Chabad Summer Programs Defy War

August 13, 2006
The month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon has failed to derail Chabad-Lubavitch summer programs. The month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon has failed to derail Chabad-Lubavitch summer programs. According to organizers, camp venues for northern locations have been shifted to the country's interior, but activities have not been disturbed.

In Safed, for instance, the local Chabad community's summer camp for 140 children was relocated from the Kfar Sitrin campus at the southern entrance to Haifa to a yeshiva in Kfar Chabad, not far from Ben Gurion Airport.

At least one northern camp, though, has not moved. A summer yeshiva based in Tel Aviv for 60 Chabad students from across the country opened as scheduled in the city of Netanya, which has frequently been targeted in Katyusha attacks.

Camps operated by the Chabad-Lubavitch Youth Organization throughout the rest of the country are also operating normally, with minor changes. A camp for Kfar Chabad's 200 fifth to eighth graders opened as planned on the outskirts of Ramat Gan, albeit a day late to accommodate families from the north who found shelter in Givat Shmuel.