Teenager Tells of NY Experience

Hi there. My name is Jacob and I would like to tell you what I did this past Memorial day weekend. On Sunday, I joined 75 fellow high school students for a fun filled day in New York City with the most amazing Rabbis I’ve ever met. The trip was arranged by CTeen- the Chabad network of teens worldwide- as part of their annual “feeling Jewish in the city”.

We started the day at Chabad of Midtown where we put on Tefillin and had a great breakfast. After that we headed to the Marriot Hotel in Times Square to snap some pictures from “The View” which had the greatest panoramic viewpoints in the city. Then we went to the South Street Sea Port for an exhilarating tour of the city aboard the wildest cruise in Manhattan on a speedboat called “The Shark”.

Just as were getting really hungry, one of the Rabbi’s announced that we were going to the Empire State Building to have lunch at Rosa’s Pizza! we had amazing authentic New York style pizza. I never knew kosher pizza tastes so good. Next stop was China town where we had a scavenger hunt that was set up by the Rabbis and based on the Ten Commandments. We also went bargain hunting up and down Canal street, where we would show off who got the coolest stuff later on in the evening.

I would say that one of the highlights of the day was over a Chinese buffet dinner where we got to meet professional boxing champ Yuri Forman who was really inspirational when he spoke to us about our connection to our Jewish heritage. The evening was wrapped up with awesome hypnosis show by “The great Ronnie Baras”.

As the night was coming to a close, my new friend Scott who came in all the way from California, blurted out “we can’t wait for next year”, which triggered everyone in the room to start clapping and yelling. I’d like to thank all the cool Rabbi’s who came along and gave us such a great time.

See you next year later,
Jacob.

CTeeN would like to thank all the Shluchim who were affiliated: Rabbi David Lazar and Rabbi Dovid Leib Perelstein – Montreal; Rabbi Shuie Eliezrie and Rabbi Levi Blesovsky – Yorba Linda CA; Rabbi Mendy Kivman – Boston MA
Rabbi Mendy Lewis – Old Tappan NJ; Rabbi Avremel Blesofsky – Fanwood NJ; Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum – Gaithersburg MD; Rabbi Shmaya Krinsky – Hillsborough NJ; Rabbi Winner- Brighten beach NY.

CTeeN would also like to thank: Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky. And the CTeeN staff: Rabbi Beryl Frankel, Mendy Alevsky, Mendy Shanowitz, Mendel Perlstein. CTeeN is a devision of Merkos Leinyonei Chinuch.