The Chai Center

What they offer

The Chai Center is a Chabad house in Dix Hills, led by Rabbi Yakov Saacks.

There is a synagogue on the premises. Visitors are welcomed for Shabbat and holiday meals. 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 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, bar and bat mitzvah instruction, a bar mitzvah club and a bat mitzvah club.

They officiate at funerals. Couples are prepared for marriage.

The center visits patients in hospital, looks after the elderly, works with children with special needs, provides humanitarian aid, runs a free loan fund and runs a club for seniors.

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