(MULTIPLE PHOTOS) - Found this highly reviewed tour on the web - so glad I did! Beryl Epstein gave me an AMAZING tour of the Chabad Hasidic Jewish neighbourhood in Brooklyn. He often has 6-10 people but today it was just me so I got the custom tour! (Poor Beryl...I asked SO many questions but he was good about it). Saw a Mikvah (ritual bathing pool for women), a wig store (for covering one's hair), and best of all, the yeshiva or school (shown in photo) where young men study the Talmud for 14 hrs per day, 7 days a week. This is a fantastic opportunity to see inside a community that is probably very different from your own. Seriously, I almost burst with happiness!
Doing diversity consulting with LiveOnNY, an organ donation organization in NYC that is reaching out to religious minority communities about signing donor cards. These folks literally save lives. What many don't realize is that donation does not just benefit recipients - for the donor family, it provides light sometimes in the midst of unspeakable loss. Glad to provide any help to the people doing this good, good work.
