Chabad Center for Jewish Life

What they offer

Chabad Center for Jewish Life is a Chabad house in Hollywood, led by Rabbi Leizer Barash.

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

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

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

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

They officiate at 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 and counsels families facing cults and missionaries.

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