Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe

R abbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky grew up in Oak Park, Michigan, where his father serves as a Chabad Rabbi. He attended high school at the educational Institute Oholei Torah in Brooklyn, New York, meriting to learn from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory. In 1991, he attended Yeshivah Toras Emes – a rabbinical college situated in Jerusalem, Israel. Upon completion of his studies, he taught at the Yeshivah Gedolah of greater Miami, receiving his Rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Pinchos Hirshprung, chief rabbi of Montreal, and Rabbi Yehudah Yeruslavski, a leading Rabbi in Israel. Rabbi Eliezer also served as a student intern providing educational programs and holiday events benefiting small Jewish communities. He visited cities throughout Eastern Europe, and the Far East, most notably, directing the world’s largest Passover Seder in Katmandu, Nepal.

Rabbi Eliezer is an accomplished educator specializing in Jewish educational programming.

Eliezer has published many books. An expert in Jewish history, his latest book “Out of the inferno” is a documentary of correspondence, maps and photographs of the dramatic diplomatic efforts to rescue the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe from war-torn Warsaw, Poland in 1939, and bringing him to the US.

C hanie Zaklikovsky (nee Altein) was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba - Canada where her parents direct the regional Chabad Center. Growing up in the warm and giving environment of a Chabad House profoundly affected her and helped form her dreams and goals. Chanie left home at a young age to Montreal where she attended elementary and high school, graduating as valedictorian of her class. She completed her college years in Beth Chana of Safed, Israel and graduated with a teacher’s degree majoring in Judaic Studies.

From ChabadMonroe.org