Photo Credit: Richard Lobell
NY rally against Met Opera's 'Death of Klinghoffer' opera. Sept. 22, 2014.

On Oct. 20 there will be another protest against the Klinghoffer opera at the Metropolitan Opera. A 100 wheelchair caravan.

Speakers at the Sept. 22 rally were, in alphabetical order:

Rabbi Abadie, Rabbi, Edmond J. Safra Synagogue
Rabbi Algaze, Rabbi, Havurat Israel Synagogue, Forest Hills
Richard Allen, JCCWatch.org
Sgt. Benjamin Anthony, Our Soldiers Speak, Veteran and combat reservist in the IDF, founded organization which brings the proud truth of the soldiers to campuses and communities of the English speaking world
Bruce Blakeman, Congressional Candidate for 4th District NY
DRS High School for Boys Student Speaker – Ari Brandspigel, Student Council President
Ben Brafman, Esq., Criminal Defense Attorney known for representing high profile defendants including celebrities, accused mafia figures and political figures
Dr. Paul Brody, Vice President,  Jewish Political Education Foundation (JPEF)
Rabbi Steven Burg, Eastern Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles Burlingame III, pilot of the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 that was flown into the Pentagon on 9/11, she is the co-founder of Keep America Safe and she is a former flight attendant, lawyer and television producer
Dr. Bill Donahue, Catholic League, Sociologist and Civil Activist
Cong. Eliot Engel (D-NY)
Helen Freedman, AFSI
Rabbi Zev Friedman, Rosh Hamesivta of Rambam Mesivta HS in Lawrence, NY
Beth Gilinsky, executive director of the National Conference of Jewish Affairs
Devorah Halberstam, Ari Halberstam Memorial Fund, son Ari was gunned down on the Brooklyn Bridge by terrorists on March 1, 1994. Ari was 16 years old.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Brooklyn’s Assembly District 48
Rabbi Kermaier, Rabbi of 5th Avenue Synagogue
Mort Klein, President, ZOA
Congressional Candidate Grant Lally, Republican, Conservative and Libertarian candidate for NY’s 3rd Distrcit
Wendy Lanski, Board Member, Strength to Strength, 9/11 Survivor who was in the North Tower on the 29th Floor
Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Executive Vice President, Emeritus National Council of Young Israel
Tony LoBianco, Actor, Film and Television
Attorney General Michael Mukasey, lawyer, former Judge who served as the 81st Attorney General of the US
Laurie Cardoza-Moore, Founder and President, Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, Christian Activist & Leader
Consolee Nishimwe, Genocide Survivors Support Network, Survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda – she was 14 years old. Her father and 3 brothers were murdered and she endured physical torture but she survived along with her mother and younger sister. She is a speaker and advocate for victims and wrote a book “Tested To The Limit: A Genocide Survivor’s Story of Pain, Resilience and Hope”
Rabbi Joe Potasnik, Rabbi and Radio Show Host – He currently serves as the Executive Vice President of the NY Board of Rabbis
Governor George Pakati
Rambam Student –
Lauri Regan, Heads NY Chapter of Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET)
Rabbi Schwartz, Congregation Oheb Zedek on the Upper West Side
Sarri Singer, Founder & Director, Strength to Strength, Israel Survivor of terrorist attack bus bombing on June 11, 2003
Charles Asher Small, Koret Scholar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Rabbi Avi Weiss, AMCHA, Rabbi of HIRR, author, lecturer, teacher and activitst
Westchester Hebrew High School Students – Hannah Cohen and Ben Kahn
MK Nissim Ze’ev
Sponsors of the rally, in alphabetical order were:

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Advocates for Israel (AFI)
AMCHA
Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI)
American Friends of Ateret Cohanim/Jerusalem Chai
Americans for Peace and Tolerance
Ari Halberstam Memorial Fund
Catholic League
Citizens Opposed to Propaganda Masquerading as Art (COPMA)
Christians’Israel Public Action Campaign (CIPAC)
Congregation Havurat Yisrael
Congregation Ohab Zedek
Congregation Or Chayim
Congregation Or Zarua
Council of Orthodox Jewish Organizations of the West Side
DRS Yeshiva High School for Boys
Edmond J. Safra Synagogue
Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET)
Fifth Avenue Synagogue
Genocide Survivors Support Network (GSSN)
Hasbara Fellowships
Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam (HRCARI)
International Committee for the Land of Israel
Institute for the Study of Global AntiSemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Israel Forever Foundation
Israel Independence Fund
JCCWatch.org
Jewish Action Alliance
Jewish Political Education Foundation
Jewish War Veterans of the United States
Kings Country Jewish War Veterans
Lincoln Square Synagogue
MERCL
Mothers Against Terrorism
National Conference on Jewish Affairs
One Israel Fund
Our Soldiers Speak
Phyllis Chesler Organization
Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN)
RAJE
Rambam Mesivta High School
Shalhevet High School for Girls
Shomrei Haam
Simon Wiesenthal Center
SKA High School for Girls
StandWithUs
Strength to Strength
The Bridge Project
The International Conference for the Land of Israel
Westchester Hebrew High School
Yiddish Theatrical Alliance
Yiddish Artists & Friends- Actors Club (YAFAC)
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)

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