About Us
Rabbi Levi and Chanie Fogelman are the co-founders and directors of the Chabad Center. In the 30+ years since its founding, the Chabad Center has enriched lives across the Metrowest. It first founded the Metrowest Jewish Hebrew Preschool which graduated hundreds of students from towns west of Boston and the Metrowest Camp Gan Israel, originally located in Ashland. They built and founded the Western (take on the "Metrowest") Well Community Mikvah which is used by hundreds of families, annually. Following the success of their holiday events in towns across the Metrowest, including menorah lighting ceremonies in Natick, Holliston, Sudbury, Wayland, Ashland, etc., the Fogelmans established additional Chabad Centers in Sudbury, Wellesley and Milford. Today, the Chabad Center continues to be a center for Metrowest Jewish communities and is the headquarters for Chabads of the Metrowest region, including 26 cities and towns. Located in Natick, the Chabad Center campus hosts a respectable synagogue, the GEO Jewish After School, a Hebrew School, a branch of the Jewish Learning Institute, a hub for social services, an adult education center and a simcha hall.
Rabbi Levi and Chanie would like to welcome you to meet them, at any time, to discover how you can connect yourself or your family to Jewish life in this area or however we can help.
There is no time like the present. Give us a call (508-650-1499), or contact via email ( [email protected] ). You can also message us on social media (though messages are not monitored 24/7).
FOUNDERS Rabbi Levi and Chanie Fogelman OFFICE Administrator: Tal H. [ [email protected] ] Social Media: Karen Edwards YOUTH Rabbi Levi and Batya Naki — The Naki's joined our team in the fall of 2024. As directors of youth programming Rabbi Levi and Batya Naki bring with them great energy and the creative spirit throughout the year. In the summer they run CGI Natick—Metrowest. Batya is also Site Director of the GEO Jewish Afterschool which runs during the school year, at Chabad in Natick. Please click here to read more about them.
SYNAGOGUE Rabbi: Rabbi Levi Fogelman Gabbai : Shmuel Bollen, Steve Black Weekday Minyan Co-ordinator : Yitzchok Cohen Yartzeit Memorial Board : Alexander Abugov Shabbat Kiddush Co-ordinators : MIKVAH Director: Chanie Fogelman [contact: Mikva Message Line ] Inventory: Laura Black Weekly Shomros:
YOUTH GEO After School & Hebrew School Staff Director: Chanie Fogelman [ [email protected] ] Teachers: See here . CTeen U. Instructor: Rabbi Levi Fogelman Bat Mitzvah Discovery Instructor: Mrs. Chanie Fogelman CLASSES Torah Studies Facilitator: Gary Waleik
CHABAD BUSINESS ADVISORY GROUP (CBAG) Chair: Marlene Aron Roger Berkowitz Michael Bernstein Gerald Clarke Sherwin Greenblatt Ralph Judah Jack Kay Rob Meltzer Arnold Zaltas FACILITIES Building Manager: Yitzchok Cohen Maintenance: Victor Camilleri Events Coordinator: Karen Edwards
HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY Chaplain: Michel Milman SECURITY Chief Security Officer: S.B. ______ Our Centers
The Chabad Center brought down the following team members and established these organizations to expand its services in the Metrowest.
Wellesley-Weston Chabad Est. 2000, Serving the Communities of Wellesley & Weston Rabbi Moshe and Geni Bleich Rabbi Mendy and Mushkie Bleich (NEW: 2023!)
Chabad House Jewish Community Center Est. 2001, Serving the Communities of Milford & South Rabbi Mendy and Rochy Kivman
Chabad of Sudbury Est. 2006, Serving the Communities of Sudbury, Marlboro & Hudson Rabbi Yisroel and Shayna Rochel Freeman
- Congregation Bais Chabad - Framingham Est. in the early 1970s by Rabbi Hershel Fogelman Directed by Rabbi Yaakov and Sheva Lazaros since 1978
