Top: Bethesda, MD. Bottom: Artist rendering of new Chabad center. Inset: Mrs. Zlata Geisinsky, OBM.
Maryland Jewish Community Sees Remarkable Growth
Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., is one of the most affluent and highly educated communities in the United States. In 2014 it placed first in Forbes list of America’s most educated small towns and first on CNNMoney’s list of top-earning American towns in 2012. The large local Jewish population of professionals, lobbyists, and academics is highly secularized, and one would expect Chabad’s message of traditional Judaism to be a hard sell in the progressive community.
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