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| CTeen is the teen-focused arm of the ] movement, operated by '''Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch''' which has over 100,000 members worldwide<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-school-shooting-survivors-seek-healing-at-new-york-meet-up/</ref> with 600 chapters in thirty seven countries,<ref>www.cteen.com</ref> and has been called “the fastest growing and most diverse Jewish youth organization in the world”<ref>https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2018/03/30/features/orlando-well-represented-at-international-cteen-shabbaton/9544.html</ref>. Cteen was launched by Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky of Merkos Suite 302 in 2010<ref>http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/in-just-five-years-cteen-movement-attracts-tens-of-thousands-of-young-jews/</ref> and operates all over the world in cities like Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Leeds, Munich, Buenos Aires and New York.<ref>name="israelnationalnews.com">https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/232778</ref> Cteen is open to all Jewish teens regardless of affiliation.<ref>https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2018/03/30/features/orlando-well-represented-at-international-cteen-shabbaton/9544.html</ref> | |||
| ==Programs== | |||
| Cteen’s various programs include: | |||
| *Suicide Alert workshop, which aims to to equip teens for assisting their peers dealing with anxiety and depression during COVID-19. These workshops have been organized by Cteen chapters in Florida, New Hampshire and New Jersey, among others, in partnership with the Gelt Charitable Foundation.<ref>https://www.unionleader.com/news/safety/suicide-alert-workshop-offered-for-teens/article_70cc2bc7-1b27-5e3b-8771-3123b8a7f0d3.html</ref> <ref>https://www.livingworks.net/blog/by-us-for-us</ref> <ref>https://www.tapinto.net/towns/berkeley-heights/events/suicide-prevention-training-workshop</ref> <ref>https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20190801/chabad-of-sarasota-manatee-presents-speak-up-save-life</ref> | |||
| *Cteen XTREME, a summer travel camp where campers challenge themselves both physically and spiritually by partaking in extreme sports, observing a completely tech-free Shabbat, and keeping kosher on the road. <ref>https://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/2015/02/chabad_of_hunterdon_teen_group_makes_impact_in_com.html</ref> | |||
| *Heritage Quest, which aims to deepen the connection of Jewish teens to their heritage through educational trips to ] and ], offering teens the chance to explore their roots at the source. <ref>https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/3239262/jewish/CTeen-Summer-Quest-to-Explore-Roots-in-Poland-and-Israel.htm</ref> <ref>https://www.lubavitch.com/leading-voices/</ref> | |||
| *Kosher Food Club, a co-curricular high school club facilitated by CTeen chapters and operating in over fifty high schools throughout the ], serves as a humanitarian initiative by promoting healthy lifestyles and feeding the homeless, as well as providing educational and hands-on experiences of traditional Jewish foods. <ref>https://www.cteen.com/highschoolclub</ref> <ref>https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/5144558/jewish/Jewish-Teens-in-Skokie-Ill-Respond-to-Hate-With-Celebration.htm</ref> | |||
| *Cteen International Shabbaton is an annual inspirational weekend bringing together thousands of teens from around the world. The program includes a traditional Shabbat experience in the heart of Hasidic Crown Heights,; a Torah completion ceremony in Times Square; and the CTeen Choice Awards at Brooklyn's Pier 12. The jam-packed weekend includes a Saturday night concert in Times Square with guest performances by singers like ], ] and American Hasidic rapper ].<ref>https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2018/03/30/features/orlando-well-represented-at-international-cteen-shabbaton/9544.html</ref><ref>https://www.jewishvoicesnj.org/articles/local-teens-have-time-of-their-lives-at-nyc-shabbaton/</ref> | |||
| *National Campus Office — coordinator of ], a network of Jewish Student Centers on more than 230 university campuses worldwide (as of April 2016), as well as regional Chabad-Lubavitch centers at an additional 150 universities worldwide<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=674 |title=The National Campus Office |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> | |||
| <ref>web|url=https://www.ncfje.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/502823/jewish/About-NCFJE.htm|title=About NCFJE|access-date=16 December 2018|publisher=NCFJE}}</ref> | |||
| *] — coordinator of Chabad's worldwide '']'' program<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=651 |title=The Shluchim Office |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> | |||
| ==Roving Rabbis== | |||
| One of the best known divisions is the Merkos Shlichus campaign, which dispatches pairs of young rabbinical students, colloquially known as '''Roving Rabbis''', to small and isolated Jewish communities around the world. Hundreds of rabbinical students participate in Passover and summer visitation programs, building Jewish awareness and spreading Torah knowledge.<ref name="diego">{{cite web |url=http://sdjewishjournal.com/site/1136/special-delivery/ |title=Special Delivery |last=Berman |first=Alanna |date=September 2010 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.jrn.columbia.edu/site/coveringreligion/2009/05/04/the-search-for-jews-in-ireland/ |title=The Search for Jews in Ireland |last=Donath |first=Mirjam |date=4 May 2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=Beyond the Brogue |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090827061945/http://blog.jrn.columbia.edu/site/coveringreligion/2009/05/04/the-search-for-jews-in-ireland/ |archive-date=27 August 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.albertalocalnews.com/reddeeradvocate/news/Judaism_in_a_suitcase_52073052.html?period=W&mpStartDate=08-14-2010& |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723062951/http://www.albertalocalnews.com/reddeeradvocate/news/Judaism_in_a_suitcase_52073052.html?period=W&mpStartDate=08-14-2010& |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 July 2012 |title=Judaism in a Suitcase |last=Tester |first=Laura |date=30 July 2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=] }}</ref> To date, the program has sent students to more than 150 countries.<ref name="chabad">{{cite web |url=http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/706006/jewish/About-Merkos-Shlichus.htm |title=About the Student Summer Visitation Program |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=chabad.org}}</ref> | |||
