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Young Division Gradates!
To the beat of spirited music, twenty-two Pre-1A students proudly march to the stage in their gleaming white graduation caps and gowns, their parents, siblings, and grandparents beaming with nachas from the audience. It’s their siddur party, the culmination of years of Alef Beis and kriyah lessons. Each of the eight Pre-1A classes at Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami will celebrate and perform, one at a time, so all 160 graduates can be accorded due recognition. It’s a scene being …
Mesivta Lubavitch Miami

Mesivta Celebrates Year End Chag Hasiyum
An end-of-year event at the Miami Mesivta for fathers and sons celebrated siyumim on the mesechta learned in yeshiva and over 20 siyumim on extra mesechtos, and was enhanced by the Mesivta’s shiur alef nigunim orchestra. “It’s not easy to find the right yeshivah for your son,” said Rabbi Mayer Preger, father of a graduating bochur at Mesivta Lubavitch Miami, to the assembled crowd. He was speaking to the 82 bochurim and their fathers at their chag hasiyum event, marking another …
School News

Miami’s Lubavitch Educational Center Goes Into Contract for 4.5 Acre Expansion
When your institution is the largest Jewish school in the US outside the tri-state area, you’re going to need multiple campuses to house all the students. Lubavitch Educational Center has three, with two more currently under renovation. But with over 2,300 students enrolled from early childhood through Yeshiva Gedolah for the upcoming school year, and over 400 staff members to lead them, even these five aren’t enough. “We’re bursting at the seams,” says Head of School Rabbi Benjy Korf. “Every …
Girls Middle School

Hydraulic Arms and Electric Ice Cream Scooper Highlight LEC’s Invention Fair
The hum of whirrs and beeps made for the perfect background track to the invention fair at Lubavitch Educational Center’s Girls Middle School in Miami. The alarm of a fingerprint-locked purse set off with a wrong try, a three-foot-tall robot rolled down the red carpet, and a drone with dizzying colored beams took off in the air. It was hard to believe that the inventors of these gadgets were only in sixth grade. “Our young inventors have captivated us with …
Girls Middle School

Girls Schools Print Tanya
Lubavitch Educational Center’s Girls Schools in Miami, Florida, gathered to print a Tanya on their campus in honor of Chof Daled Teves, yartzeit of the Alter Rebbe. “This is a momentous occasion,” said Head of School Rabbi Benzion Korf. “We are celebrating Chassidus and what it brought to the world. Our school doesn’t just teach Chassidus, it’s the foundation of our lives.” He expounded on the hayom yom of the day, where the goal of Chassidus is outlined as bringing energy …
School News

New Torah Honors Memory of LEC Student
In the summer of 5782, the LEC community went into shock and mourning over the untimely passing of three-year-old Sholom Tauber, a beloved student, son of longtime educators at our school. Sholom’s tragic passing touched us all deeply.Two years later, on Yud Beis Elul, we joyfully celebrated Sholom’s life and legacy by completing a new sefer Torah in his memory, in a beautiful siyum and hachnasas sefer Torah hosted by the Tauber family. Surrounded by family and community, the last …