Chabad Center for Jewish Life

What they offer

Chabad Center for Jewish Life is a Chabad house in Newport Beach, led by Rabbi Reuven Mintz.

There is a synagogue on the premises. There is a Judaica shop. They kosher kitchens for the community.

Classes run regularly, one-to-one study can be arranged, 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, 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 and a bat mitzvah club.

They officiate at weddings, circumcisions and funerals. Couples are prepared for marriage. A chevra kadisha serves the community.

The center visits patients in hospital, visits Jewish prisoners, serves military personnel, looks after the elderly, works with children with special needs, distributes food packages, provides humanitarian aid, runs a free loan fund, helps people who are homeless, runs medical services, provides psychiatric care, works to prevent drug and alcohol abuse, helps people find work, counsels families facing cults and missionaries, runs a club for seniors and helps people through addiction and recovery.

There is a women's group. There is a men's club. Holiday programs run through the year, hands on. Mezuzos and tefillin can be checked here. They publish. There is a Torah phone line.