HUNDREDS OF ADVOCATES AND SURVIVORS OF ABUSE JOIN TOGETHER FOR THE PRE- PASSOVER MODEL SEDER IN A STRONG MESSAGE OF UNITY. THE NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY HAILS THE SEDER AS A HISTORIC DAY FOR SURVIVORS

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_

                                                                       

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 AND LOVE IN A HISTORIC   UNTY SEDER.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 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 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 

CHAIM KISS AT HIS BEST

                                                     

                                                                                      
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 SAID,MARK MEYER APPEL PRESIDENT OF THE VOICE OF JUSTICE         FOR INFORMATION    CALL    1  800  621  8551