Rabbi Yitzchok and Nechamie Minkowicz, Shluchim of the Rebbe to Southwest Florida, held a Dedication Dinner for their new 11,000 square foot Jewish Community Center, home for Chabad and Maimonides Hebrew Day School, on their 3.5 acre campus.
The event was a huge success, with a gourmet dinner, a ribbon cutting ceremony, affixing of Mezuzot, a tour of the building and the unveiling of the Virtual 3D Dedication wall.
A special program in the New Shul began with a choir from the children of Maimonides Hebrew Day School and teachers Rivky Labkowski and Sheina Jacobson. The children sang beautiful songs and presented the school director and visionary Rebetzin Nechamie Minkowicz with each child giving her a Flower.
Rabbi Yitzchok and Nechamie Minkowicz spoke and shared with the crowd how he met a Jew that morning in Costco who told him that when he first met the Rabbi and Rebetzin 20 years ago he thought they were Jews for Christianity and started to cry how ignorant he was then and now he says the “The future of Judaism is Chabad.”
Rabbi Minkowicz thanked the donors and presented them with a gift of writing a New Torah and gave them the honor of writing in the first letters in the Torah with the help of the Shliach and Sofer Rabbi Yossi Srugo.
Dr. Daniel Dosoretz introduced Tray Radel who gave warm greetings and blessings to the donors and the community.
Dr. James Rubenstein introduced Rabbi Yossi Denburg from Coral Springs who spoke about Chabad staring from nothing and despite all the challenges Chabad continues to grow and is a huge positive force in the community.
The building donors as well as the community were invited to write letters in the Torah as well as special guests that flew in for the event – the Rabbi’s father Rabbi Leima Minkowicz who made the first flight out after hurricane Sandy hit New York, and a friend drove him to the airport as no one had gas for their vehicles, The Rabbi’s brother Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz, Shliach in Alpheretta, Georgia, and the Rabbi’s sister Mrs. Gitty Rosenfeld the Principal of the Online Shluchim School run by the Shluchim office.
Also in attendance were local Shluchim Rabbi Mendy and Luba Greenberg of Bonita Springs, Rabbi Yossi and Rivky Labkowski of Cape Coral and Rabbi Simon and Sheina Jacobson of Charlotte County, who were given the honor of writing letters in the new Torah.
I LOVE YOU!!!
from the whole chitrik sem
ARIBER!
hatzlocho raba!
I agree with number 7!
Luba and R’Mendy we are rooting for you!!
Love always your buddy up north!
looks beautiful and yummy too
i spy mendel yossi gershon and yankele and simon!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing shluchim!
Thank you so much for the beautiful shul that you built in “my backyard” … you really know how to make a new-comer to Ft Myers welcome! –Malka F.
BEAUTIFUL!! much nachas from the kids and your community!!
CHAYA MINKO IS DA BOMB! LOVE U SHLUCHA!! <3
Rabbi and Nechamie… goes to show what dedication, hard work and brachas from the Rebbe will accomplish. Amazing.
Bracha and hatzlacha to two creative visionaries.
What a team !!
Appreciate the Shlucha who’s dressed so tznius!!
Love the shluchim in fort myers
woohooo go chayalot best camp ever!! much success!!
Mazal Tov !!!!
YM from Germany
It is great to read another successful program / project / accomplishment in Fort Myers!!
Really awesome!
The new building looks gorgeous in the pictures!
luv u!!! luv ur friend from cali!
Rabbi Yitzchok & Nechamie are Great Shluchim & People we wish them Much Success!!!
Mazal Tov!!!