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Florida Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds visited Lubavitch Educational Center on Monday and met with fifty rabbis, community activists, and representatives of the South Florida Jewish community and its local Jewish schools.  The congressman was joined by his wife, Erika Donalds, who works for the US Secretary of Education, Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, and community activist Barbara Feingold. “As the largest Jewish school in the US outside New York, Congressman Donalds’s visit here is a powerful affirmation of …

Saul Dreier never got to finish his education in Krakow, Poland before the Nazis dragged him off to concentration camps. The sole survivor of his family, he rebuilt his life in Florida and even founded the Holocaust Survivor Band. But his Jewish education remained cut short. Saul’s stolen youth can never be returned. But a few years ago, the students of Miami’s Lubavitch Educational Center gave him a little back when they bestowed upon him the title of Honorary Student …

US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon paid a historic visit to Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami on Tuesday afternoon, just two weeks after taking office, speaking to over 400 of the school’s students and staff members and visiting some of the preschool classrooms. It was her first trip to a Jewish school. The visit began with a prayer for return of the hostages led by the boys Elementary School principal, Rabbi Moshe Stern, and a welcome by LEC’s Head of …

Over sixty principals, heads of schools, and administrators from across the US visited Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami and toured the school as part of a two-day kinus organized by the Menachem Education Foundation.  Escorted by LEC’s principals, participants visited classrooms and spoke with educators in the school’s twenty-eight boys classes in grades one through eight, where they learned about their systems, special programs, and educational philosophies. Following the tour was a special session featuring workshops by several LEC staff. …

In honor of the 70th birthday of LEC’s dear Morah Leah Barouk, of blessed memory, her family generously dedicated classroom 101 and named it “Morah Leah’s Classroom” in her honor. Morah Leah will forever be remembered as a longtime and beloved educator in LEC’s Preschool where she lovingly educated generations of students for over 30 years. What a beautiful and meaningful tribute! Thank you, Barouk and Steinberg Families! …

Alumni of Lubavitch Educational Center Salute Mrs. Shevi Sossonko Raizy Gersh Iskowitz now lives in Israel, but she flew to her once-hometown of Miami, Florida just to say thank you to her former teacher. “I joined Landow Yeshiva, now Lubavitch Educational Center, from public school at the end of 1995,” she remembers in a video shown at LEC’s Gala Dinner in February. Iskowitz says her home life was chaotic and unstable, her and her siblings ending up in various foster …

Alumni of Lubavitch Educational Center Salute Rabbi Yaakov Roth It was the 1970s and Mark Russo, five years old, had just moved to Miami. “Our family did not have much money,” he remembers, “and the only school that would accept me was Landow Yeshiva, now Lubavitch Educational Center.” The budding school was still in its infancy and most of the students were children from unaffiliated backgrounds. “No school would take them,” Russo says, “but Chabad never turns anyone away.” A …

Experience the present and future of South Florida’s Jewish girls in a spirited tour with Rabbi Korf and the staff and students of Lubavitch Educational Center When your institution is one of the largest Jewish schools in the US, you’re going to need multiple campuses to house all the students. Lubavitch Educational Center of Miami has four, with another currently under renovation. But with over 2,300 students enrolled from early childhood through Yeshiva Gedolah, and over 400 staff members to …

800 staff, parents, and supporters celebrate ‘A Beautiful Tomorrow’ at Miami’s Lubavitch Educational Center annual dinner  “It’s a great, big, beautiful tomorrow…” In the expansive ballroom of the Miami Beach Convention Center, over 800 people applauded the past, present and future of South Florida’s Jewish education at Lubavitch Educational Center’s gala dinner last week.  Beginning with remarks by Rabbi Leib Schapiro of Yeshiva Gedolah of Miami (est. 1973), and interspersed with performances by singers Shulem Lemmer and Shlomo Simcha, attendees …

Over 1,200 students of Lubavitch Educational Center’s Early Childhood and Boys Elementary and Middle Schools in Miami came together to produce an exciting new music video that puts an original tune to the pesukim that correspond to the first and last letters of the Rebbe’s name, which are traditionally recited at the conclusion of Shemoneh Esrei. Debuted at the LEC Dinner on February 25, the video follows a student who can’t remember the pesukim. Thankfully, his teacher (singer Shlomo Simcha) …