Agudah/FJCC Voting Video

The importance of voting with our floppish community is crucial. I'm in Albany almost every week and I'm there talking to elected officials, talking to their staff, being conference rooms, behind the scenes, watching as I say how the sausage is made, how how things come together. We have opportunity to kill those that we no one ever sees. We have tremendous opportunity being there, seeing there, >> [music] >> being part of it, working with them. At the end of the day, everything we've accomplished on behalf of the community through our floppish coalition has been accomplished because our community has come out and voted. Elected officials look at the bottom line. They look at the numbers and the community that votes is a community that is heard. Two things. Support for our education. [music] The most important thing our community thrives on our education system. The Yeshivas are our crown jewel of [music] our community and it's so important our Yeshivas have the right support, whether it's educational independence, whether [music] it's proper funding and support. Whatever money we get, the funding we get, it's so important that those money goes to those Yeshivas. Safety and security. Proper security funding, buffer zone bills, how we [music] work work this year to get a buffer zone bill bill passed to keep out there, you know, people should go to a synagogue or or shul and not have demonstrators blocking [music] the door. We are constantly consulting with the Rabbonim and Roshei Yeshiva in our community and under their guidance, their dast Torah, we are able to make the decisions and present the case to elected officials. 65 years ago, 1961, when Rabbi Moshe Sherer, the late president of Agudath Israel, was on the front page [music] of the New York Times testifying in Congress then, 65 years ago, it was a long crusade [music] and we've gotten to the point now where we had on the federal level the education tax credit, now it's coming to New York State where we will finally see real relief. This has been Agudath Israel's his one issue [music] for literally 65 years. The most refined scene decades ago said that it's a mitzvah to vote. It is the basic of his target. The voice I our his target list is to go ahead and do what we can do and that will show the that it matters to us and we can do our part. Yes, I shall run the world and yes [music] leave me alone the sun the other sun but we need to do our work. >> All of you see what has been going on since October 7th [music] in this country and it is imperative that we get out there and we vote. >> I shall give us a gift. He gave us the ability to vote. If you didn't go to vote 20 years ago and because of that you never registered, maybe I understand but now there's not enough going on to tell you get up and use the gift. >> It's literally a kid in the shower. At the end of the day, we're part of a process and we show all of the inhabitants of the United [music] States, of New York, of all the environments that we're at that we take the responsibility to have our voice being heard. If you don't like it so the rabbonim all believe everyone has an obligation to vote. If this is not a time that we could step [music] forward and vote it never will be a time. >> Every vote counts. Every vote is crucial. We have to make that statement that they see. Yes, you didn't come out. >> The polls now open. Please go out and vote today. It's your last [music] chance. It's so important that each one of us gives their voice out there. Voting gives us the ability to do what we have to do. The rabbonim have asked us every single person, please go out and vote. Do your part. It helps us all. We all [music] benefit from it.