COLLive
Community News Service
By Yehoshua Soudakoff
Oct 30, 2011
Lubavitch bochurim Yehoshua Soudakoff and Isser Lubecki are both deaf and use that fact to spread Yiddishkeit.
Obviously, in Lubavitch, doing mivtzoim during Sukkos is nothing unique. Countless Jews all over the world have been touched by the mere(!) shaking of the lulav and esrog.
But this year, I think something unique did happen over Sukkos.
My chavrusa, Isser Lubecki, and I made our way to Washington, D.C., right after Shabbos Chol Hamoed ended and spent the next forty eight hours on mivtzoim mode.
First on our agenda was a Sukkos party organized by the local Jewish deaf community of the D.C. area (the organization is known as the WSJD