Chabad-Lubavitch of Kyiv

What they offer

Chabad-Lubavitch of Kyiv is a Chabad house in Kyiv, led by Rabbi Yonatan Benyamin Markovitch.

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

Classes run regularly, one-to-one study can be arranged and public lectures are held. There is a library.

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

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

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, helps people who are homeless, runs medical services, counsels families facing cults and missionaries and runs a club for seniors.

There is a men's club. Holiday programs run through the year, hands on. Mezuzos and tefillin can be checked here. Computer training is taught.