By COLlive reporter
The new Sholom Across America campaign, unveiled first in Crown Heights last week, is working to garner support for Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, imprisoned former manager of Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Iowa.
Singer Benny Friedman, a friend of the Rubashkin family, has joined the efforts, volunteering for the campaign started by Sholom Mordechai’s son Meir Simcha Rubashkin and his friends.
Volunteers have visited hundreds of Crown Heights homes, raising almost $12,000, bringing the Crown Heights total to more than $30,000 in small donations since Lag B’Omer.
The efforts to bring Rubashkin’s plight to to the public eye has caught the attention of many prominent politicians, including Reps. Anthony Weiner, Jerrold Nadler, Eliot Engel, Carolyn McCarthy, Edolphus Towns, Carolyn Maloney, Steve Israel and Yvette Clarke, who have lobbied for a review of his case.
Clarke said Orthodox Jewish constituents in her Brooklyn district raised concerns that “the punishment did not fit the crime here.”
A group of volunteers have taken a video camera along with them on their visits, and have been filming their experiences and talking to people on the street about the campaign, Sholom Rubashkin and Jewish unity.
The group plans to put together a video about the self sacrifice many have had for a fellow Jew in distress, who most of them have never met.
Sholom Across America aims to eventually visit 16 major Jewish communities across the United States and Canada.
Who is the guy taking in the 2nd video?
matzliach!
good for them that their collecting money for sholom!
from ur roommate!
keep it up!
cousins in austrailia want to be part of sholom across america to distribute dvd please contact [email protected]
Great work Reb Benny!
Thanks so much for helping Sholom HaTzaddik.
Thank you Mrs Simpson of President St for offering/giving my son a much deserving drink ! He told me with delight “I even got a choice of O.J. or water”
go benny friedman !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in your zechus- and everyone else ivolved-shalom should be relased asap
its seriously amazing.. tells the whole story in a clear way!!
you rock the house!!!!!
Yasher Koiach, men ken zich fun em lernen! Poshut Kipshutoi a guter mentch.
a frinte
dovid margolin great job in helping your an example for all the yungeleit
thats amazing
https://sholomacrossamerica.com/donate/
click the button on the right:
http://sholomacrossamerica.com/
Good going Benny!! It’s great to see many people involved.
not only a great singer but also the kindest of men
No one came to my house. Can you send information on where to send a check and who to make it out to? Thanks.
to donate go to sholomacrossamerica.com
KEEP IT UP OTEG!!!!! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!!!
we can count on you!
Donate now $36 or more….thanks! Tizke L’Mitzvos!
https://sholomacrossamerica.com/donate/
What about the basements? I live in a basement and I wanna give but no one is knocking at my door….
Thumbs up to all the volunteers! May their hard work pay off and Sholom Mordechai should be released IMMEDIATELY!
May this be the final show of acdus that brings the Geulah Shleima NOW!!!
Kol hakovod to Benny and all the chevra that fight our battle
May it bring to the Yeshua that we are all waiting for.