Chabad-Lubavitch has flourished in Argentina since 1960. With a total of more than forty Chabad-Lubavitch institutions throughout Argentina, the opportunity for Jewish life and learning is available to all. A multi-million dollar headquarters in Buenos Aires is the home of the majority of Argentinean Jewry, providing the community with a beautiful environment for their spiritual renewal.
In Bolivia, once home to thousands of Jews who fled from the holocaust, there are less than a thousand Jews left. Though Chabad has been sending student emissaries to help the Jewish communities each year, there haven't been permanent emissaries until a short while ago in 2001. Since they have been there, Chabad has been teaching children, teens and adults all about Judaism not only in La Paz (one of the highest cities in the world), where they are based, but also in the cities of Cochobamba and S. Cruz. Each week each household receives a weekly torah paper about the Parsha and holidays.
Chabad-Lubavitch's first representative to Brazil was a shochet, sent by the previous Rebbe prior to World War II. That presence has grown dramatically over the years. There is now a Chabad-Lubavitch center in virtually every area with even a small Jewish community, providing a wide variety of Jewish activities, throughout Brazil. Chabad-Lubavitch has translated dozens of Jewish books into Portuguese, and publishes Chabad News, a high-quality Portuguese language monthly, that it distributes to many of Brazil's Jewish homes. S. Paulo is also home to a vibrantly growing Lubavitch Day School, renowned for its innovative educational methods and accomplishments.
Chabad-Lubavitch has been present in Chile since 1981. During that period, a Chabad-Lubavitch center has become a focus for year-round and pre-holiday educational programming. In addition, Chilean Jews send their children to pre-school and summer camps where they are immersed in their Jewish heritage and experience the joy of Jewish tradition. The excellent attendance at the Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue is testament to its steady growth in Chile.
Chabad-Lubavitch began its outreach activities in Colombia in 1980. What began as a series of adult education classes and pre-holiday workshops has grown into two full-fledged Chabad-Lubavitch Centers in Bogota and Baranquilla. The full array of programs now offered includes talmud torah classes, a Lubavitch pre-school and a much appreciated Jewish women's program. Adult education and outreach programs are also expanding at a remarkable rate.
Chabad-Lubavitch began its outreach activities in Costa Rica in 1989.
Activities span from daily synagogue services to a pre-school, day school
and Talmud Torah. Summer and winter camps as well as "traveling camps"
provide children of all ages with a fun time in a Jewish environment.
Holiday guides and magazines are printed and distributed to the Jewish
community and special Shabbat and Holiday programs are held for Israeli
students.
Ever since Chabad-Lubavitch came to Panama, it has been working with the Jewish community, organizing summer day-camps, running holiday awareness programs and sponsoring adult education classes.
Paraguay is home to a relatively small number of Jews. Nevertheless, in keeping with Chabad-Lubavitch' s commitment to reach all Jews, the country's 1,000 Jews are well served by Chabad-Lubavitch since the arrival of its first full-time shliach in 1988. The Chabad-Lubavitch Center includes a synagogue, Jewish library and facilities for a talmud torah program. Chabad-Lubavitch also publishes, and distributes to every Jewish family in Paraguay, a monthly magazine covering topics of Jewish interest.
Lima has been home to Chabad-Lubavitch since 1987. The Chabad-Lubavitch Center offers Peru's 3,500 Jewish residents a broad choice of Jewish adult education and youth programs, chaplaincy programs, assistance to senior citizens and holiday enrichment programs. A three-story structure, with a new mikvah, Jewish library, guest rooms, assembly hall and pre-school classrooms, ready already provides Lima's Jews additional resources for enhancing their Jewish living. Chabad-Lubavitch publishes a weekly bulletin which reaches every jewish household in Peru. Chabad-Lubavitch in Lima assists the many tourists in transit, and provides a full service four times a year in Cusco, near Machu Picchu for the passing tourists.
Uruguay's Jewish community has been revitalized since the arrival of Chabad-Lubavitch in 1985. Two Chabad-Lubavitch Centers in Montevideo and in Punta del Este, conduct numerous educational outreach programs. Young Uruguayan Jews have the opportunity to attend a unique tri-lingual pre-school and day school and high school and university students can attend a Yeshiva and receive an uncompromising Jewish education. A kosher kitchen is open to local residents as well as to visitors. Chabad Lubavitch' s outreach programs are enriched by the Jewish library that caters to both adults and children.
The Chabad-Lubavitch educational and outreach programs have generated a renewal of Jewish spirit in Venezuela over the past twenty years. For the 30,000 Jewish residents of Caracas, the community' s Ohr Chabad pre-school and day school are the first introduction to integrated Jewish education. The Yeshiva Gedola has formed the nucleus for higher Talmudic learning as well as a network of Jewish youth programs and summer camps which provide Venezuelans with learning opportunities in a social - recreational setting.
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