New Shluchim to Establish a Permanent Chabad Center in Slovenia
Rabbi Yossi and Rochele Krinsky are preparing to make Slovenia their home, bringing a permanent Chabad presence to the Central European country and strengthening Yiddishe life in Ljubljana • Full Story, Photo
A summer gathering that drew far more people than expected helped reveal the need for a permanent Chabad center in Slovenia. Now, Rabbi Yossi and Rochele Krinsky are preparing to settle there and serve its Jewish community.
Until now, Rabbi Ariel Haddad of Chabad of Trieste, Italy, has traveled across the border several times a year to help meet the community’s needs. Resident shluchim will give local Yidden a year-round address for Jewish life.
The Krinskys visited Slovenia during the summer and organized a barbecue in the capital, Ljubljana. They expected about 15 participants. Some 60 people came instead.
Rosh Hashanah programs brought another strong response. Among those who attended were Israelis who had not realized how many fellow Yidden lived nearby. The interest encouraged the couple to move ahead with plans for a Chabad center.
Both grew up on shlichus in Europe: Rabbi Yossi Krinsky in Lithuania and Rochele Krinsky in Sweden. They now plan to bring that experience to a country whose Jewish population numbers in the low hundreds.
Slovenia has a long Jewish history. Rabbi Yisrael Isserlin, the Terumas HaDeshen, lived for a time in Maribor. After the upheavals of the twentieth century, the community began to recover following the fall of Communism and Slovenia’s independence in 1991.
The new shlichus opens another opportunity to connect with local Jews, Israelis and visitors, and to build regular Torah learning, mitzvos and community life.
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