NASHVILLE, TN — Of the top 20 American universities still without a Chabad-Lubavitch Campu center, only two remained. One was the private Catholic university Notre Dame.
Chabad Opens Student Center At Vanderbilt University
NASHVILLE, TN — Of the top 20 American universities still without a Chabad-Lubavitch Campu center, only two remained. One was the private Catholic university Notre Dame.
The other, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, joined rest of the Ivies and exclusive colleges this week when Rabbi Shlomo and Nechama Rothstein were named Chabad campus representatives.
“Shlomo and Nechama are personable, open, intellectual and full of energy. I think they will be the perfect match for Vanderbilt,” said the director of Chabad of Tennessee, Rabbi Levi Klein.
The Rothsteins will be moving into their apartment, which is shouting distance – literally – from freshman housing, at the end of November, right before Chanukah. The opening of Chabad center at Vanderbilt is in merit of Rabbi Zalman and Rebbetzin Risya Posner and is under the auspices of Chabad of Tennessee.
Both Rothsteins are about the same age as the students they will serve, but they’ve been preparing for this position for years.
Nechama Rothstein grew up in Berkeley, CA, with the community mikvah in her backyard. Both of her parents work closely with longtime Berkeley shluchim, Rabbi Yehuda and Miriam Chaya Ferris. Her mother runs the mikvah. Her father is a kosher supervisor. Having UC Berkeley students at the Shabbat table, listening in to the discussions and offering up her own opinions was part of her upbringing. “The students became part of our adopted family,” she said.
Uncle Levi
NECHAMA!
SHLOMO!
THE MENSHKY!
We Love you guys so much and may Hashem bless you with huge buckets of success and lots of nachas to the Rebbe.
YG
hey shlomo, good luck from YG.
auntie ashirah
Yay! finally its official! cant wait to visit nashville…
Nashvillian
we can’t wait for you to come
Zalman from MV
Shloimes!!
Noice!!
Mishmor
hey shlomo
your stories are the best
From your best mishmor class ever
Mrs. Cohen
I dont know you personally but the story and the article sound great!
May Hashem bless you for doing shlichus!
Tamir Goodman
Hatzlacha Rabah!May you guys go from strength to stregnth and Bracha to Bracha!
Tamir Goodman
TA and Ma Weltonian
yay!Now I know that the picture from Pesach with the Civil War uniforms and Nechama as a Southern Belle were meant to come true! TKC Tennesee Kosher Chicken and Colonel Shlomo.
Sarah Michlin
Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! May you go "from strength to strength" while being sources of nachas for all of us.
Aunt Sarah and Uncle Shalom Michlin
lcc
morah nechama and family
much hazlacha!
missing you back here