Chabad extends outreach from eight Northeast Ohio locations

(Cleveland Jewish News)

When Rabbi Leibel Alevsky and his wife, Devorah, were sent to Cleveland in 1972 by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson to establish the first Chabad house in Cleveland and eastern Ohio, they could not have imagined how the movement would grow regionally under their leadership.

Today, in addition to the Waxman Chabad Center in Beachwood, there are eight Chabad branches in Northeast Ohio, all led by rabbis who the Alevskys call “official shluchim” (emissaries).

 

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