Among Americans celebrating Israel’s Independence Day last Wednesday, 5,000 of Minnesota’s Jews turned out for an Israel fair at the Metrodome, downtown Minneapolis.

Amid stands of all things Israeli, was a Chabad-Lubavitch booth, where Director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Upper Midwest, Rabbi Moshe Feller, exchanged greeting with Minnesota’s Governor Tim Pawlenty.

Rabbi Feller and other local Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim and rabbinical students took the time to invite hundreds to do a mitzvah in recognition of the miracles of 1948.

Rabbi Feller also used the opportunity to speak to the Governor about the Noahide Laws.