Oorah-thon 2010 - Phone Interview With Rabbi Wallerstein

a very very guest and dear friend ra Z are you there how are you sh RAB Wallin you know it's always a pleasure to speak with you uh I am an avid fan of all the work that you do and uh if for those that don't know Rabbi Wallin is a major Pioneer of kirv in his own right uh orava has changed the way things work in Flatbush and in Brooklyn and uh Rabbi uh Wallin has also does amazing work up in the cat skulls I Marvel at what you accomplish RAB wtin hasem should give you k you forever white I am one of your aage supporters and and I listen to your Sher and some of my shum are based on your Sher well thank you very much RAB Rabbi Wallin is based at the Yeshiva of Crown Heights in mil Basin and uh oh that is one of the great feeder yeshivas of UR am I correct absolutely absolutely well you have you have a Hands-On and uh you know you have a Hands-On relationship with Ura so you know we're trying to raise money for Ura what could you tell our thousands of listeners about the work that Ura does okay so I've been Rian Planet shiv new Basin which is on e63rd Street in Avenue U the canasi area uh no Basin area for the last 32 years and um Ur has helped us in two ways one that we have many you know most of our most of the people in our Yesa are kids that are coming from non totally non-religious homes and um I guess in each home it's a battle of whether they should go to Yesa or they should go to public school and part of that battle is tuition and uh a lot of them are Israelis who come from Israel and in Israel the public schools there is no to and they hear the public school there's no tuition so the first time they hear they walk into yiva and find out that you have to pay um many of them you know lose their interest Ura has helped many of the our children that are in the Yeshiva um with their tuition and and really if Ur would not have stepped in I would say a lot of these children girls and boys um from Early Childhood through 8th grade wouldn't be in Yeshiva today so um every dollar you know the the the r with saying before um that you know uh every dollar you know helps Ura but um even the people who don't win tonight at 3:00 when they you know when they call out the prizes everyone should know that you definitely have won a prize that's for sure probably much not probably for sure a much greater prize than any material prize that could be won tonight is the prize of being a partner With Ur and in turn being a partner um with all these kids and if you change one of these kids' lives and end up Maring Jewish people and having Jewish kids you just they'll be just sending you fedexes you know for your investment so Rob we have a lot of listeners out there you know because we're broadcasting on WABC and in Toronto and in Chicago and Cleveland and Miami there are people out there believe it or not that are hearing the name Ura for the first time you know Ur they asking me for my money do I know if I could trust this organization if they have integrity I mean you've been dealing with Rabbi minz for a long while what could you tell the people about the Integrity of this organization um the Integrity is on the highest level they check out um they don't just throw money around every family that we request you know help they they they check into them and to make sure that the money is really needed um I have to say that um campwise many of our children are we sent to their girl Zone and their boy Zone and uh I don't have to tell anyone out there even in Toronto wherever you are what it means the difference between a child being in the city and a child being in Camp and I had this s the honor of being a girl zone of speaking in girl Zone uh this year was the first time I was there I was absolutely astonished um first of all at the camp it is absolutely gorgeous but I have to say that I've been in camps you know all my life and there's always kids laying around not in a good mood you know with with uh their faces down on the ground playing games you know their their their handheld games and not really interested in Camp wherever I walked in Girl Z everybody was dancing and hopping and smiling and happy but I I I had I gave a sheare other people were giving Shar they were all smiling they were playing ball there were a bunch of kids going on a trip so um I I I didn't see boyone but I know some of the people that were work there and it's just it it seems to be they know what they're doing because all the kids I really walked through the whole Camp I didn't see one kids sitting and playing you know one of these handheld electronic games everybody was the Sy you know before before we continue Rob Wallin just your voice your you know you have such a charismatic voice the lines are all full so we have to give our listeners extra lines so there's the local number 15742 there's also an extra line that was just added and that's write this down put it in your Palm Pilot 98135 that's 73271 98135 and of course .org that's the way to go you know you never get a busy signal if you go on .org Rabbi wallerstein you know you're you're barash a person of passion and I think that you've connected with the pass passion associated with Girl Z I know that Rabbi mince was thrilled that you went up to the camp and spoke there and uh we look forward to your involvement in Ura in the in the future uh and and everybody here uh kri yasi myself and of course ra Min wants to wish you in all your endeavors you should have the kak and the uh and the continued uh uh vitality and dynamism to continue your work for CLA Israel thank you very much you sure all have a lot of hota and uh just uh keep tell everyone they should just know that even if they don't win a prize at 3 o00 they won a very huge prize by helping Ur helping kro and bring thank you and have a good