(New York Jewish Week) Jonathan Mark - The Salute to Israel parade will be "huge," as Donald Trump would say, and indeed he'll be the grand marshal of it all, leading an unprecedented 100,000 marchers from more than 400 groups up Fifth Avenue on Sunday. Despite the backdrop of wartime solemnity, parade organizers in New York were positively jaunty, predicting that this 40th edition of the parade will be the most spectacular in quite some time, with a kaleidoscopic burst of balloons, flags, and props arching above the marchers. The theme of the parade will be "Let's go to Israel now!"
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