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Jewish center celebrating highest of holy days

Chabad of SIU

Members of the Chabad of SIU write letters to Jewish prisoners. (Photo courtesy of Chabad of SIU)

 Courtesy of Chabad of SIU

CARBONDALE — It's a non-assuming two-story house on Carbondale's west side, but it symbolizes a modern-day movement to assemble and teach Jewish people in this corner of the world.

It's Southern Illinois' home base for the Chabad, an outreach for the Jewish community, led locally by Rabbi Mendel Scheiman, a 27-year-old native from the Chicago area. Ordained as a rabbi in 2010, Scheiman came to Carbondale a few years later to head up the Chabad, which was a new undertaking here. He relocated here from Brooklyn, where he had just finished rabbinical studies at the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in the Jewish Orthodox Hasidic neighborhood of Crown Heights in New York.

Chabad temple members make shofars during Rosh Hashana

During Rosh Hashana, the celebration of the Jewish new year, members of Chabad of SIU created shofars from ram’s horns.
Chabad temple members make shofars during Rosh Hashana

During Rosh Hashana, the celebration of the Jewish new year, members of Chabad of SIU created shofars from ram’s horns.

stephanie.esters@thesouthern.com

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