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Hungary’s 3rd Largest City Gets New Shluchim

Rabbi Chaim Shaul Glitzenstien and his wife Chaya Mushka (nee Sosonkin) along with their baby girl have moved on Shlichus to Szeged, which is the third largest city in Hungary.

The city of Szeged is home to the University of Szeged, which is one of the most prominent higher education institutions in Central Europe. The Glitzenstien’s will run a Shul along with Shabbos programming that will cater to the many Israeli Medical students who study at the university.

The rest of the week they will live nearby in the city of Budapest, and will join the teaching staff of the Beis Menachem elementary school and Gan Menachem kindergarten, which had moved to a new building last year  which caused positive growth in the organization.

Some of the Shluchim to Budapest, led by head Shliach Rabbi Boruch Oberlander, Rav of Budapest, greeted the Glitzenstien’s at the airport, and it was a special scene as the Chabad Shluchim broke into a Chassidishe dance in front of all the other passengers.

The programs and activities with the Israeli students in the city of Szeged will be a continuation of the activities of Shliach Rabbi Shmuel Raskin the Rabbi of the Israeli community in Budapest.

There is already another branch of these activities in the city of Debrecen, Hungary’s second largest city in population, which serves as the regional center of the northern plateau region, by Rabbi Shmuel Feigin and his wife.

With the addition of the Glitzenstien’s Hungary is now home to twelve families of Shluchim!

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8 Comments

  • sruli

    Mazel Tov! Szeged is a wonderful city…visit it often on business. It is about time we have shluchim there.

  • Chava

    Mazel tov! And FYI, R Oberlander is not the Rav of Budapest. We don’t have “a” rav in Budapest. Unless this a chabad expression that only relates to the lubavitcher community of Budapest.

    • Zoli

      You are right “rabbi” Radnoti they should have written the only Rav in Budapest since he is the only one who can give a get, give proof of judaism, give a reliable hechsher…. Etc. Etc. A title comes with action not with some worthless paper.

  • Tibi Laci

    It seems to me that some Neuolog writers “got hold” of this site. For your information that the only Beis Din in Budapest is the one run by Rav Oberlander. I was just there last week. The only recognized Rav that paskens shaalos for all the frum families and out of towners. The Restaurants and bakeries all carry his Kashrus, so who else is the Rav of Budapest?

  • D. Mandler

    Szeged is my father’s birthplace. It is a remarkably beautiful city that had a very large Jewish population prior to the Holocaust. Every since the end of WWII, there have been Jews living there, albeit in dwindling numbers. It’s very unlikely but it would be great if the new shluchims’ first trip were to the long-established Neologue rabbi of Szeged, Zsolt Markovics, in order to signal their desire to be partners in building up the remnants of the Jewish community of Szeged rather than appearing as rivals there. Clearly, the otherwise friendly Rabbi Markovics, for whatever reasons, has not been able to bring in the Israeli students since there’s barely a minyan in his beautiful synagogue. Chabad may be able to do so.

    Read an article on my impressions of Budapest. I was there last week. (At the bottom of the article, you’ll find a link to my newest short story available through amazon.com, entitled “The Loft.”
    http://drmandler.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/budapest-budapest-is-still-nice/

    • Itzy klein

      Is this markowitz guy jewish? I have heard a rumor about this one when i last visited the city approx. A year ago. Btw the chabad kehila had a nice minyen.