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New Orleans Chabad Hosts Shabbos for 1100 Students

from the Tulane Hullabaloo:

At a school where 27 percent of the student body is Jewish, Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, is no minor venue. Yet, despite the hundreds of students who show up to weekly dinners, Rabbi Leibel Lipskier decided to raise the bar. 

Shabbat 1000, a Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center-sponsored event, was held at 5 p.m. on Feb. 10 on the Newcomb Quadrangle. More than 1100 students were present.

“Our motto is that there is always space for you at our Shabbos table,” Lipskier said. “Shabbat 1000 is the epitome of that.”

This was the ninth annual Shabbat 1000 and the biggest yet. Most of the food was prepared by students, including a Chabad student group, Sigma Delta Tau, Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Epsilon Phi sororities and Zeta Beta Tau and Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternities.

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