UAlbany students join
Tu Bishvat Jewish New Year for Trees
at the New York State Capitol Assembly Chamber
1/22/2008
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| Rabbi Israel Rubin (Rabbi Mendel's father) and Capital Chabad has an annual Tu Bishvat (Jewish New Year for Trees) Celebration at the NYS Capitol for many years now. This year Tu Bishvat fell during Winter Break, but two UAlbany students, Craig Messer (President of ZFA) and Justin Hirsch (former L'chaim President), active at Shabbos House and in the leadership of the UAlbany campus community, went down to join the festivities just outside the NYS Assembly Chamber. | |
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| Pictured above with the "human-tree" as the verse says "Man is a Tree of the Field" are Maimonides High / Albany Mesivta and University at Albany students. L-R: Aharon Simon, Craig Messer, The Tree, Justin Hirsch and Motti Rubin (Rabbi Mendel's youngest brother). | |
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| Rabbi Rubin and Speaker Silver posing with the tree, during the celebration, as more than 100 legislators and aides ate fruit, and said L'chaim on New York State Grape Juice. Both Speaker Silver and Rabbi Rubin spoke about the significance of growth. | Rabbi Rubin opened the Budget session with an invocation. Here you'll find (not when the assembly was actually in session) Rabbi Israel Rubin with Craig and Justin sitting around on the Assembly Speakers seat. |
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| Mike Nissan, another UAlbany student, at the NYS Capitol for his Assembly Internship is pictured here on the far left, along with Rabbis Moshe Bomzer, Nachman Simon and Israel Rubin and the boys from Maimonides High School / Albany Mesivta - and of course, the human tree! | |
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