Kiruv in Boro Park

so stop look and listen if you're silent you're not missing the message that I'm giving to you hi my name is Jacob Weinfeld my name is Liza halberstone from Boro Park before my name was nakshon my name was Gus I had my bar mitzvah at 26 in front of the hotel I was contacted by a friend Hanukkah that he's making a party for boys that they're from a secular background we reached out to a musician and a few if you have the very labeled dancers and they all agreed and all came and we reached out to Rabbi to come speak and everyone volunteered in their own way and everyone was happy to participate and make this party what it ended up being it was a foreign magazines I didn't know what to expect it was my first real Hanukkah that was uh something that had a strong base to it instead of a less traditional Hanukkah where there's probably shrimp on the table nice sit down next to this guy his name is Gus as we started to speak with each other we got a little bit acquainted at the end of the event we exchanged our phone numbers and I asked them she would wouldn't mind coming over to our house for Shabbos going to his household is like such an amazing experience he has these wonderful children who come from a completely different upbringing than I had I would never think that these kids growing up in in Borough Park would ever want to even associate themselves with somebody who looks like me two days later in the beginning it called me that he got a call from a Asia Rabbi in college campus in Albany that one of the students that came after the Hanukkah party came home and he called his Rabbi and he sent him an email and he called him he got a push he wants to do a breast his Rabbi got flamed and didn't know what's doing over here I'm with them already two years and never heard such kind of talking he wants to do everything you know when I was at the Hanukkah party I met somebody there who befriended me Moshe Unger and he said you know maybe we can get together to learn at some point I'm sure you know why not you know it's one thing to just be there and and have a nice you know celebration of Hanukkah it's another thing to you know be offered the opportunity to learn it's good to have people to learn with that that care about you know your your soul he tells me that he's just as lucky to have someone like me to learn with it feels good to know that uh we as Jews are really able to uh accept one another no matter where we come from