Overview
- Seventy-six “Mitzvah Tanks,” box trucks used for street outreach, will depart from 770 in Crown Heights on Thursday, March 26, at 10:00 a.m.
- The convoy will spread through Brooklyn and Manhattan to give out thousands of matzos, help men wrap tefillin, and provide Shabbos candles to Jewish New Yorkers.
- Organizers set the parade for a weekday instead of the Sunday birthday date to reach packed Manhattan sidewalks during the commute.
- Teams are outfitting the trucks in Crown Heights, with COLlive set to stream live coverage from preparations through the ride into Manhattan.
- The effort draws on the Rebbe’s 1974 post–Yom Kippur War initiative, and organizers are raising $124,000 at TankParade.com to fund the deployment.