Chabad Loubavitch Lyon villeurbanne

What they offer

Chabad Loubavitch Lyon villeurbanne is a Chabad house in Villeurbanne, led by Rabbi Schneor Zalmen Gurewitz.

Visitors are welcomed for Shabbat and holiday meals. Kosher meals are available on a meal plan. There is a Judaica shop. They kosher kitchens for the community.

Classes run regularly, courses from the Jewish Learning Institute are taught and public lectures are held. There is a library.

For children there is a Hebrew school, after-school programmes and a children's club.

Older children and young adults have a teen club, bar and bat mitzvah instruction, a bar mitzvah club and a bat mitzvah club.

They officiate at weddings, circumcisions and funerals. Couples are prepared for marriage.

The center visits patients in hospital, visits Jewish prisoners, looks after the elderly, works with children with special needs, distributes food packages, provides humanitarian aid, runs a soup kitchen, runs a free loan fund, helps people who are homeless and runs an orphanage.

There is a women's group. Holiday programs run through the year, hands on. Mezuzos and tefillin can be checked here. A mitzvah tank goes out from here. There is a Torah phone line. Genealogy research is offered. They produce television and radio programs.