New Shluchim to Arizona

By COLlive Staff

Rabbi Mendy and Sarah Rimler (nee Abramson) will be moving to Tempe, Arizona to join Rabbi Shmuel and Chana Tiechtel at the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center at ASU.

Arizona State University (ASU) is the largest public university in the US with over 74,000 students.

“The new Shluchim are crucial in our goal to reach many more of the 4,000 Jewish students at ASU,” said Rabbi Tiechtel, director of the Chabad Center at ASU. “No Jewish student should feel lost in the crowd,” he said.

Rabbi Mendy hails from Melbourne, Australia and Sarah is from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor is an archetypal college town that is home to the University of Michigan. Sarah is grateful for the opportunity to return to a college environment and connect with college students.

“I grew up a college town and my mother works for University of Michigan,” Sarah explains. She’s excited, she says, to move to Tempe and meet Jewish students.

Rabbi Rimler worked at Chabad at ASU for a full semester last year, where he assisted with social programs and Shabbat and holiday events in the Smetana Family Shul (Sanctuary).

“The atmosphere at Chabad with Rabbi Shmuel and Rabbi Mendy during that semester was incredibly powerful for me,” says Gabe Wood-Isenberg, an ASU alum who graduated this year.

The appointment was made by Rabbi Shmuel and Chana Tiechtel and Rabbi Zalman Levertov, Head Shliach of Arizona.

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