Prayer connection at the airport

August 8, 2019, 9:30 am Edit

Newark Liberty Airport manager Frank Radics, left, Rabbis Avremy and Mordechai Kanelsky, Rabbi Dovid Wilansky, and Dovid Hoffer at the Bris Avrohom Jewish information stand. (Courtesy Bris Avrohom)

Bris Avrohom runs a daily information stand in Newark Liberty Airport. Travelers are welcome to put on tefillin, daven Mincha, find information about the Jewish holidays, and recite the Tefilat Haderech prayer for travelers.

Rabbi Avremy Kanelsky of Bris Avrohom, the stand’s director and coordinator, and volunteers are stationed there to greet and support travelers.

Recent visitors were Jewish Agency chief Yitzhak Herzog and MK Rabbi Meir Porush, Israel’s deputy minister of Education.