Overview

• Fourteen Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday for roughly 20 minutes.
• The delegation, led by Rabbi Abraham Shemtov and Rabbi Levi Shemtov, presented a silver tzedakah box in recognition of Education and Sharing Day.
• The rabbis also gave the president a replica of a 1956 Beach Haven Jewish Center plaque honoring Fred Trump for supporting Holocaust survivors.
• Senior officials were present for remarks and photos, including Lee Zeldin, Stephen Miller, Will Scharf, Paula White, Jennifer Korn, and Martin Marks, with Jared Kushner and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick joining for a group picture.
• Before the Oval Office session, the group briefly met Vice President J.D. Vance and congressional leaders in the Roosevelt Room, with the timing coming near the October 7 anniversary.