A “Chabad Hub” set up by Chabad of Illinois at the Democratic National Convention offers tefillin, minyanim, and kosher food, for Jewish attendees, and sheva mitzvos for everyone else.
By Tzemach Feller – Lubavitch.com
As thousands of guests, dignitaries and elected officials converge on Chicago, Illinois for the Democratic National Convention, Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois is prepared to welcome Jewish visitors to the city.
Chabad Jewish Center of South Loop, led by Rabbi Mordechai and Mushky Gershon, has created a “Chabad Hub” near the McCormick Place Convention Center, where the DNC will take place. Chabad will offer daily minyanim for prayers, a kosher buffet breakfast, and kosher meal options throughout the day.
Chabad can also be found at the Convention itself—at Booth #213—with a variety of materials and mitzvah opportunities on hand for everyone who comes by.
Rabbi Avraham Kagan is the director of Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois’ office of Government Affairs. Chabad, he says, will be on site doing its thing: providing Jewish resources and raising awareness of the universal moral principles codified in the Seven Noahide Laws. They will also offer customized ARK charity boxes to share the importance of acts of kindness, as taught by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
“The ARK encourages daily acts of giving, turning each of us into giving people and changing the world,” said Rabbi Meir Moscowitz, Regional Director of Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois, which partnered in sponsoring the initiative. “As elected officials and guests from around the world gather in Chicago, we look forward to inspiring a heightened sense of moral and purposeful living.”
For more information about the Chabad Hub and other services for Jewish DNC attendees, visit JewishattheDNC.com.
So dynamic, needed. Tiskoo lmitzvoth for being there! I do sense that these days the RNC would be a place already more aligned with more ethical, productive for all, and philo-semitic policies. But political parties is a man made power grab structure overall. Whereas G-d and His commandments — 613 or 7– are the True Power and rightful policy structure so to speak. His children may be lost in conventions of the right or left, but the Rebbe’s shluchim are there for everyone, towards each one’s true ability to make the world a truly better place BH. We want Moshiach now.