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Banquet Draws Community Leaders From Around The World
November 17, 2009 11:00 AM
Late on Sunday afternoon, droves of men descended upon the renovated New York State National Guard Armory in Brooklyn, taking their seats at tables stretching as far as the eye could see in the cavernous brick building. With main lights kept low and a series of gas-styled lamps illuminating the hall, the atmosphere underscored the banquet’s image of the “Lamplighter” as an analogy for the power of one Jew to affect another and thereby bring a succession of light to overpower darkness.
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