Tens of thousands of supporters of Israel crowded New York’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday as part of the annual parade celebrating the birth of the Jewish state in 1948.
This year’s parade also commemorated the centenary of the city of Tel Aviv. One contigent wore I (heart) Tel Aviv T-shirts, and another group rolled a giant birthday cake up the avenue.
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai was an honorary grand marshall and donned a pair of “100” glasses in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the largest city in Israel.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. David Paterson led off the parade, followed by floats blasting Israeli pop music and teenagers from yeshivas and Jewish day schools.
“Israel has given this city a distinct way of life, flavor, and culture that makes this the greatest city in the world,” Gov. Paterson said.
The Salute To Israel parade began in 1964, when thousands of Jews gathered to walk down Riverside Drive together in a show of support for Israel.
To #7 NOT true!!!!
Shliach associated with Merkos.
hey cool! I wish i was there.
kol hakavod, I was passing by and everyone was impressed in the hot sun, what these bochurim were doing, with their black hats and jackets, doing the rebbes work!! kiddush chabad!! thank youIm happy to say I am connected to such an an amazing group..
good job! but i think you should be in seder!
look how many people put on tefillin
im proud
Just to fill you in… we had full permission from hanhola to go and do mivtzoim..the rebbe always said that hanhola has the final say on what the bochurim should and shouldn’t do. This has nothing to do with what the rebbe answered that bochur with regards to do mivtzoim during seder, it seems to me that you are trying to concoct and misinterperet answers that the rebbe gave to others to fit your own agenda (much like what the tzfatim have done all these years!!) which is i could only imagine is to sit at home and tell off… Read more »
I was at the parade doing mivtzoim..we got 350 tefillin gave out over 100 neshek and made a massive kiddush shem lubavitch!!!
The official policy all the years before Gimmel tammuz set out by Rabbi Hodakov, the Rebbe’s secretary and head of Merkos, to whom the Rebbe referred everyone when such questions arose, was that Lubavitch should not be seen at the parade doing Mivtzoim in order that nobody identifies Chabad with the parade. Rabbi Hodakov was emphatically clear on that. He only allowed going on mivtzoim near the train station several blocks away. And that’s the way it was always done. Today people put in their own concoctions and interpretations into the Rebbe’s words and end up doing whatever they want.… Read more »
My point is NOT THE MIVTZOIM my point is the article should have been writen with more caution as the world see’s what we write here and think that chabad agrees C”V with them.
the rebbe was pro israel ….. learn abit
and mazal tov
why you showing pictures of neturei karta also?
who said that by doing mivtzoim and adding in to light we are supporting the STATE OF ISRAEL the Rebbe always said that we have to increase in light and in mitzvos and when so many jews gather in one place it is an opportune time to try to get as many yidden as possible to put on tefillin and take upon themselves neshe”k etc…. so number one get a life and get a job and stop being so synical!!!
we are chabad and we dont consider this a resone for celabration. did we forget that chabad is not pro “the state os israel” we are PRO the JEWS living there etc… V’DAL
p.s. nice pictures