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Chabad of Downtown Boston

Chabad House

Chabad House in Boston, Massachusetts, led by Rabbi Yosef Zaklos.

Chasidim [Anshei] Libawitcz (Chabad)synagogue was founded 1889 [1890] in the city of Boston's North End on 188 Hanover St. The location was a very Jewish neighborhood at the time. In 1894, it moved to 180 Hanover, and then in 1897, to 11 Hanover St.

The book pictured (right) has a stamp in the upper right hand corner noting the year the congregation was established in Boston : 1889.

In the 1900's it moved again to the West End on Leverett and Barton St. * (not longer existent, they were bulldozed as part of an urban renewal project). Eventually the congregation moved to 8 Smith Court in Beacon Hill where it remained active till 1972. (Subsequently, it became the African American Heritage Museum).

Interestingly, the previous Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson OBM visited Boston in the Jewish month of Sivan (late spring) 1930 as part of a larger effort to meet local Jewish communities and to galvanize assistance for Russian Jewry.

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Programs

Boston's Shul - Synagogue
Holidays
Tefillin Club
Kosher Food
Mikvah
Mezuzah Campaign
High Holidays
Sukkos & Simchat Torah
Chanukah
Purim
Passover
Shavuot
Jewish Learning Institute
Executive Jewish Learning Institute
CTeen University
Shabbat Morning Services and Kiddush

Adult learning

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People

Rabbi Yosef ZaklosCo-director
Mrs. Shayndel ZaklosCo-director

What they offer

Chabad of Downtown Boston is a Chabad house in Boston, led by Rabbi Yosef Zaklos.

There is a synagogue on the premises. 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.

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 and bar and bat mitzvah instruction.

They officiate at weddings and funerals.

The center visits patients in hospital, visits Jewish prisoners, looks after the elderly and provides humanitarian aid.

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.