Jewish School Moves Into New Mediterranean Home

CANNES, France — A crowd of well-wishers and French politicians feted the recent expansion of the Jewish School of Cannes in a ceremony earlier this week.

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The celebration outside of the renovated former printing house, which since September has housed the school’s 30 students in Grades 1 through 5, drew attention to the region’s only Jewish school outside of Nice, which officials cited as an example of private education gone well.

Rabbi Mendel Matusof, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Cannes, which operates the school, asserted that the new space, which was designed by renowned architect Bernard Espla, “is the nicest school in Cannes, completely modern and brand new. This is going to encourage many Jewish residents to send their children to a Jewish school.”

Currently housed in one third of the building, the school ñ which together with its preschool was founded in 2000 at the Chabad House across the street ñ includes five classrooms, all equipped with computers. Future plans call for the addition of a computer lab and science lab, as well as for moving the preschool, which remains at the Chabad House, into the new building. Matusof said that he hoped to eventually add a high school, as well.

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