{"id":3201,"date":"2013-03-25T18:28:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2013-03-25T18:31:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:31:15","slug":"mitzvah-tank-pre-passover-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3201","title":{"rendered":"Mitzvah Tank: Pre-passover Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, I saw what looks like rented trailers (mitzvah tanks) crossing 26th Street on 6th Ave. They were escorted by police cars. It was a very very long line of trailers. They are covered with Jewish ads promoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitzvahtanks.com\/templates\/articlecco_cdo\/aid\/1495307\/jewish\/Find-a-Tank-Near-You.htm\" target=\"_blank\">their parade<\/a>, which distributes Matzah (unleavened bread), Shabbat candles, etc. to local Jews. There were 63 \"tanks\" in total in NYC. Each trailer had a destination in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The parade is to commemorate their famous late rabbi: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson\" target=\"_blank\">Menachem Mendel Schneerson<\/a>. Whom some consider to be the Messiah of the Jews, while other orthodox Jews abhor the idea. He has created a very firm Jewish community in New York City, especially in Brooklyn where he resided.<\/p>\n<p>However, considering<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nB5f_YDybSw\"> Jorel's Bar Mitzvah<\/a>, I don't think some, if not most of the Jews take these things seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, I saw what looks like rented trailers (mitzvah tanks) crossing 26th Street on 6th Ave. They were escorted by police cars. It was a very very long line of trailers. They are covered with Jewish ads promoting their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3203,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}