TEARS OF JOY WAS FLOWING AS ALL THE ATTENDEES HELD HANDS AND DECLARED THAT FREEDOM  FROM PAIN HAS ARRIVED. IN A DECLARATION OF HOPE ALL ATTENDEES PLEDGED THAT AS A UNITED COMMUNITY WE WILL DO MORE TO HELP ALL THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING TO ENGAGE IN A A NEW LIFE OF HAPPINESS SUCCESS AND FINALLY BE FREE.DOZENS OF VOLUNTEERS ACROSS THE COMMUNITY HELPED PREPARE AND ORGANIZE THESE SEDERS, IZZY APPEL, YANKI LIEDER,MINDY LOWY, RIVKI K, ZALMIN RIGEL, SAMMY PERL, NYC POLICE DEPT,  MAIMONDIES HOSPITAL HELPED ENSURE THE SUCESS OF THE PROGRAM

CHAIM KISS

RABBI BLAU,MARK WEISS

NOVIMINSKER REBBITZEN 

                                                                                      
A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE SPONSORS  THE VOICE OF JUSTICE , AND OUR CO-SPONSORS


METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY, MAIMONIDIES HOSPITAL.RABBINICAL ALLIANCE OF AMERICA,COALITION OF  JEWISH ADVOCATES  ,VOS IS NEIS
,TALKLININE COMMUNICATIONS,THE JEWISH PRESS

                                                     
AND THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL OF 


JEWISH POVERTY 
                                                                              
FOR SUPPLING ALL THE DELICIOUS FOOD AND FOOD SUPPLIED TO SURVIVORS FOR PESACH     THE VOICE OF JUSTICE WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND THESE SERVICES TO THIS UNDERSERVED  POULATION AND WILL BEGIN  A YEAR ROUND  SUPPORT NETWORK WITH A  WHOLE RANGE OF SERVICES IN THE COMMING MONTHS . WE LOOK FORWARD TO A NEW ERA WHEN  THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED WILL NEVER BE ABANDONED AND  BECOME PART OF THE EXTENDED JEWISH COMMUNITY