So maybe it was a little wet (though the heaviest rain came and went during the first half hour of the parade), but thousands of people marched up New York City’s Fifth Avenue anyway in the 2016 Celebrate Israel Parade on June 5, which this year coincided with Yom Yerushalayim — the 49th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. Many more thousands of Israel’s most passionate supporters lined Fifth Avenue to watch them. American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center was well-represented, both on our float and to listeners around the world who were able to see and hear the sights and sounds of the parade on the Nachum Segal Network. American Committee was the presenting sponsor of live coverage of the parade, anchored from start to finish by Nachum Segal, the internationally-known host of Jewish radio program JM in the AM, and Miriam L. Wallach, general manager of The Nachum Segal Network. American Committee CEO Rachel Wolf joined them in the broadcast booth at Fifth Avenue and 65th Street, near the entrance to the Central Park Zoo, for more than an hour, early in the parade.
Other guests on the program included the inspiring Racheli Frenkel, mother of one of three Israeli teens whose disappearance brought Israelis and Jews all around the world together in shared worry, then grief two summers ago (listen to her appearance here); as well as many notable political and Jewish communal leaders. Enjoy a full gallery of photos from Fifth Avenue here.
- Miriam and Nachum host live parade coverage presented by American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center
- ACSZ banner on Fifth Avenue
- CEO Rachel Wolf joined Miriam L. Wallach and Nachum Segal as they hosted live coverage of the Celebrate Israel Parade on Fifth Avenue, presented by American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center
- CEO Rachel Wolf joined Miriam L. Wallach and Nachum Segal on the air during live parade coverage presented by Shaare Zedek
- Rain? No problem. Unicycles have all-wheel drive.
- Nachum Segal models NSN/Shaare Zedek sunglasses
- Police officers on Fifth Avenue near NSN broadcast booth
- Senator Charles Schumer stopped briefly to chat with Nachum during live parade coverage presented by ACSZ
- Excited marcher from Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey passes NSN broadcast booth during live coverage of the 2016 Celebrate Israel Parade presented by the American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem
- Students from Torah Academy of Bergen County (TABC) stopped briefly at NSN booth on Fifth Ave
- “Continuing live coverage…”
- Rabbi Chaim Hagler, Head of School at North Jersey’s Yeshiva Noam, stopped briefly at the Nachum Segal Network broadcast booth on Fifth Avenue during live coverage presented by ACSZ
- Racheli Frenkel was a guest during live parade coverage on NSN presented by American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center
- Racheli Frenkel
- NSN broadcast booth on Fifth Avenue
- Rachel Wolf on air with Nachum and Miriam
- Rachel Wolf on the air with Miriam L. Wallach (center) and Nachum Segal
- Rachel Wolf and Miriam Wallach
- Nachum Segal hosted live coverage of the Celebrate Israel Parade on Fifth Avenue, presented by American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center
- ACSZ on Fifth Avenue
- ACSZ on Fifth Avenue
- ACSZ CFO Sam Tuchman and family proudly carried our banner up Fifth Avenue
- The 2016 American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem Float, passing 65th Street at Fifth Avenue in the Celebrate Israel Parade. (photo by Meir Kruter)
- The 2016 American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem Float, passing 65th Street at Fifth Avenue in the Celebrate Israel Parade. (photo by Meir Kruter)
- The 2016 American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem Float, passing 65th Street at Fifth Avenue in the Celebrate Israel Parade. (photo by Meir Kruter)
- The 2016 American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem Float, passing 65th Street at Fifth Avenue in the Celebrate Israel Parade. (photo by Meir Kruter)
- Police officer on Fifth Avenue near the Nachum Segal Network broadcast booth