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Chabad of NE Rural Arizona

Jewish Community Center

Jewish outreach organization dedicated to providing the spiritual, emotional, and material needs of Arizonans who live distant from formal Jewish infrastructure.

Rabbi Yaakov and Tiferes Cahnman with their children and the Mobile Jewish Center

That’s what Suzanne Miles of Show Low said—after two years of believing she was the only Jewish soul in the entire White Mountains region.

Across the ponderosa pines of Rim Country, the cool lakes of the White Mountains, and the wide expanses of Gila, Navajo, and Apache Counties, Jewish souls are scattered like stars. Some are retirees. Some are ranchers. Some haven’t set foot in a synagogue in fifty years. All of them are family—and Chabad of NE Rural Arizona exists so that not a single one is ever forgotten.

We are Arizona’s first permanent roving Chabad center, dedicated to bringing the warmth and joy of Torah-true Judaism to every Jew in the rural northeast—with active programming in Payson, Pinetop-Lakeside, Show Low, and the towns and homesteads in between.

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Programs

Sukkot Payson Event
Sukkot Show Low Event
JLI: Judaism Decoded
Adult Education
Weekly Torah Class
Winter and Purim 5785 (January-March 2025)
Pesach - Shavuot, Early Summer April-June
Chanukah 2025
Purim 2026
Shabbat & Holiday Programs
Torah Classes
Judaica & Kosher Essentials

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People

Rabbi Yaakov CahnmanCo-director
Mrs. Tiferes CahnmanCo-director

What they offer

Chabad of NE Rural Arizona is a Jewish community centre in Phoenix, led by Rabbi Yaakov Cahnman.

Visitors are welcomed for Shabbat and holiday meals. Kosher meals are available on a meal plan. Accommodation for guests can be arranged.

Classes run regularly, one-to-one study can be arranged and courses from the Jewish Learning Institute are taught. There is a library.

Couples are prepared for marriage.

The center visits patients in hospital, visits Jewish prisoners, looks after the elderly, distributes food packages, provides humanitarian aid and runs a soup kitchen.

There is a women's group. Mezuzos and tefillin can be checked here.