They were amongst hundreds of students traveling across the globe—some to places like Connecticut, California and England, but others to more remote locations like Chile and Russia. The Chabad-Lubavitch students, who recently completed three years of post-high school learning, were tasked with assisting local schools and nurturing the Jewish community in their given locations for a year, and sometimes two.
The six students who were assigned to S. Petersburg, Russia, in 1994 originally came from Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Canada, France and New York, and were all students at the Lubavitch School in Morristown, NJ.
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They were amongst hundreds of students traveling across the globe—some to places like Connecticut, California and England, but others to more remote locations like Chile and Russia. The Chabad-Lubavitch students, who recently completed three years of post-high school learning, were tasked with assisting local schools and nurturing the Jewish community in their given locations for a year, and sometimes two.
The six students who were assigned to S. Petersburg, Russia, in 1994 originally came from Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Canada, France and New York, and were all students at the Lubavitch School in Morristown, NJ.
They came to assist Rabbi Mendel and Sara Pewzner, the Chabad emissaries who had arrived in the city two years earlier. Awaiting the young students was a challenge –– to bring Judaism to the city’s youth.
They arrived shortly before the holiday of Chanukah.
The culture shock as they exited the airport, where a decrepit bus waited for them, was no deterrence. Their enthusiasm could not be dampened.
They purchased language tapes to help them learn Russian and regularly went to language classes. For food, they ate lots of turkey – including turkey soup – because that is what was shipped from Moscow, their source for kosher food, along with potatoes and eggs.
They slowly learned the ropes. They began studying with locals attending the Lubavitch school, and made daily visits to the nearby Jewish school. They began a Sunday School to teach kids about their Judaism, established a Jewish teen club, and made house visits to any Jew that they heard about.
All this was done while they studied tirelessly for their rabbinical ordinations.
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why cant they continue the story?? now i have to go on chabad.org to find out the rest!
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You can just click on the link on the bottom of the aricle