The Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life and Hillel at Binghamton will sponsor its annual Mitzvah Marathon Fair in remembrance of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks for members of the campus community on Sept. 13.
As in years past, thousands of students, faculty and staff are expected to participate in the daylong event, which is designed to offer opportunities to perform good deeds in memory of lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, as well as all victims of terror.
Participants will fill out a form documenting their good deed, which will be attached to a picture of a victim of 9/11 and strung along a memory wall erected on campus.
“With the passage of time, it is increasingly important that we raise awareness concerning this national tragedy,” said Rabbi Levi Slonim, director of programming and development of Chabad at Binghamton. “Most of the incoming students were not even born in 2001; this kind of program and others like it gives them pause to consider the event from an adult vantage point.
“As the Rebbe would always say, ‘A little light dispels a lot of darkness,’ ” said Slonim. “This program is designed to give participants a practical way in which they can mark the memory of those who perished and add more positivity and light to this world.”