Chabad of the Main Line

What they offer

Chabad of the Main Line is a Chabad house in Merion Station, led by Rabbi Shraga Sherman.

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 and a mother-and-child group.

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

They officiate at 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, distributes food packages and runs a soup kitchen.

There is a women's group. Holiday programs run through the year, hands on. They publish.