About
Welcome to Chabad Jewish Center of Prospect Heights, a popular center serving the Jewish needs of the Prospect Heights community and beyond. We invite you to explore our website and join our family; our mandate is to enhance the quality of Jewish life for the brownstone Brooklyn neighborhood residents, regardless of their affiliation, Jewish background or level of observance. Employing a wide range of creative and often-unorthodox methods to achieve our goals of strengthening the moral, social and spiritual fabric of Jewish family life, we at Chabad Prospect Heights, strive to help people find meaning, fulfillment, satisfaction & happiness. We hope you join our journey together.
The Center sits at the intersection of Prospect Heights, Park Slope, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill and serves as a center of Jewish activity in these communities.
Founded at the direction of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson, and under the guidance of Rabbi Ari Kirschenbaum, Chabad Prospect Heights is a spiritual guidepost and service center for the community to express their spiritual needs and gain inspiration in your everyday life making the ordinary, extraordinary. Chabad House is referred to as a “Community House of G-d” – a spiritual lighthouse from where holiness and G-dliness emanate to the entire community.
The Center offers all religious and spiritual services including rites of passage, momentous occasions, anniversaries, expressions of happy and sad moments, the celebration of traditional milestones, holidays and ceremonial relationships. The Center also awakens and helps to develop the spiritual inner-self of the person. Manifesting the concept that Jewishness or Judaism is not merely a religion but a way of life, the Center provides the language and the exercise program that fulfills the needs of the soul and strengthens it to function maximally in synergism with the body.
The Center is a meeting place for social, religious, educational, cultural, and family events and where people seek guidance and advice for whatever issues life presents. The Center is available and accessible to every single Jewish man, woman and child.
In addition to traditional synagogue services Chabad provides a treasure chest of opportunities for Jews of all ages and distinctions. The popular programs include: Adult Education Classes, highlighted by our popular Thursday night 1-on-1 study program; The Centers Youth Club, boasting a large number of activities from classes to social meetings and outings; The Young Leadership Committee, presenting many activities for singles including Shabbatons and gatherings; The Jewish Women’s Circle Club, Visitation program for the Elderly and other Senior Citizen programs; The Luria Academy, the first modern orthodox Montessori based day school in Brownstone Brooklyn, and much more!
Chabad Prospect Heights is a cornucopia of spiritual opportunities. It addresses every denomination of a person’s inner being including psychological, emotional, religious, social and personal. The Chabad House is where one can walk that significant bridge between where G-d speaks to man and man speaks to G-d. It re-prioritizes values, diminishing the unnecessary separations of economic class or otherwise fragmenting attitudes.
Under the spiritual guidance of Rabbi Ari Kirschenbaum, a well known and caring educator who believes that Torah must be experienced in the context of a modern, technologically advanced world. His approach is encouraged through his practical sermons and discussions known for their dynamic philosophical positions and Jewish mystical content.
The Center is based on the ideology of Chabad Lubavitch, which has at its foundation based on the encompassing mitzvah “to love every Jew as one loves himself” and to permeate that love with Acts of Kindness, good deeds, Torah Study and Prayer. Our Center is your home away from home, a gathering place where unity is paramount.