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Arriving in Houston, Texas, in 1972, Rabbi Shimon Lazaroff and Rebbetzin Chiena Lazaroff (née Schapiro), have facilitated expansive growth of Chabad branches and activities in Texas. [3] In Houston since Rabbi Lazaroff’s arrival, in particular, there has been an increase in the number of orthodox and Hassidic Jewish families.
The first Chabad house for university students was opened in March 1969 at the University of California, Los Angeles by Cunin. [ 2 ] In 1972, Cunin opened additional Chabad houses at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego , [ 3 ] and, by 2003, had overseen the establishment of nearly 100 Chabad houses in ...
Chabad on Campus International is a division of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad Lubavitch movement. It is the umbrella organization for the Chabad on Campus network one of the largest Jewish organizations serving college campuses, with over 482 permanent branches on North American campuses, and an additional 468 globally.
A Chabad house is a form of Jewish community center, primarily serving both educational and observance purposes. [87] [failed verification] Often, until the community can support its own center, the Chabad house is located in the shaliach 's home, with the living room being used as the "synagogue
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The term "Chabad House" originated with the creation of the first such outreach center on the campus of UCLA by Rabbi Shlomo Cunin. [19] In the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the local Chabad House was targeted. [20] [21] The local Chabad emissaries, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, and four other Jews were brutally murdered. Chabad received ...
Office of Education (Chabad) — a guidance, training and service center for administrators, educators, students and parents of Chabad-Lubavitch educational institutions [20] Shluchim Exchange — an online service founded in 2005 to facilitate communication among over 1,500 Chabad shluchim [21]
Abraham Shemtov (born February 16, 1937, Moscow, Russia) is a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi and a shaliach ("emissary") of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.. He is chairman of the board of Agudas Chasidei Chabad, the movement's umbrella organization, and was entrusted by the Rebbe with various missions, among them as the movement's envoy to the White House and Capitol Hill.