Chabad will establish six new student centers on college campuses in Northern Europe over the next year.
The first of the new centers has already been opened in Debrecen, Hungary.
The plans were unveiled by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, chairman of the Chabad on Campus International Foundation during a recent conference for Chabad-Lubavitch campus directors, held in upstate New York.
There are at least 170 Chabad on Campus centers around the world.
The new European campus centers “will serve as a crucial step in reaching out to the tens of thousands of Jewish students across the continent, by providing stimulating social and educational programming and a home away from home for Jewish students from all backgrounds,” said Rabbi Eli Brackman, a coordinator in the new European expansion and the Chabad rabbi at Oxford University
He said the new centers will help in the effort to stand up to anti-Semitism and the continued de-legitimization of Israel and Jewish observance in Europe.
The new centers are being funded by David Slager, who also underwrote the creation of 13 student centers on campuses throughout the United Kingdom since 2000.
Promoting a young man to put on tefillin ONE TIME or a young woman to light a Shabbos candle takes hours of Chabad House input. What makes you think that Chabad Houses can successfully “promote” Aliyah?
Why don’t we just move to Israel and experience antisemitism not just from “local” Islamic Jew haters but also from fellow anti-religious Jews!
How about promoting them to move to Israel?
The more he gives the more he makes. He is blessed that he knows what to do with it and the world is a better place for it. Yasher Koach and Kol Hakovod and thank you Rabbi Kotlarsky for turning the gift into reality
He just is