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Weekly Mivtzoim at Rutgers University

The Rabbinical College Of America – Chabad Lubavitch HQ of New Jersey, under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Herson, has been sending student representatives to Rutgers University to do outreach work with the over 7,000 Jewish students on campus.

For 2 years now, the young Rabbis travel to New Brunswick every Friday, where they set up a booth on the main Campus, and distribute Chabad’s weekly brochure “Think Jewish” shabbat candles to the Jewish girls, as well as assisting many of the Jewish boys with putting on the Teffilin.

The Rabbis are met each week with much excitement from the students, the Jewish organizations on Campus and in the wider area.

Every week Hundreds of students come by to greet the Rabbis, pick up the weekly brochure, Shabbat candles, and put on Teffilin. one of the young rabbis proudly says “there has not been a week, where we have not found a Jewish student and put on Teffilin with him for his first time ever! We celebrate Bar Mitzvas on the street every week! Sometimes two or three!”

This Chanukah marked the third consecutive year that the students have been spreading Judaism, Jewish pride and practice on campus. Each year the Rabbinical students arrive at Rutgers with cars equipped with electric Menorahs on the roof, they distribute hundreds of free Menorah kits and Chanukah guides to every Jewish student they meet, spreading the joy and encouraging the message and celebration of Chanukah.

This year the Rabbinical students had a large scale operation on campus, beginning with the first grand public Menorah lighting at Rutgers, with a local Israeli student honored with the lighting of the large Menorah, which stood outside the central student center and Brower dining halls.

They then distributed free Menorah kits and fresh doughnuts to the participants, followed by jewish music and Menorah kit giveaways through the night.

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34 Comments

  • yankele

    nice.
    its also nice to see the chabad house (shaped like 770) in the background.

  • go Rabbi Herson

    Rabbi Herson you do an amazing job in New Jersey the Rebbe must be so proud of you and your shluchim!
    yelchu mechail el choyil!
    men tor nisht nispoel veren!

  • amazing! !!!!

    Pinny super is right up there with mendys Greenberg and Alperowitz taking care of the matzav in lubavitch.
    Vchol karnei rishoim….

    Go pinny!!!!!

  • To number 1

    and for all practical prposes, the 770 by rutgers is not a chabad house. on chabad.org there is no official chabad house by rutgers.

  • Morriso

    Rabbi Herson, is an examplary Shliach, which despite all odds, and those who may stand in the way, continues to do the Rebbe’s work throughout the entire New Jersey! Hatzlocha Rabo to you, and to your Shliach Pinni, and a tremendous Yasher Koiach for all you do!

  • to number 4

    not exactly, but almost:) i wonder who u r to know who runs lubavitch. but kuddos to pinny for all your hard work together with R. Herson. I heard R. Herson personally worked very hard to bring yiddishkeit to rutgers, and spent much time and money. Keep it up!

  • Just wondering...

    Um…
    If you check rutgers.edu there was no school during Chanukah this year, winter break.

  • to #9

    I just looked at Rutgers.edu (http://scheduling.rutgers.edu) and it says there that the semester ended on Thursday december 23.
    which left 2 nights of chanukah mivtzoim for these bochrim which worked so hard and had so much hatzloche!

    Dont write comments that are negative without properly researching the matter.

  • To just wondering... no 9

    You were bored enough to go check rutgers.edu to see if there was school or not? just like I was bored enough to write this comment

  • To just wondering

    Well they have ppl putting on tefillin! you dont need school to do mivtzoim

  • Meir Primishlan

    The Rutgers Jewish Student Center had a Dinner 2 weeks ago with the President of the College as a guest speaker after the Lt. Governor spoke. Seems to me that the Center does tremendous work with outreach to the 7,000 Jewish students on Campus. Kol hakovod, keep up the g8 work!
    Chabad Rocks!

  • rivky

    yes there is a chabad house for rutgers its run by an amazing young couple the shagalov’s they have many programs like sushi and learn and sinai scholars they have many classes and are a great example of shluchim! they don’t live on campus but are close by i believe action is louder then titles!

  • WOW!

    LOOKS GOOD
    chabad of NJ is doing a great job!!
    if its such a big university, why is there no shliach there?

  • To #3

    To #3:

    Is that the same Rabbi Herson that made a lighting with Gov. Chris Christie this chanuka

  • go mendy and pini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    go mend and pini, i remeber you as roomates in motown

  • Mendel

    whos the great guy lighting the menoro, i see him everywhere i even spoke to him but i was embarrassed to ask him his name

  • its amazing

    its amazing how much good work these bochurim are doing, i hope Reb Moshe Herson will bring down a shliach to rutgers, maybe even one of these bochurim doing mivtzoim

  • how?

    how could i donate money to these amazing bochurim for the great work, or at least chanuka gelt

  • donations

    to make a donation in support of the amazing mivtzoim peulos etc. Please email rcarutgers@gmail.com or send a check to the Rabbinical College Of America at 226 sussex ave morristown NJ 07960

  • Reuven

    i never knew that rabbinical college reaches out also around NJ.
    thats a very good thing. and keep it up! hatlocho rabo to all the people that are given over to the rebbe’s inyonim!

  • mendy grossbaum!!

    very nice to see u taking after your father and brthers in taking over the world with the rebbe’s inyonim

  • rabbi herson

    your the bomb!!!
    i was in morristown last year and ur just the most chasidishe guy ive ever seen.
    much hatzlocho!

  • pinni!

    ur always the guy looking for ways to bring the rebbe itto the world.
    i remember u in morritown always running around doing mivtzas etc.

  • i was there in action

    i was there on mivtzoim on chanuka a few years ago and you couldnt amagen what type of stuff go over there… we gave out 180 menoiras in 1 night!!!
    so nice to see the pictures of it.

  • to 24. donations wrote:

    i tried emailing the email address but it didnt work, is there another way for me to donate, i really want to donate and i think many others should do the same. the going on mivtzoinm to rutgers are going just to do mivtzoim even though its a very tough place, i know this first hand from my son who learned in morristown last year.
    kol hakavod to the bochurim

  • To # 20

    There is a whole family who has been on shlichus there for over 21 years not to mention was sent by The Rebbe and work very hard to reach the thousands of Jews going to that campus every day! It would cause a lot of hardships on the family (The shlmuchim and their children) if they would send out someone to compete. Its enough that the bochorim that come now try and interfere and not at leaat TRY and work together.

  • 2 Number 33

    Why do you care? This is all just “fluff”, keep up the work you have been doing for so many years and the Rebbe will have lots of nachas.