Pesach Conference held for Deaf

The AIMMES organization – Jewish Association for Deaf, Dumb and Hard-of-Hearing – held a major conference event on April 1.

The conference, held at the synagogue Seminar of Israelite de France, included lectures given about Pesach with simultaneous translation into sign language on a giant screen.

In attendance were the Chief Rabbi of France – Gilles Bernheim, Chief Rabbi Alain Goldmann, the president of ASJF – Celine Hayat, President of ACSJF – Dimitri Portnoi, and Isser Lubecki (student in the Yeshiva Lubavitch in Toronto, Canada) who presented a video prepared by Yehoshua Soudakoff, subtitled in French translated by Mrs. Feiga Lubecki.

Hundreds of deaf or hard of hearing individuals participated in the conference.

Special thanks to Mrs. Martine Obadia, the secretary of AIMMES, for the impeccable organization of this unique event, and to Rabbi Marosow and his son, Rabbi Chaim Marosow, and Isser Lubecki for Mitvtzoim.