Rabbi delivers prayer to Congress, documentarian recounts history of guest chaplains

Rabbi Levi Slonim of the Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Life at Binghamton University spoke one day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aiming to show “the importance of unity.”

It’s not every day that a session of Congress opens with a request for charity. Or that a rabbi makes that request by putting a dollar into a tzedakah box as he delivers the opening prayer.