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I Turned a Strip Club into a Chabad House

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So I turned this strip club into Kabad House. I had the ability, thank God, to close down this strip club. And what happened next was really what made the story so special. It was a couple of months before Kaneka and I told Rabbi Walawick of five towns. I said to him, the Reb was always so particular and taught us that a place of darkness, we have to turn it into light. So I said, Kaneka is coming up, Rabbi, we have to put a big manura in the parking lot of the old strip club and we have to bring music. I'm going to bring live music. We're going to make a big part and a big public manure lighting at that location. And that's when Rockway Turnpike in Lawrence, right outside Lawrence, Rosedale, New York. And we did it. We had hundreds of people come to the parking lot of the old former strip club. And we were dancing and singing for many hours. But that was all from the Reby's message. Something that's so deep in my heart of anything we can turn from darkness to light. So in this instance, we're taking one of the darkest places and we're making light.