Kfar Chabad
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Kfar Chabad is a Chabad-Lubavitch community of about 400 families in Israel.
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[edit] History
Kfar Chabad was established in 1949 by Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn.[1] The first inhabitants were mostly recent immigrants from the Soviet Union, survivors of the terrors of World War II and Stalinist oppression. Kfar Chabad, which is located just outside Lod and about 8 km south-east of Tel Aviv, includes agricultural lands as well as numerous educational institutions. It serves as the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement in the Holy Land. Kfar Chabad is a Lubavitch community.
[edit] Education
"Kfar Chabad is particularly known for its vocational and technical schools. Established with separate classrooms and dormitories for boys and girls, these schools provide rigorous vocational training coupled with intensive religious study. Generally, boys specialize in printing, mechanics, carpentry, or agricultural work, and girls focus mainly on careers in education. Few of the youngsters who arrive at Kfar Chabad each fall from all over Israel are themselves Hasidim." Furthemore, "The Lubavitchers ... settlement in Israel has been a deliberate effort to reverse the modern trend toward Jewish assimilation."[2]
[edit] Political leadership
Previous mayors include Shlomo Meidanchik.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Chabad.org Calendar
- ^ Despite All Odds: The Story of Lubavitch, Edward Hoffman (New York, 1991, Simon and Schuster), p. 154-5
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