119-year-old Drexel University, alma mater of such technology legends as Internet founding father Paul Baran and barcode co-creator Norman Joseph Woodland, is slowly climbing the ladder of prestige once more.
The Philadelphia-based school, among America’s 20 largest private universities, has been steadily climbing the college-rankings charts in the past ten years.
But Drexel will soon be boasting something offered by an ever-increasing number of campuses nationwide and even worldwide: a Chabad outreach center.
The Jewish outreach organization will be establishing a full-time campus program for Jewish students at Drexel beginning this Chanuka. Until now, the school’s Jewish body had been serviced part-time by the nearby Lubavitch House at the University of Pennsylvania.
The young couple currently gearing up for their permanent career move to the Keystone State, Rabbi Chaim and Moussia Goldstein, themselves grew up in Chabad outreach families–he in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where parents Rabbi and Mrs Aharon Goldstein have run one of the movement’s first-ever campus Chabad centers since 1975, and she in El Paso, Texas, where her parents Rabbi and Mrs. Yisrael Greenberg have opened the Chabad Center to the border town’s Jewish population since 1986.
“It only makes sense to go back to campus,” says Chaim, 25, who recalls accompanying his father at University of Michigan outreach efforts from age seven. “I grew up in a home that was very giving,” Moussia, 22, adds, “and I want to give to others–also, seeing the effect Chabad had on my friends from El Paso on campus when they came back from college made me want to do Chabad on campus work.”
The Goldsteins were recruited by Rabbi Schmidt.
For more information and for support opportunities regarding Chabad at Drexel University, please visit ChaiForChabad.com or contact Rabbi Chaim Goldstein at [email protected] or 734-678-7088.
MAZEL TOV CHAIM!!!
Hatzlachah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kol Hakavod!
Hatzlocha rabba on your shlichus
As you embark on this shlichus with the koach of the meshaleach may you have all the brachos that you need both b’gshmiyus u’vbruchniyus!
u ar cmg
love chani zwiebel.
Very nice
Wishing you and your wife much success in your Shlichus!!
Schneur G
Hi Chaim,
It’s me, Menachem Mendel, and my family, wishing you and your wife mazel tov and hatzlocha rabba on your shlichus. MaMeSh AKA Achdus Allstars bunk member
From all your many friends and fans in Atlanta!
were gonna miss u!!!
drexel is so lucky they are getting such an amazing, awesome couple!!!
Gluk in ur shlichus!
Go Chaim and Moussia proud of you!!.. Good luck with everything!!
how lucky they are to have Chaim!!He was and is the most “ibergegebener ” people out there!!with a heart of gold:)!
looking forward to our new neighbors! philly’s the best
Drexel is the luckiest college to get Chaim and Moussia, they are going to rock the place.Best of luck 🙂
YOUR THE BEST TEACHER IN THE WHOLE WORLD
moussias cool
cute couple. cheers 4 doing the rebbe work
Good luck and you two will rock there!
I second that!
GO CHAIM AND MOUSSIA!!