NYC Mayor Pays “Personal” Visit to the Rebbe’s Ohel

Without any media or fanfare, and without any prior announcement, NYC Mayor Eric Adams paid a personal visit to the Rebbe’s Ohel on Thursday to pray, accompanied only by his security detail. 

By Anash.org reporter

Without any media or fanfare, and without any prior announcement, NYC Mayor Eric Adams paid a visit to the Rebbe’s Ohel on Thursday to pray, accompanied only by his security detail. 

The visit was not part of any PR campaign, or an effort to shore up Jewish votes. Media was not informed beforehand, and none were present during the visit. According to one individual involved in the visit, the Mayor came for no reason other than to pray, in what he called a “personal” visit.

The Mayor, accompanied only by his security detail, was welcomed to the Ohel by Rabbi Abba Refson, director of the visitors complex there. After he made his way to the actual Ohel, he returned to the tent, where a passerby snapped a picture of the Mayor of the most densely populated major city in the United States making himself a coffee like any other visitor, before leaving as unobtrusively as he had arrived.

“כִּ֣י בֵיתִ֔י בֵּית־תְּפִלָּ֥ה יִקָּרֵ֖א לְכׇל־הָעַמִּֽים”