| The Rabbinical Student Visitation Program began in 1943, when Rabbi Schneerson dispatched the first pairs of students to ten cities in ]. Cities in ] were added to the program in 1944, as were cities in the ] in 1945. By 1948, the summer program numbered 20 students and 100 American cities. Students were also sent to Jewish farmers residing throughout the ], many of whom were European immigrants. The students were sent in pairs, usually one American student and one European-immigrant student.<ref name="chabad"/> | |||
| In the early 1950s, the Rebbe added international destinations to the summer program, personally consulting maps and planning the itineraries.<ref name="chabad"/> | |||
| Currently, 400 Roving Rabbis participate in the annual summer program. They distribute thousands of ], other religious articles such as ] and ] food, and tens of thousands of Jewish information packets each year.<ref name="chabad"/> | |||
| The students interact with both individuals and families. They often go door to door, teaching women how to light ] and showing men how to put on ] for the first time. They speak about Jewish education, answer questions, and give ] lessons.<ref name="diego"/> | |||
| Their visits are often anticipated by the local population. On their 2010 swing through the islands of ], ] and ], for example, the two Roving Rabbis were summoned to the office of Aruba Prime Minister ], who is Jewish. Eman spoke with them about Jewish heritage, listened as they blew the ] (it was the Hebrew month of ], when the shofar is blown daily in ]s), and donned a pair of tefillin. After completing their visit to the islands, the students returned to the Prime Minister's office so he could put on tefillin again, and he asked them to arrange for him to have his own pair of tefillin.<ref name="prime">Marks, Yehudah. ''Jewish Prime Minister of Aruba Orders Pair of Tefillin''. ], World News, 2 September 2010, p. B42.</ref> | |||
| The Roving Rabbis share their experiences and communicate with each other on their own blog site.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chabad.org/blogs/rovingrabbis.htm |title=Roving Rabbis blog |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center}}</ref> | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| * ] | |||
| ==References== | |||
| {{Reflist}} | |||
| == External links == | |||
| * | |||
| ==Organizational structure== | |||
| ] | |||
| Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch has these divisions: | |||
| *] — home to 250,000 books and over 100,000 letters, artifacts and pictures<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=677 |title=Central Chabad Lubavitch Library |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> Its director is Rabbi Shalom Dovber Levine.<ref>https://www.chabad.org/centers/default_cdo/aid/117986/jewish/Library-of-Agudas-Chasidei-Chabad.htm</ref> | |||
| *] — an online repository of Jewish knowledge and information that attracts one million users per year<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=675 |title=Chabad.org |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> | |||
| *Jewish Educational Media (JEM) — the broadcast and film production division of the Lubavitch movement, founded in 1980<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=676 |title=Jewish Educational Media |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> | |||
| *] — provider of adult-education courses in hundreds of cities worldwide<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jlicentral.com/dc.php?ID=10 |title=About Us |date=2010 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=jlicentral.com}}</ref> | |||
| *] (Jnet) — a telephone study-partner program begun in 2005<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=678 |title=The Jewish Learning Network |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> | |||
| *] and Merkos Publications — were established in 1942, these publishing divisions have produced more than 100 million volumes in a dozen languages<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=655 |title=Kehot Publication Society |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> | |||
| *Merkos Shlichus — is a rabbinical student visitation program, which sends hundreds of "Roving Rabbis" to strengthen the jewish awareness in jewish communities worldwide<ref name="chabad"/> | |||
| * — Program development to support ] and their communities, such as CKids and . Merkos 302 also provides leadership training and workshops for emissaries new to directing Cteen chapters around the world, as well as incubating programs like ''Chabad Young Ambassadors'', a global network of activists seeking to grow their local Jewish young-adult communities.<ref> name="israelnationalnews.com">https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/232778</ref> <ref>https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it/</ref> Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky serves as executive director. | |||
| *CTeen — is the teen arm of the ] movement and has 100,000 members worldwide.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-school-shooting-survivors-seek-healing-at-new-york-meet-up/</ref> Its president is Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky<ref>https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/nothing-political-about-child-safety/</ref> who also serves as the executive director of Merkos Suite 302, which launched Cteen in 2010.<ref>http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/in-just-five-years-cteen-movement-attracts-tens-of-thousands-of-young-jews/</ref> As of mid-2017, Cteen had operating chapters all around the world in cities as diverse as France, Rio de Janeiro, Leeds, Munich, Buenos Aires and New York.<ref name="israelnationalnews.com">https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/232778</ref> | |||
