CHABAD = LEADING TORAH OUTREACH WORLDWIDE And the only state without a Chabad is… --------jta.org/---------- Some 4,200 Chabad rabbis from more than 80 countries are gathered in November in New York for the annual conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries. ► The Jewish outreach organization they represent has put down roots in five new countries and one new state, Mississippi. That brings the number of American states with a permanent Chabad presence to 49. Which had JTA staffers wondering: Which state is the holdout? It’s South Dakota. South Dakota has just 345 Jews, according to the 2013 edition of the American Jewish Yearbook. ► Synagogue of the Hills in Rapid City, near the “Old West” town of Deadwood, traces its roots back to the gold rush era, though it was established at its current location in 1957. Some 350 miles to the east, in Sioux Falls, is Mount Zion Congregation, founded as a cemetery society in 1903 and as a synagogue 16 years later. ► B’nai Issac in Aberdeen, the state’s sole Conservative synagogue, is closing in on its centennial ► And just because South Dakota is the only US state without a permanent Chabad emissary doesn’t mean that the Brooklyn-based Hasidic movement doesn’t serve the state. Rabbi Yonah Grossman, Chabad’s Fargo, N.D.- based emissary, visits the state on occasion. So, too, does Chabad’s “Roving Rabbis” corps, which makes periodic trips to South Dakota. [click below to read more] ✔ via the Kosher Culture Foundation [● LIKE & SHARE ●] ✡facebook/KosherCulture
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 02:45:19 +0000
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