Rabbi Boruch Sholom Cunin, director of the Los Angeles-based Chabad-Lubavitch of the West Coast, set a lofty goal for the organization at its annual rabbinical conference last week.

The friend of movie stars and founder of the group’s annual Telethon called for the opening of 6 new Chabad centers within two months.

He set the cutoff date for the expansion as the 11th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan, the anniversary of the birth of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory. ...