| *National Campus Office — coordinator of ], a network of Jewish Student Centers on more than 230 university campuses worldwide (as of April 2016), as well as regional Chabad-Lubavitch centers at an additional 150 universities worldwide<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=674 |title=The National Campus Office |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> | |||
| *National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education — is a charity that educates Jewish children in the United States. It was founded in 1940 by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=682 |title=The National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncfje.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/502823/jewish/About-NCFJE.htm|title=About NCFJE|access-date=16 December 2018|publisher=NCFJE}}</ref> | |||
| *Office of Education (Chabad) — a guidance, training and service center for administrators, educators, students and parents of Chabad-Lubavitch educational institutions<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=652 |title=The Office of Education |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> | |||
| *Shluchim Exchange — an online service founded in 2005 to facilitate communication among over 1,500 Chabad ''shluchim''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=683 |title=The Shluchim Exchange |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> | |||
| *] — coordinator of Chabad's worldwide '']'' program<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/department.html?h=651 |title=The Shluchim Office |date=2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=lubavitch.com}}</ref> | |||
| ==Roving Rabbis== | |||
| One of the best known divisions is the Merkos Shlichus campaign, which dispatches pairs of young rabbinical students, colloquially known as '''Roving Rabbis''', to small and isolated Jewish communities around the world. Hundreds of rabbinical students participate in Passover and summer visitation programs, building Jewish awareness and spreading Torah knowledge.<ref name="diego">{{cite web |url=http://sdjewishjournal.com/site/1136/special-delivery/ |title=Special Delivery |last=Berman |first=Alanna |date=September 2010 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.jrn.columbia.edu/site/coveringreligion/2009/05/04/the-search-for-jews-in-ireland/ |title=The Search for Jews in Ireland |last=Donath |first=Mirjam |date=4 May 2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=Beyond the Brogue |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090827061945/http://blog.jrn.columbia.edu/site/coveringreligion/2009/05/04/the-search-for-jews-in-ireland/ |archive-date=27 August 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.albertalocalnews.com/reddeeradvocate/news/Judaism_in_a_suitcase_52073052.html?period=W&mpStartDate=08-14-2010& |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723062951/http://www.albertalocalnews.com/reddeeradvocate/news/Judaism_in_a_suitcase_52073052.html?period=W&mpStartDate=08-14-2010& |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 July 2012 |title=Judaism in a Suitcase |last=Tester |first=Laura |date=30 July 2009 |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=] }}</ref> To date, the program has sent students to more than 150 countries.<ref name="chabad">{{cite web |url=http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/706006/jewish/About-Merkos-Shlichus.htm |title=About the Student Summer Visitation Program |access-date=25 September 2010 |publisher=chabad.org}}</ref> | |||
| The Rabbinical Student Visitation Program began in 1943, when Rabbi Schneerson dispatched the first pairs of students to ten cities in ]. Cities in ] were added to the program in 1944, as were cities in the ] in 1945. By 1948, the summer program numbered 20 students and 100 American cities. Students were also sent to Jewish farmers residing throughout the ], many of whom were European immigrants. The students were sent in pairs, usually one American student and one European-immigrant student.<ref name="chabad"/> | |||
| In the early 1950s, the Rebbe added international destinations to the summer program, personally consulting maps and planning the itineraries.<ref name="chabad"/> | |||
| Currently, 400 Roving Rabbis participate in the annual summer program. They distribute thousands of ], other religious articles such as ] and ] food, and tens of thousands of Jewish information packets each year.<ref name="chabad"/> | |||
| The students interact with both individuals and families. They often go door to door, teaching women how to light ] and showing men how to put on ] for the first time. They speak about Jewish education, answer questions, and give ] lessons.<ref name="diego"/> | |||
| Their visits are often anticipated by the local population. On their 2010 swing through the islands of ], ] and ], for example, the two Roving Rabbis were summoned to the office of Aruba Prime Minister ], who is Jewish. Eman spoke with them about Jewish heritage, listened as they blew the ] (it was the Hebrew month of ], when the shofar is blown daily in ]s), and donned a pair of tefillin. After completing their visit to the islands, the students returned to the Prime Minister's office so he could put on tefillin again, and he asked them to arrange for him to have his own pair of tefillin.<ref name="prime">Marks, Yehudah. ''Jewish Prime Minister of Aruba Orders Pair of Tefillin''. ], World News, 2 September 2010, p. B42.</ref> | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| * ] | |||
| ==References== | |||
| {{Reflist}} | |||
| == External links == | |||
| * | |||
| {{authority control}} | |||
| {{Chabad}} | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
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