Congregation Keter Torah and Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County will welcome Scholar-in-Residence, Sasson Reuven, retired elite IDF paratrooper. Mr. Reuven will share the heroic tale about his participation in “Operation Thunderbolt: The Miracle at Entebbe” in honor of its 40th anniversary, and offer his message of adventure and tolerance on Wednesday, May 25, at 8 p.m. at Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck.
During the terror-filled years of 1973–1976, Sasson “Sassy” Reuven, a veteran of the Israel Defense Special Operations Forces, served in the IDF’s elite “Red Beret” paratrooper unit. He participated in several covert operations in Israel’s mighty struggle against Arab terrorism.
In July of 1976, Sassy participated in the famed Entebbe counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission code named “Operation Thunderbolt,” flying thousands of miles over enemy territory to rescue Jewish hostages being held by terrorists in Uganda. Sassy will share his personal experience, step by step from the moment he was called to duty, including the preparation for the mission, landing in Uganda and completing the mission behind enemy lines.
Sassy’s story is Israel’s story: of courage, endurance, defiance and a willingness to sacrifice it all for the right to live in your homeland in freedom.
About Congregation Keter Torah: Led by Rabbi Shalom Baum, Congregation Keter Torah is based on personal responsibility to enrich our individual commitment to Torah as a dynamic force and blueprint for living, and a communal responsibility to impact upon the spiritual development of the Kehilah and Klal Yisrael. We strive to serve God with dignity through a sincere and meaningful Tefilah and by hosting many Torah scholars who can share the depths of their knowledge with the Kehilah and the community. We continue to grow individually and as Kehilah in our collective responsibility to Torah, Kiruv, Chinuch, Chesed, Tzedakah and Ahavas Yisrael. In this way we can serve as role models for our children, who will be the leaders of the next generation. If we are successful in developing this type of Kehilah, then we will have fulfilled our mission and our dream. For more information about Congregation Keter Torah, please visit our website at www.ketertorah.org.
About Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County: Led by Rabbi Ephraim Simon, Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County is a Jewish community center in the truest sense of the term—the nerve center of all the educational and outreach activities of the Chabad-Lubavitch, serving the needs of the entire Jewish community, from the youngsters to the elderly, and everyone in between. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, taught that Jews are Abraham’s heirs and our doors are always open. As inheritors of Abraham’s kindness and compassion, his selfless commitment to the cause of making God known in the world and revealing Godliness in every place on earth, Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County and Chabad worldwide will not rest until the wellsprings of Torah have spread forth everywhere, “to the West and to the East, to the North and to the South.” For more information about Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County, please visit www.chabadhouse.com.
