DR. LESTER ZEFF, 85, of Troy, died
June 17, 2014.
He was a past treasurer of the
Detroit chapter of the Zionist
Organization of America.
Dr. Zeff is survived by his daugh-
ters and sons-in-law, Debby and Ron
Spinner, Ilene Zeff, and Linda and
Murray Baruch; grandchildren, Mira
and Jonathan Katz and their children;
Sarit and Assaf Chenchinsky and their
children; David and Yael Spinner,
Daniel Spinner, Arieh and Danielle
Spinner, Amitai Ziv Spinner, and
Jonathan, Julie and Justin Giannini;
loving companion, Sabina Heller; dear
cousins, Robert and Susan Zeff.
Dr. Zeff was the loving brother of
the late Dr. Allen Zeff; the devoted
son of the late Irving and the late
Pearl Zeff.
Interment was at Machpelah
Cemetery. Contributions may be
made to Zionist Organization of
America, (212) 481-1500, www.zoa.
org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman
Chapel.
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Rabbi Nachman Sudak,
Head Of Chabad U.K.
London/JTA — Rabbi Nachman
Sudak, chief emissary for Chabad-
Lubavitch movement in the United
Kingdom, has died. He was 78.
Directed by the Lubavitcher
rebbe, Menachem Mendel
Schneerson, to move to London in
1959, Sudak lived there for the rest
of his life, developing and oversee-
ing a network of Chabad institu-
tions throughout the country that
now includes 11 campus centers, 25
Chabad houses and 14 schools.
"Rabbi Nachman Sudak guided
the destiny of Chabad in Britain
for more than 50 years, turning it
from a marginal presence to one
that affected tens of thousands of
lives and changed the entire tone
of Anglo-Jewry,"
said Emeritus
Chief Rabbi Lord
Jonathan Sacks,
according to the
Jewish Chronicle.
Sudak was born
in the U.S.S.R.
Rabbi Sudak
before immigrat-
ing to British
Mandate Palestine and then in 1954
to Brooklyn. In 1959, he was married
in London to Fradel Shemtov, whose
father oversaw the Chabad network
in the United Kingdom at the time.
In 2001, Queen Elizabeth conferred
on Sudak the Order of the British
Empire. Sudak, in turn, presented the
queen with a mezuzah.
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