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Rubashkin Gathering in Munkchater Camp 2
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At what was an emotional and inspiring event, the Munkchater Camp in upstate New York Catskill mountain's arranged a special gathering honoring and recognising all those children who fundraiserd thousands of dollars for the Sholom Rubashkin Pidyon Shvuyim Fund.
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of your days in camp, your hours of
fought in camp to go out and to raise
money for a year that you don't even
know.
Mish is such a such a hairy thing. I
It's such a comfort for me to even speak
to you over the phone and I thank you
for this
opportunity. What you have
accomplished is unbelievable.
to have raised so much money for this
cause.
It reminds me of the very first day that
I got involved in this over a year and a
half
ago when Sean Morai's
daughter knocked on my
door and she told me about the plight
that her family was going through, about
what her father was going through
sitting in jail in
Iowa. And at that point I realized here
she was driving down from
Albany just knocking on doors trying to
raise money for our
and I said let maybe I can make some
calls for you. Maybe I can do something.
And that was over a year and a half
ago. Much has happened since that day.
Some of it has been
good and
some doesn't seem so good
yet. But I must
say I can be made on
this that every good thing that had
happened in this
case was preceded was based on
first some outpouring
of some amazing unprecedented outpouring
of Islam. And I'll give you if I may
just a couple of
examples. When Sha Moral was arrested
for the second time, the government had
a hutah to say that he should not be
allowed out on bail until his trial.
Why? Because as a
yet he might flee to
Israel. Because Israel has a law of
return that any youth can come to live
in
Israel. When I heard about this in
China, we got together a
few. We organized a trip to Iowa to
protest this. And this was an outpouring
of a among different
organizations working for the cause.