Rabbi Greenberg

Rabbi Chaim Greenberg was educated in Lubavitch yeshivos in Israel and in 770.

1990-91 He was the director of the organizational office of the Machane Yisroel Development Fund (MIDF) Brooklyn, NY which was under the auspices of Machane Yisroel.

1992-99 He founded and directed Merkaz Gutnick, a project of absorption of new immigrants from the USSR in Israel, with it’s center in Jerusalem, as well as a yeshiva and kollel for Russian immigrants.

1999-2002 Director of the Vocational School in Kfar Chabad, and founder of the Beis-HaMidrash L’Shlichus V’Rabbanus and the ToraTec Yeshiva - both in Kfar Chabad.

From 1994 on, he initiated and founded in Beitar Ellit: the Chabad-Center, the Chabad Cheider, as well as the Charity Foundation for the Needy of the Chabad community there (numbering approx. 400 families), and serves as the chairman of all three.

2003 Rabbi Greenberg founded the Chassidic Rabbinical College (CRC) in Jerusalem according to the spirit of the Rebbe’s letter of 20th Kislev 5712, in which the Rebbe recomends the proper way to combine limudei kodesh with the study of a profession. The vision of the CRC is to be of the highest caliber and professionalism, offering instruction in the most lucrative professions combined with hasmacha l’rabbanus. At the same time, CRC meets the highest standards in terms of campus facilities and meals - something unparalleled by any other mossad worldwide. The staff, students, and facilites all contribute to the goals that the institution has set for itself, as part of CRC’s effort to help its students develop into personally responsible individuals capable of contributing positively to their respective communities.

In the year 2007, in a joint project of the Shluchim Office and the CRC, the new program of Meorot Chabad was founded. The program is setting its objective to cater the needs of Chabad-affiliated youngsters, who are the graduates of different Yeshivah - high schools, who are coming for a year of learning in Israel before they proceed to their college studies. The program offers advanced Jewish studies – Halacha for life, Talmud and Chassidut all in the spirit and tradition of the institute – personal development, warm and listening staff with professionalism in all – from to the learning to the facilities.

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