Activities
He is chairman of the International Campaign to Bring Moshiach. He was the founder of the weekly Chabad magazine L'Chaim and has made campaign contributions to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
He is the organizer of the annual Mitzvah Tank Parade and was responsible for the erection of the largest menorah in the world at the south-east corner of Central Park in 2004. He also hosts a weekly radio show called Moshiach in the air and has been the director of the weekly chabad magazine L'Chaim since the 1980s. His weekly "Challenge" column is published in the Jewish Press.
In 1992 he addressed the US House of Representatives at the invitation of Chuck Schumer, representing Chabad in honor of Schneerson's 90th birthday.
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“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one’s own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”
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