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Chabad's adherents include both Hasidic followers, as well as non-Hasidim, who have joined Chabad synagogues and other Chabad-run institutions. [ 49 ] Although the Chabad movement was founded and originally based in Eastern Europe , various Chabad communities span the globe, including Crown Heights , Brooklyn , and Kfar Chabad , Israel .
A Chabad house is a centre for disseminating Hasidic Judaism by the Chabad movement. Chabad houses are run by a Chabad shaliach (emissary) and shalucha (fem. for "emissary"); the two are often married. They are located in cities and on or near college campuses.
In Jewish law, a shaliaḥ (Hebrew: שָלִיחַ, ; pl. שְלִיחִים , sheliḥim or sheliah, literally "emissary" or "messenger") is a legal agent.In practice, "the shaliaḥ for a person is as this person himself."
Chabad.org has a Jewish knowledge base which includes over 100,000 articles of information ranging from basic Judaism to Hasidic philosophy taught from the Chabad point of view. The major categories are the human being, God and man, concepts and ideas, the Torah, the physical world, the Jewish calendar, science and technology, people and events ...
Kogan was an emissary of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a prominent and highly observant branch of Hasidic Judaism based in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood in New York City.
In 2010, Rosenfeld was appointed as the shaliach, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Portugal. In the same year the Portuguese Chabad organization was founded, known as Rohr Chabad Portugal in acknowledgement of financial contributions from the Rohr family from New York City. Rosenfeld settled in Cascais, where there is a sizeable Jewish ...
According to the Jewish organization Chabad, Kogan was a rabbi and “emissary based in Abu Dhabi” for the group. Chabad also said that he was “a dual Israeli-Moldovan citizen.”
Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad emissary, was a resident of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates when he went missing Thursday. He is a citizen of both Moldova and Israel.