By COLlive reporter
A new Chabad center was recently inaugurated in central Jerusalem to provide Jewish teens with a hub to learn and connect.
Located on the corners of Jaffa and King George streets, the center will be run by Rabbi Mendy Lebel and offers a library, meeting room, learning and gaming areas and a kitchen.
It is a branch of the Chabad Lanoar organization (Chabad for youth) in Israel directed by Rabbi Moshe Shilat and coordinated by Rabbi Mendy Kanievsky.
The center was donated by Haim Turpiashvili, CPO and co-founder of Plarium, the mobile, social, and web-based game developer known for games available on Facebook and on iOS and Android devices.
He and his wife Yana donated the center in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son David.
Joining the inauguration were Jerusalem’s Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, head of Tzach in Jerusalem Rabbi Naftali Rot, Shliach in central Jerusalem Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Slonim and Yaakov Halperin, Chabad’s representative in City Hall.
Together with the center’s directors, they placed a Mezuzah on the front door and said L’chaim, blessing the hub to be a beacon of light and Torah to youngsters.
Prominently displayed is a painting of the Rebbe by renowned Israeli artist Shalom Sofer of Jerusalem.
