Judge Tours Detroit Campus

By COLlive reporter

Federal judge Avern Cohn for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan paid a private visit Tuesday to witness the growth of Chabad institutions in The Great Lakes State.

A long-time community leader and founding supporter of Lubavitch Foundation of Michigan, his honor toured the construction site of the Harry and Wanda Zekelman Campus, one of the largest private school construction projects currently underway in the state.

The 4-acre campus will be home to two 25,000-square-foot buildings housing state-of-the-art classroom facilities and a dormitory for out-of-town students of the Lubavitch Mesivta and Yeshiva of Detroit.

Welcoming him were Head Shliach Rabbi Berel Shemtov and Rabbi Mendel Stein, Development Director for the Lubavitch Mesivta and Yeshiva directed by his father Rabbi Bentzion Stein.

Judge Cohn, a past President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, was especially proud when he saw the progress.

When Rabbi Shemtov was sent by the Rebbe on Shlichus 54 years ago, one of the first people he met was Judge Cohn’s parents Irwin and Sadie Levin Cohn who immediately agreed to support Chabad’s educational and outreach efforts.

“I never dreamed that this would be happening,” the Judge, clearly impressed, commented after hearing about the many graduates who today serve as rabbis and teachers in Jewish communities around the world.

For more info, visit zekelmancampus.com and lubavitchyeshiva.org