Rabbi Sholom Duchman is the director of Colel Chabad. The organization was founded in 1788 and is the oldest continuously operating charity in Israel.
The institution runs a network of soup kitchens and food banks, dental and medical clinics, daycare centers, widow and orphan support, and immigrant assistance programs. It also provides interest-free loans, camp scholarships, career training and job placement, subsidized weddings for the poor, and many other social-welfare projects.
Colel Chabad was founded by the first Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, and was headed by each Lubavitcher Rebbe thereafter. It is also known as the charity of Rabbi Meir Ba’al HaNes.
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The story Reb Sholom says about his father being a Shochet in Dublin Ireland. With the Frediker Rebbes request to send much needed meat to Eretz Yisroel isn’t known. Does anyone have any link or reference to this ???
In 1950, a group of shochtim began to travel from Paris to Ireland to produce kosher meat for Jews in Israel. After the first group left, another group arrived. Reb Zalman Shimon was appointed the Rav to supervise the whole operation.