No Jew Left Behind: The Yom Kippur that Ronnie Greenwald z"l Spent in the Lobby

There's an organization in Queens called the Jewish Heritage Center.

It's run by a man whose name is Rabbi Portnoy.

You're nodding your head.

Are you from Queens? but you're just into the Shias, so you're nodding along to tell me that you're with me.

Okay, good.

Awkward moment for both of us.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Okay, so there's an organization called the Jewish Heritage Center.

It's a Kira organization in Queens.

One Yom Kippur, Rabbi Portnoy decided to rent a hotel and to take all these people that were in the process of becoming from, or had recently become from, and they were going to go to the hotel for Yom Kippur.

And it was like, you know, you go to a hotel for Pesach, this is where we're going to a hotel for Yom Kippur.

And Ronnie Greenwald was invited to go to the hotel for Yom Kippur.

They're like, there, to be there, to be mechazik, the program.

The man was like walking charisma.

Riz, he was walking, he was like, he was really an electric personality.

They go to the hotel, and they're at the hotel and they're about to go into and a group of 10 Hasidic kids who were specifically going to the hotel to not have Yom Kippur, showed up at the hotel these were kids who were not observing jews anymore and they were literally like needed a place to be from yom kippur away from their families they rented a hotel and they were going to be at the hotel specifically to get away from being with jews over yom kippur could you imagine their disappointment when they showed up and there's literally like a cure of organization running an event in the hotel on yom kippur i mean what were the chances ten kids seven boys and three girls They showed up, they took one look around, and they said, oh, this has to be a joke.

They went to the front desk, and they started arguing with the clerk at the front desk, can we please get our money back? Like, we did not mean to be with a group of Jews for Yom Kippur.

And the clerk said to them, and rightfully so, he's like, you can't just cancel your reservation at the very last minute.

Like, you rented the room, this is what it is.

And they were feeling very stuck, and Rabbi Portnoy saw what was going on.

So Rabbi Portnoy went over to them, and he said, listen, We're not going to bother you.

I promise you, we're not going to bother you.

This is the Jewish Heritage Center.

It's a Kirov organization.

You could be here.

There's an organization in Queens called the Jewish Heritage Center.

It's run by a man whose name is Rabbi Portnoy.

You're nodding your head.

Are you from Queens? but you're just into the Shias, so you're nodding along to tell me that you're with me.

Okay, good.

Awkward moment for both of us.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Okay, so there's an organization called the Jewish Heritage Center.

It's a Kira organization in Queens.

One Yom Kippur, Rabbi Portnoy decided to rent a hotel and to take all these people that were in the process of becoming from, or had recently become from, and they were going to go to the hotel for Yom Kippur.

And it was like, you know, you go to a hotel for Pesach, this is where we're going to a hotel for Yom Kippur.

And Ronnie Greenwald was invited to go to the hotel for Yom Kippur.

They're like, there, to be there, to be mechazik, the program.

The man was like walking charisma.

Riz, he was walking, he was like, he was really an electric personality.

They go to the hotel, and they're at the hotel and they're about to go into and a group of 10 Hasidic kids who were specifically going to the hotel to not have Yom Kippur, showed up at the hotel these were kids who were not observing jews anymore and they were literally like needed a place to be from yom kippur away from their families they rented a hotel and they were going to be at the hotel specifically to get away from being with jews over yom kippur could you imagine their disappointment when they showed up and there's literally like a cure of organization running an event in the hotel on yom kippur i mean what were the chances ten kids seven boys and three girls They showed up, they took one look around, and they said, oh, this has to be a joke.

They went to the front desk, and they started arguing with the clerk at the front desk, can we please get our money back? Like, we did not mean to be with a group of Jews for Yom Kippur.

And the clerk said to them, and rightfully so, he's like, you can't just cancel your reservation at the very last minute.

Like, you rented the room, this is what it is.

And they were feeling very stuck, and Rabbi Portnoy saw what was going on.

So Rabbi Portnoy went over to them, and he said, listen, We're not going to bother you.

I promise you, we're not going to bother you.

This is the Jewish Heritage Center.

It's a Kirov organization.

You could be here.