By Jeanette Friedman – Chabad.org
About an hour south of Cancun and an hour north of Tulum, Mexico – smack in the middle of the Riviera Maya – sits the scuba-diving haven of Playa del Carmen. With an infusion of capital and visitors, the once-sleepy fishing village is undergoing a rapid transformation into a tourist’s paradise.
Smack in the middle of such an unlikely hub of religious life sits the new Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center, established just last month by Rabbi Mendel and Chaya Goldberg, a young couple who themselves discovered the Playa in 2008 on a visit to assist Rabbi Mendel and Rochel Druk at the Chabad Center in Cancun.
The Goldbergs were appointed to their position by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of Chabad-Lubavitch, and Mendel Druk, director of Chabad-Lubavitch activities in the Riviera Maya and Mexican Carribean. Druk visited Playa weekly for three years, and more recently, the community felt the need to have a permanent rabbi.
From their new home, the Goldbergs will run prayer services and holiday programs, Torah classes and elaborate meals.
mendel and chaya a lot of hatslocho!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a yesher koach! finaly moved! it was time
technicaly you should have alot of hatslocho… 😉
Bais Rivka Seniors MISS MISS MISS Mrs. Goldberg’s classes! WE WANT YOU BACK!!! You were the best!!
Mazal Tov
Et c’est sur que vous aurez de la atzlah’a
Encor Chazak pour le réconfort et soutien apporté lors de la Brit milah du petit Menachem Mendel Djian à Crown Heights.
Famille Djian.
theyve got a cute lil kid!
WE MISS OUR BAKING TEACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAZEL TOV MENDEL!!! Nous sommes tres fiers, et que le Rebbe vous bentch de toutes Ses brochos pour que tout soit facile et comme Il le souhaite… Hatzlocho rabbo!
Hey chaya! great to c u doing amazing things! remember chaya squared???
May you be a keli of brochos as the rebbe’s shliach.
Wow, thats awesome! Playa is sooo lucky to have your guys for shluchim! Shluchei Adoneinu….
You should have a lot of Hatzlocho begu”r (and we reserve a place for the upcoming winter break!! 🙂
hatzlocho rabboh mendel and chaya , BEGUR. we love you and will miss you. give regards to shneur biton
much much much atslocho in this oly mision. The Rebbe is proud of you!
Yay Goldbergs!!!
The Rebbe is proud of you both!! You will change lives there…!!!
We wish you hatzlocha rabo and hope to visit you often!
http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1335326/jewish/Playing-and-Praying-in-Playa-del-Carmen.htm
Dear Mendel and Chaya,
Wishing you great luck for this new start in your life! I am sure and confident you will have a lot of success in a revealed manner!
Keep up your positive attitude and contagious enthusiasm!
We are very proud of you!!!!
we in vanocuver are very proud of you + we have a new place to go on vacation
Chabad of cancun rocks, playa del carmen is such beautiful city
Lots of Luck!! You guys are gonna be great Shluchim!!!
great work and may you be a light upon cancun!!!!!!
sukah mobile!!
much hatzlacha!!! its a plus to do shlichus in such a nice place!!!
mendel on esr fier de toi!!!
good luck guys,
medel chaya sarahle and chana we love you!!!!
hatslacho on ur shlichus,
the rebbe is proud of you,
and we are too……….