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Chabad at UCF booth for the 9/11 Mitzvah Marathon.
By Justin Garfield have a strong personal con- just the fear of sitting in class
KnightlyNews.com nection with this day because and not knowing how things
they knew someone who was were going to turn out when
People all around the coun- involved in the tragedy. I got home."
try each have their own"My dad was in the tower Koreff's father was lucky
unique memory of how they that day, and I remember enough to escape the tower
feltwhenthousandsofpeople it very clearly," said Jared before it collapsed, making
lost their lives in the acts of Koreff, a PhD student at the this day a blessing for him
terrorism conducted on Sept. University of Central Florida. and his family.
11,2001.Aselectfew, however, "I was in eighth grade, and Thirteen years later,
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Participants in the Mitzvah Marathon wrote
(colors of the American flag) and pinned them
their good deed on
to a clothesline.
red, white or blue paper
Chabad at UCF along withother volunteers sat at a Lipskiersaid."Wefeltthebest
the Sorority Alpha Epsilon table outside of the student way to perpetuate the memo-
Phi and Fraternities Alpha union for four hours with ries of those almost 2,000
Epsilon Pi and Zeta Beta a variety of good deeds set victims of terror is through
Tau gave Koreff, and other up for students to perform, mitzvahs."
students the opportunity to These included donating a At the end of the day, hun-
commemorate and give back canned food item, writing a dreds of people had taken part
with their special event,"9/11 note to an American soldier, in the event, portraying just
MitzvahMarathon."Theevent saying a prayer, calling their how much this day means to
wasinmemoryofSuzannand grandparents, giving topeople around the UCFarea,
Marrisa Cayne's dad who lost charity, putting on tefillin, and to all of America.
his life on that fateful day. putting up a mezuzah and TolearnmoreaboutChabad
Rivkie Lipskier, the co- lighting Shabbatcandles. atUCFpleasevisitwww.jewi-
director of Chabad, and "A mitzvah is a good deed," shucf.com.
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