Lubavitch of
Scotland
It was an evening of mixed emotions at the Lubavitch of Scotlands 43rd
Anniversary Dinner
The
Dinner Table Provost of Eastwood
The
Dinner Table
The evening began with a showing of a video presentation encapsulating the
activities of
Dinner Chairman
The R H the Lord
The Jacobs Sons Dinner chairman Stephen Jacobs welcomed the
guests including Lord Provost the R.H. During his 45 minute address which left not a
dry eye in the house Leibel Zisman spoke about
First
Dinner Chairman Bill Talbot still
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen
with past dinner chairman
Norman Naftalin &
Sora Jacobs
leads
More than once a gun was held to his head but he miraculously survived.
Once holocaust victim
The Provost (mayor) of East
Renfrewshire Council receives the
Miracle holocaust
survivor
The Lord Provost (mayor)
During the evening the Kindness to Mankind
Award was given to the Lord Provost and
During Leibel's visit to the
UK he also addressed 35 Edinburgh students at
43rd Aniversary Dinner
held this week. Some 160 people including teenagers packed into the Giffnock
Shul Hall to
celebrate and be uplifted by guest speaker holocaust survivor Leibel Zisman
of New York.
Alastair
Carmichael
Guest Speaker Leibel Zisman
Lubavitch in Scotland over the last 43 years which was followed by
spontaneous dancing
as everyone said L'chaim and celebrated the accomplishments thus far and
wished every
success for its future.
A moving internet message was delivered by former Giffnock Shul
minister Rabbi Jeremy Rosen
who was responsible for bringing Lubavitch to Scotland. At the time Rabbi
Chaim Jacobs was
employed as Youth rabbi to the synagogue and his wife Sora taught in the
Shul Nursery School.
He noted the feelings of Glasgow Jewry when the first Lubavitch chosid
walked on Scottish soil.
He too was sceptical of their success but stated that Chaim and Sora's
achievements
surpassed all expectations including his own.
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Stephen Jacobs &
his wife Lucy
Provost of
Glasgow
Councillor Sadie Docherty
Present the Glasgow Coat of Arms
to Rabbi & Mrs Jacobs
Yossi, Sholom, Mendel
Councillor Sadie Docherty, and the provost of Eastwood Councillor
Allastair Carmichael.
The toast to Lubavitch was given by Lubavitch supporter Dr Bernard
Groden who listed
the numerous programmes and achievments of Lubavitch director's Chaim and
Sora
and Outreach Workers Mendel and Tzirl. Chaim and Sora are the longest
serving Rabbi
and Rebetzen in Scotland,
the five miracles of his survival despite seeing his parents and
siblings being taken away,
the numerous beatings, shootings and killings, the in-humane conditions in
which he survived
and even going twice on the famous death march at the tender age of
13-15 years.
enjoys the spirit of Lubavitch
Businessman's Lunch Host
Laurence Sammeroff
To Hear the
Tribute By Rabbi Jeremy Rosen
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the ladies in dancing
screamed at him in the camps before he died "When you get out from here
tell the world of all
the suffering of our people". He does not know the name of that man but
his message still rings
in his ears and this is why he travels around the world telling people of
the suffering of our people
at the hand of nazis. Leibel explained how proud he is to be a Lubavitch
chosid and a religious Jew
and how his belief in G-d keeps him going each day. His survival and
everything he has today is only
thanks to G-d.
He told over about the special blessings he received from the 6th
Lubavitcher Rebbe both when
he was still in Europe together with his father and when he first
arrived in the United States
and how it inspires and gives him the strength to carry on.
In his address Rabbi Chaim Jacobs welcomed the guests including chairman
of the first two
Lubavitch dinners held in January and November of 1972 Bill and Alte
Talbot. At the first
dinner only 36 people were in attendance.
Kindness to Mankind Award
Leibel Zisman
Addresses the guests
of Glasgow receives the
Kindness to Mankind Award
Provost for the Glasgow City Council and East Renfrewshire Council in
appreciation of the way
Glasgow and East Renfrewshire welcomed the Jewish refugees of Europe pre,
during and post
world war Two. In responding the provost of Glasgow presented Lubavitch
with the Glasgow city
council coat of arms in recognition of all their efforts.
The event was catered by Lubavitch's L'chaim's Kosher Catering organised
entirely by
Sora
and the evening concluded with a vote of thanks by long standing friend
and supporter
of
Lubavitch Michael Samuel.
The event was sponsored by the Sholom and Pessy Jacobs family
foundation promoting Jewish
Awareness. This enabled the ticket price to be kept at a price everyone
could afford.
Chabad Lubavitch of Edinburgh and 100 members of the Singers Hill
Synagogue in Birmingham
where Rabbi Yossi Jacobs is the chief minister
