Celebrating 10 Years of Training Future Shluchos

The Chaya Aydel Seminary, celebrating this year its decade of existence in Hallandale Beach, Florida, has become renowned throughout the world in training future Shluchos and Community Leaders.

High school graduates come from around the world to Hallandale Beach, and after their year in Seminary in Florida, are usually inclined to go out on Shlichus and/or to become Community Leaders. A huge percentage of Seminary graduates, after they married, have taken up positions as Shluchos, serving in the capacity of Rebbitzens, teachers, and co-directors of Chabad Houses throughout the globe. Others have become leaders in their respective communities.

In addition to an intense learning program, that features twenty different teachers each week, in subjects that range from in depth Chassidus to hands on Halacha, from Educational Psychology to Teacher Training, the Seminary also features a unique opportunity for the young women to explore their talents in a wide range of Shlichus opportunities. These experiences include assisting in the organization of the Worlds’ Largest Chanukah Festival, the South Florida Lag B’omer Parades, as well as a weekly Learning Outreach Program every Wednesday night, for girls and women in the tri-county area (Broward, Dade and Palm Beach), Hebrew Homework Night in Florida for boys and girls, and weekly visits to nusing homes, and shopping malls, where they visit the infirmed and go on Mivtzaim. Above and beyond the high level of learning and outreach, the Chaya Aydel Seminary is renowned for its warm and Chassidishe atmosphere, where every girl is nurtured to tap in to her inner strengths, talents and unique qualities.

Rabbi Yossy Lebovics, principal of the Seminary since its inception, points out that girls from some 20 countries have attended the Chaya Aydel Seminary. “The combination of an intense learning program, offered by the huge talent base of teachers in South Florida, and the interaction with the dynamic staff of Chabad of South Broward in many Hafotzah projects”, has contributed greatly to the success and popularity of our Seminary. The Seminary is named after the late Mrs Chaya Aydel Lebovics, z”’l, a renowned and talented Mechaneches from Montreal. Mrs Lebovics was the mother of Rabbi Lebovics, and older sister of Rabbi Raphael Tennenhaus, dean of the Seminary and director of Chabad of South Broward.The late Mrs Lebovics had a special ability to nurture her students and many others, and the Chaya Aydel Seminary Students have benefited for a decade, in being simultaneously educated and nurtured in a very uplifting, and caring setting.