Debbie and Rabbi Yerah Bensaid are moving to Ivory Coast to open Chabad-Lubavitch’s newest outpost in Africa. She grew up in the Congo.
New Chabad House to Open on the Ivory Coast
Debbie Bensaid has lived in the Central African city of Kinshasa, Congo, for most of her life. She was three months old in 1991 when her parents moved to what was then called Zaire to establish Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa, growing up blocks away from the majestic Congo River and amidst the occasional civil war. Different, you might say, from the life of a typical Chassidic girl anywhere else in the world. Yet for her, Africa is home.
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