This past Shabbos the Chai West Island teens had a very inspiring and exciting weekend up north.
Motzei Shabbos the teenagers from The Wild West hit the slopes, night skiing and snowboarding down the mountains in the beautiful Laurentian Mountains.
The Chai West is a Chabad House located in Dollard Des Ormeaux, which is a suburb off the Island of Montreal. Dovid Lazar and his wife Sara open their home to the Jewish public school teens in the West Island. The Lazars have over 30-40 students every Friday night for Shabbos meals which last until 3 am.
The Chai West also has their yearly New York Shabbaton in Crown Heights. This past November Canada’s Chai West Teens and Shmuli Nachlas’ CYN teens joined forces for a Motzei Shabbos program.
The Chai West Center has been making a powerful impact on the Jewish teenagers from Dollard-Des-Ormeaux in the West Island. The Chai West is a branch of the Montreal Chai Center run by Rabbi Naftali Perlstein and Rabbi Yossi Kessler.
Special thanks to Eda and David (Daveed) Schottenstein for supporting Chai West Chabad House so it can continue to do the Rebbe’s shlichus for the hundreds of teens in the West Island Community.
Amazing Shluchim doing the Rebbes work. You guys are unbelievable!
Its about time David Lazzar posted some pics on COLIVE. That’s what we like to see….the “Rocking Rabbi” in action!!!
LAZARE’S ROCK!!!
I was at Lazar’s on Friday night and saw 37 teenagers in their “open house”. One of them said he is in public school and never had jewish friends. He did not expect his first real Jewish friend to be a “father of 3”. Many of them never experienced “Shabbos” before. Now several of these teenagers went to learn in Machon Chana , Yeshiva in Morristown and Mayanot in Eretz Yisroel and became or are becoming frum. Keep up your amazing work Lazars
Thank you so much to David and Eda Schottenstein for making it possible for Chai West ‘s Dovid and Sara Lazar to do this great work with unaffiliated teenagers.
Thank you for helping so many Shluchim to do their great work.
They need a lot of energy and drive and your partnership to be able to do what they do. May Hashem give you and them strenght to continue.
It is incredible to see these kids who are so far from “Yiddishkeit” enjoying the Shabbaton. For many it is propably the first “real Shabbos” Keep up the amazing shluchos work!