Israel's Representative to the United Nations Drew Strength from the International Succah on Way to Security Council Meeting on the Goldstone Report

Israel's Representative to the United Nations Drew Strength from the
International Succah on Way to Security Council Meeting on the Goldstone
Report

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Succah of the Lubavitch
Youth Organization stands at the Isaiah Wall directly across from the United
Nations. This Succah, part of many public Succos operated by the Lubavitch
Youth Organization is designed to give Jews who live, work or visit the area
as well as Jewish diplomats that work in varies embassies to make the
blessings over "the Four Kinds" and to have their meals in the Succah.

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In a special reception in the International Succah, attended by a group of
distinguished guests including Consul General of Israel Asaf Shariv, New York
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Michael Miller, Executive Director
Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman, Director
Lubavitch Youth Organization explained the strategic location of this Succah
right across from where "Voices to deny the Holocaust and calls for our
destruction are heard."

Quoting from the book of Ecclesiastes (7, 14) "G-d created one against the
other" Rabbi Butman said: " The message of the Succah is resoundingly clear,
the Jewish People will prevail and it is this Succat Shalom, the Succah of
Peace, that will overcome all the diatribes from across the street and bring
real peace, true peace, to all the nations of the world."

Rabbi Butman stressed what the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson
told, twenty-five years ago, to the then Ambassador to the United Nations
Binyamin Netanyahu to "light a candle of truth" in a place of darkness and as
Prime Minister Netanyahu, now related, that it were the words of the Rebbe
that gave him the inspiration for his speech at the General Assembly of the
United Nations.

Ambassador Shalev made the blessings over "The Four Kinds" and in her response
said that "from here I am going directly to the meeting of the Security
Council where they will discuss the Goldstone report and this will give me the
strength to stand up to our adversaries."

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