Gary Spitalnik - Colel Chabad Dinner 2015 / 5776

okay gary spatalnik is a consummate mentioned people person he continues to be a rising star who radiates light and warmth toward all of those who know him he is overflowing in goodness sensitivity and joy and is blessed with unbelievable optimism that affects everyone in his orbit gary is there for everyone a true and loyal friend a real nishama who steps up to the plate rain or shine and always with a full heart he is very a humble person and the ultimate behind the scenes leader in driving force which is what a true leadership is all about ladies and gentlemen we present the rising star award to gary spitalnik hold on gary the rising star award presented to gary spatalnik who is a friend and a brother he inspires other to do good he's beloved by all that know you on behalf of kalolhabot international please accept the award gary spatalic thank you uh thank you kenny moskowitz listen up muskowitz uh thank you kenny uh it's very odd because uh we we do hundreds and hundreds of events uh throughout the years in the marquee jet days and now his wheels up and i'm always the guy uh introducing uh kenny so it's uh nice to be introduced by kenny so uh very quickly uh rabbi rabbi rabbi rabbi and we have a lot of rabbis here i want to say uh thank you uh it's it's a real honor to receive the rising star award for the 2015 khalel khabad dinner for hunger and based on the on the smorgasbord that we had uh before here uh it was uh pretty uh pretty crazy but uh incred incredible job and i'm really humbled to receive this award because of course the real stars of tonight are the great people of holland rabbi dukeman and his team who do incredible things for the needy every single day in israel so again another round of applause for the bot team and rabbi dukeman uh one week from tonight uh i will be on my way uh to israel we have a uh family bap mitzvah with my niece and um i look forward to spending some time at some of the things that uh that that the rabbi just mentioned uh that the bar facilities and partaking and seeing uh firsthand uh the work that is uh that is being done uh we were first introduced to khaled almost 15 years ago when we started having friday morning torah study sessions in our old conference room at 230 park avenue and again rabbi dukeman's passion his energy his desire to do good for the jewish people is really infectious and we have been involved ever since so thank you to my friends for your support to my work family at wheels up we like to say wheels up torahs up and of course my mother uh my sister my two beautiful daughters rebecca and brianna and of course my beautiful and incredibly supporting wife of almost 18 years jody thanks again for this great honor and have a very happy and healthy new year shalom shalom thank you