Dinner Fundraiser Held for New Springfield Building



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    Dinner Fundraiser Held for New Springfield Building

    Photos by Shimi Hershkop for Chabadinfo

    On Tuesday night, Yud Shvat at the Eshel Building in Crown Heights, a dinner by Chabad of Springfield, IL, directed by Rabbi Mendy Turen, took place to kick start the fundraise for 1.5 million dollars for the new Chabad House with the facade 770 • Full Story, Photos

    By Chabadinfo Reporter

    On Tuesday night, Yud Shvat, at the Eshel Building in Crown Heights, a dinner by Chabad of Springfield, IL, directed by Rabbi Mendy Turen, took place to kick start the fundraise for the 1.5 million dollars needed for the new Chabad House, with the facade 770.

    At the event, the Shliach, Rabbi Mendy Turen spoke about the new building, followed by his Father Rabbi Eli Turen of Chicago, and Rabbi Pesach Sheiner of Boulder, Colorado.

    At the event Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati, spoke of the importance of the project and the Chabad House.

    Rabbi Adam Nesenoff of Boca Raton, Florida, rallied the crowd to task, together they reached a quarter of a million dollars!

    “This is part of our tremendous revolution in Springfield, and Be’ezras Hashem, we will manage to raise the entire amount of up to one and a half million dollars.

    “The plan for the building is to have a Jewish center where Judaism is alive. It’s going to be a little bit of a different setup than a traditional synagogue as we know it. Chabad is famous for not being a traditional shul,” Rabbi Mendy Turen told Chabadinfo.

    Springfield’s Chabad Center, which currently is located at 2467 S. MacArthur Blvd. in the Town and Country Shopping Center, will move to the new location in April, he added.

    The first floor of the new building will include a Shul and other amenities highlighting Springfield’s Jewish heritage. Some ideas being contemplated are to have a museum highlighting Jewish culture and a kosher market. The upper two stories will be office space that the center will lease out. A current tenant is the Springfield Jewish Federation, which Rabbi Turen said he hopes continues to rent.

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