It’s almost a tradition in the mid-Atlantic states: When summer arrives, head for the shore.
But for the last few years, another tradition has steadily been taking hold in the New Jersey town of Ventnor, where Jewish community members and vacationers just celebrated the opening of a permanent home for Chabad-Lubavitch at the Shore.
Just in Time for Summer, Synagogue Finds Home on the Jersey Shore
It’s almost a tradition in the mid-Atlantic states: When summer arrives, head for the shore.
But for the last few years, another tradition has steadily been taking hold in the New Jersey town of Ventnor, where Jewish community members and vacationers just celebrated the opening of a permanent home for Chabad-Lubavitch at the Shore.
For years, people in Ventnor who wanted to observe Shabbat could either stay home, or walk the considerable distance north to Atlantic City or south to Margate. But in 2004, suburban Philadelphia residents David Richter and Andrea Lee noticed a decidedly Old World figure walking down the street in front of their vacation home.
Lee, who during the year had been attending programs at Chabad of the Main Line in Merion Station, Pa., went up to the man – bedecked in a black skullcap known as a kippah, a white shirt, black pants and four fringes known as tzitzit hanging down from his sides – and asked him flat out if he was by any chance a Lubavitcher.
He was none other than Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport, the oldest son of Rabbi Shmuel and Tova Rapoport, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Atlantic and Cape May Counties.
Reb Zundel
You didn’t write that this cruise ship goes to S. Africa. Nice to see you Levi.
YSchier
BS”D
Yasher koiach, Avi!
-Yitzchak Schier, Dnepropetrovsk
to Reb Zundel,
that’s an old picture! That is Rabbi Levi Silman, before he moved to South Africa, while he was working with Rabbi Rapoport in Atlantic City.
chanie raps
chabad ac rocks i miss u guys!!
mushka!
hey levi and leah!
so nice to see you guys!
miss ya all- mendy!!!!:)
OUT-OF-TOWNER
WOW!! LOOKS LIKE U GUYS HAD FUN!