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

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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SOURCE: Jewish News Services

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L'Chaim in the Succat Shalom, Succah of Peace, across from the United Nations. Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman, Director Lubavitch Youth Organization explains the strategic location of this Succah right across from where "Voices to deny the Holocaust and calls for our destruction are heard but the Succah will prevail." From left to right: Michael Miller, Executive Director Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC);

Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Ambassador Gabriela Shalev; New York State Comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli; Consul General of Israel Asaf Shariv; and Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman, Director Lubavitch Youth Organization.

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