New Hospitality Center at Long Island Jewish Hospital

Chabad At The Medical Centers in New Hyde Park, NY, headed by Rabbi Boruch Sholom and Mushkie Wolf, is poised to achieve a milestone: Building a Hospitality Center at Long Island Jewish Hospital.

Last February with the generous assistance of over 800 donors, Chabad At The Medical Centers closed on a property across the street from the LIJ Hospital campus with a modest home situated on it.

The Wolfs have worked tirelessly in assisting the infirmed and their families at LIJ and North Shore Hospitals. Over the years they have touched literally thousands of hearts, typically in peoples’ neediest times. Their work led them into the realm of chaplaincy, meals, hosting, sleeping accommodations near the hospitals, and even in instituting a kidney transplant program in which they assist patients in need of a kidney, nationwide.

Although at first plans were to renovate the home to prepare it for hospital families, demand made it quickly clear that building is the only way to fulfill all requests for accomodations. Now building is deep underway in more than doubling its size so the Shluchim can say “Yes!” to all requests for support and accomodations. Althought the mainstay of demand for accomodations at the Hospital are on Shabbosim and Yomim Tovim, throughout the week, the Shluchim are there to meet all requests for support, be it emotional, logistical, or material in nature.

Rabbi Tuvia Teldon, the Head Shliach to Long Island stated; “having spent many a Shabbas at Long Island Jewish Hospital sleeping on a chair and dining on a tray, I cannot express the importance of having a true 24/7 Hospitality Home right next to the hospital. The amount of families who will benefit from this is impossible to estimate, but we never know if we or our loved ones, G-d forbid, may be amongst them.”

One beneficiary of their work from Monsey, has made a campaign of his own, urging his friends to donate, stating: “This guy has been here for me in very desperate times.” Thus he pledged matching funds of up to $50,000 of what his friends and business associates will donate, to hasten completion of the building.

The building (in which construction began on Gimmel Taamuz) will include, private hospitality suites, a kitchen, a dining hall, a mikvah and most importantly a door that any Yid can knock on 24/7 and be met with open arms and support, in his/her time of need.

From Sunday, August 27th, until Friday, September 1st, 3:00PM, all donations up to $500,000 are being matched by generous matchers, to ensure that the building can be completed and open in early Spring of this upcoming year.