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Detroit Yeshiva Receives ‘Sustainable’ Donation

Investing in our children is one way to guarantee our future, and Lubavitch Cheder – Oholei Yosef Yitzchak in Oak Park, Michigan took it a step future by recently adding a massive solar array that will help reduce the institution energy bill and carbon footprint.

The solar roof array was designed and engineered by GreenLancer.com, is expected to save the school over $300,000 in energy costs in the next 20 years while at the same time providing a clean, sustainable and environmentally friendly power source for the school and will help offset approximately 10 percent of the Yeshiva’s annual energy costs.

The new solar array was installed atop the brand-new $5 million Harry and Wanda Zekelman campus and was funded by Alan and Lori Zekelman, Bloomfield Hills philanthropists who have been the school’s major benefactors for over 25 years.

“The Lubavitcher Rebbe, OBM, under whose leadership this school was founded, was a strong proponent of environmental stewardship. He believed that G-d bestowed upon us plentiful resources of energy starting with the sun which is freely available to us and much easier to harness than other resources. He believed that harnessing this energy as a fulfillment of G-d’s command will provide long term stability for our country,” said Rabbi Mendel Stein, development director at Lubavitch Yeshiva. “As an institution that embodies these beliefs we are proud to have installed a full array of solar panels so we can actually use one of G-d’s magnificent resources in a physical way.”

“The Yeshiva project was a perfect application of our technology,” said Michael Sharber, GreenLancer CEO. “We were thrilled to be able to apply our expertise to a local project that could directly benefit from the ongoing operational and environmental improvements the new system will provide.”

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5 Comments

  • Really?

    The Rebbe was “a strong proponent of environmental stewardship”. Who knew?!?

  • to number 1

    what do you think made Branover a person on intrest.

    his sole mission was solar energy and the Rebbe suported him in all ways.

  • Fresser Rebbe

    BH

    even if the Rebbe didn’t say so, one could find a way to drey anything out of anything,

    like Gan Yisroel in Parksvill is the Rebbes camp, and not Montreal, if its because the Rebbe didn’t visit Gan Izzy in Montreal, well then, the Rebbe didn’t visit Parksvill either, it was in swan lake, and it is well known that the Rebbe advised Reb Avremel Shemtov against selling the camp in swan lake and buying the one in Parkssvill