After two consecutive years of building, Chicago’s Aaron & Clara Jolcover Lubavitch Girls High School has launched a new community campaign focused on the girls themselves.

The campaign, “Empower Every Girl to Shine,” is the next chapter for LGHS, following the completion of its new student center and residence hall, followed directly by the construction of a new school building and the dedication of the Devorah Leah Campus this past September.

“For the past two years, our community came together to build the future of this school,” said Rabbi Baruch Hertz, Rav of Chicago’s Chabad community and Dean of LGHS. “Together, we built the home our girls needed. Now it is time to invest directly in the girls it was built for.”

LGHS was founded in 1990 by Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, a”h, together with a group of dedicated parents and the Rebbe’s brachah. The school began with fewer than ten students in classrooms at Congregation Bnei Ruven and, over the decades that followed, grew through several locations before returning to Bnei Ruven, where it had been housed for the past 16 years.

Today, LGHS has entered a new stage. The new Aaron & Clara Jolcover Lubavitch Girls High School building and student center are part of the Devorah Leah Campus, dedicated by the Walder Foundation in honor of Rebbetzin Devorah Leah of Vitebsk. As noted on the campus gate, the campus was created to inspire every girl who walks through its doors to learn deeply, live with purpose, and bring that strength into the world.

The campaign builds directly on that vision.

“Empower Every Girl to Shine” will support the daily experiences that shape each LGHS student, including high-level learning, meaningful support, dorm life filled with warmth and belonging, chesed initiatives that reach beyond the campus, and mentorship that helps each girl recognize her strengths and use them with confidence.

“This campaign is about the girls who fill these halls every day,” said Rabbi Hertz. “It is about giving each student the tools, guidance, and sense of purpose to grow into the person, the leader, and the light she is meant to become.”

Parents, staff, alumni, and community supporters are invited to join the campaign as ambassadors, creating fundraising teams and sharing the campaign with their own circles. Many of those who helped build the campus over the past two years are now stepping forward to help fill it with the learning, programs, support, and opportunities that will shape the next generation of LGHS students.

“When one girl is empowered to shine, her light does not stop with her,” said Rabbi Hertz. “She carries it into her friendships, her family, her community, and every life she will one day touch. She learns with depth. She leads with intention. And she helps light the way for the next generation.”

The campus has been built. Now LGHS is asking the community to fill it with light.

To learn more, donate, or create a fundraising team, click here

For alumni wishing to donate or recruit others to do so, a unique alumni page was created here