Leah Garchik reports in the S. Francisco Chronicle:
A community of Orthodox Jews has arrived in one of the poorest South of Market areas, “to assist in the building of a Jewish thoroughfare on Sixth Street, with kosher food, music and joy coming into the neighborhood,” says Rabbi Yosef Langer of the Chabad Center.
Langer announced last week that the Koret Foundation is investing in the neighborhood with a $200,000 capital funds grant to the Chabad Center and SOMA Shul, a gathering/worshiping place for traditional Judaism.
It’s on Sixth Street between Mission and Howard, just across the street from Frena, the new kosher bakery.
Langer presides over Chabad, which says it offers Jewish education and a Hasidic synagogue “for inspired worship.” More than 100 people attended a recent seder there.
“Positively Sixth Street” is the name of its community-building project.
Langer, a Hasid on a bicycle, says he is reaching out to longtime residents to forge mutually beneficial friendships and alliances. “Our hope is that this center will be the lighthouse,” he says.
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Positively Great!
does not get better then that!!!
your friend from NYC
Hatzlacha Rabba, Moshiach Now!
You are a true tzadik
Congratulations Yosef! Great to see continuing to rake in the netsusos in your very unique and Chashuva part of the the world.
Yosef Shandling here.
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Hinda & Yosef = The Real Deal
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