Chabad Opens Kosher Bistro at Colorado State

Chabad at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, led by Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, celebrated the grand opening of a kosher bistro to serve the university’s Jewish students, faculty members and visitors.

From the Rocky Mountain Collegian:

The bistro will act as a home of cultural food for the Jewish community of Colorado State University, and also as a place for all students to eat food they know was made cleanly and safely.

The Kosher Bistro is the brainchild of Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, an adjunct professor at CSU, former ASCSU president Eric Berlinberg and university president Tony Frank.

Tony Frank began the ceremony with a speech about the reasoning behind the building of the bistro.

“When students are on our campus, for whatever period of time they’re here, we consider this their home,” Frank said. ” … When people are in their home, they shouldn’t have to go to extraordinary means to worship and live their lives how they see fit.”

Fort Collins mayor Wade Troxell added that the bistro is important to the community, due to the city’s reputation of inclusion whose arms are open to all. He called the ceremony reflective of the kind of community that exists in Fort Collins.

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