Chabad Teen Club Light Up the Poconos

STROUDSBURG, PA — Sixty teens from the Brighton Beach area spent part of their winter vacation snow tubing in the Poconos mountains. The public school teens belong to the Chabad-Neshama Teen Club, who organized the trip offering the teens an opportunity to celebrate the holiday season in a totally Jewish atmosphere.

“This is the first time in our life that we lit Chanukah candles, it was super”, said Boris Mazoranski of the experience he shared with dozens of his friends. Many committed themselves to become more involved in Jewish celebrations.

Over one hundred Jewish teens belong to the club, the biggest Jewish outreach effort to unaffiliated teens in Brooklyn. The youth are encouraged to take pride in being Jewish, and participate in a variety of recreational and educational programs thought the year. The Teen Club is one of the many programs of Chabad Lubavitch of West Brighton Beach