RIO DI JANEIRO, Brazil — This month’s Portuguese edition of National Geographic treats its Brazilian readers to an eye-opening, enthusiastic essay on Chabad, with a close examination of the Chabad yeshiva in Brazil.
Titled “A School of Tradition,” the photographic feature opens on a personal note: “My son became sociable and compassionate to those around him.”
National Geographic Explores Chabad In Portuguese Edition
RIO DI JANEIRO, Brazil — This month’s Portuguese edition of National Geographic treats its Brazilian readers to an eye-opening, enthusiastic essay on Chabad, with a close examination of the Chabad yeshiva in Brazil.
Titled “A School of Tradition,” the photographic feature opens on a personal note: “My son became sociable and compassionate to those around him.”
Writing in first person, Claudia Altschuller explores the yeshiva institution through the experience of her son, Daniel, and how the warmth and empathy he gained at the yeshiva shaped him.
The author admits to being profoundly impressed by the yeshiva’s fealty to Jewish tradition, in practice and education.
Having married out, Judaism did not figure in her life she says, until her son met Rabbi Avraham Berkis, a local Chabad representative in Rio Di Janeiro, and wound up becoming a student at a Chabad Chabad’s Machne Israel yeshiva there in Petropolis.
Roddy Munoz, MBA
B’H
Shalom Alechem Rabosai,
Below is a link from the English National Geographic Website for a positive video regarding the Crown Heights Lubavich Community. It is a fantastic introduction to Chabad Yiddishkeit and Minhagim. the link is http://ngm.nationalgeograph…
Kol Tov,
Roddy
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The correct spelling of the Brazilian city is “Rio de Janeiro”, not “Rio di Janeiro”.