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Miami’s Lubavitch Educational Center launched the new school year welcoming 2,500 students into six buildings across five campuses, including two newly acquired facilities, marking a major milestone in the institution’s rapid growth. “With Hashem’s help and the Rebbe’s brochos, we had a successful first day of school across all eleven divisions—from our infants in Early Stages to our bochurim in Yeshiva Gedolah,” says Rabbi Benjy Korf, Head of School. The expansion includes a new Mesivta campus in Miami Gardens and …

The teacher who saved a child’s life, raising a child with the 12 Pesukim, the ribbon cutting of the new Mesivta Lubavitch Miami Campus, raising children in the digital age—read about our incredible school in the SPECIAL 40-PAGE EDITION of the Community Magazine! …

Mazel tov to the 60 graduates of our Girls Middle School! …

Mazel tov to our 60 Beis Chana High School graduates! …

Mazel tov to our record-breaking group of 90 graduates of our Boys Middle School! …

Mazel tov to our Pre-1A students who got their first siddur this year! …

Mazel tov to the FIRST graduating class of Klurman Yeshivah High School! This group of incredible bochurim are the pioneering class of the newest division of LEC. They took the leap, and tested the waters for the new boys high school. Guided by a staff of dedicated educators, they proved the importance of KYHS to our community. They spent the last four years truly growing and developing spiritually, academically, and socially—individually and as a whole—to become the men they are …

When Rabbi Avrohom and Rebbetzin Rivkah Korf came to Florida in 1960, the state was a spiritual desert. Tasked by the Rebbe to transform the Sunshine State into Yerushalayim of Golus, the Korfs got right to work, pioneering a revolution that sixty years later is dynamically growing at a meteoric pace. “Rabbi Korf was a soldier, a leader, a living example,” says Rabbi Alex Kaller, of Chabad Russian Center in Sunny Isles Beach. “In a gentle way, he directed and …

We usually think influence moves in one direction: teachers teach and students follow. But every once in a while something different happens. A student becomes a teacher, and the direction of influence quietly shifts. Hear the incredible stories of LEC fourth grade teacher Mr. Yakov Zabryn and student Eldad Shay, who were each inspired to grow in their Yiddishkeit by their fellow students and teachers and now share it with others. Produced and directed by Rabbi Yakov GarfinkelCinematography by Dov …

Hundreds of happy students and supporters of Mesivta Lubavitch Miami gathered earlier this month to cut the ribbon on the yeshiva’s brand new, 3-acre, $10 million campus! Centrally located in Miami Gardens, just minutes away from Lubavitch Educational Center’s boys and girls schools, the new facility will provide much-needed space for the rapidly growing Mesivta to thrive.  “Our mesivta has seen tremendous growth since LEC first purchased the property five years ago,” says Rabbi Motti Schurder, menahel. “This year we …

Decked in sparkling crowns, faces lit up with ebullient smiles, 170 first graders embarked on a lifelong journey of reading, translating and learning our holy Torah from inside the timeless text. In separate events for boys and girls with their families, the children performed for their beaming parents, joyfully accepted their very own Chumash, and got to peek inside a Torah to see the small alef in the possuk of Vayikra, traditionally the first possuk learned in school. May our …

Decked in sparkling crowns, faces lit up with ebullient smiles, 170 first graders embarked on a lifelong journey of reading, translating and learning our holy Torah from inside the timeless text. In separate events for boys and girls with their families, the children performed for their beaming parents, joyfully accepted their very own Chumash, and got to peek inside a Torah to see the small alef in the possuk of Vayikra, traditionally the first possuk learned in school. May our …