Vietnam Receives its First Torah Scroll

Rabbi Menachem Hartman (center), Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Vietnam, Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon, and members of the Jewish community recite verses while greeting the new Torah written for the Jewish community in Vietnam.

June 25, 2007

Vietnam's year-old synagogue, the Chabad House of Vietnam, received its first Torah scroll, donated by Mayer and Tzilit Yakovsohn of Israel.

More than 60 people gathered to celebrate in a ceremony, accompanied by Chasidic singing and dancing. Located in Ho Chi Minh City, the Chabad center is the country's first synagogue, and is co-directed by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Menachem and Racheli Hartman, originally from Israel.

The Jewish center serves more than 200 local Jews, and the thousands that travel through on business and vacation.

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