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CTeen is an international organization dedicated to educating Jewish youth about their heritage. It is the teen-focused arm of the Chabad movement, operated by Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch and has over 100,000 members worldwide with 600 chapters in thirty seven countries. It is open to all Jewish teens regardless of affiliation and has been called “the fastest growing and most diverse Jewish youth organization in the world”.

Programs

CTeen's various programs include:

  • Suicide Alert workshop, which aims 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.
  • 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.
  • Heritage Quest, which aims to deepen the connection of Jewish teens to their heritage through educational trips to Poland and Israel, offering teens the chance to explore their roots at the source.
  • Kosher Food Club, a co-curricular high school club facilitated by CTeen chapters and operating in over fifty high schools throughout the United States, 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.
  • 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 Gad Elbaz, Yakov Shwekey and American Hasidic rapper Nissim Black.
  • National Campus Office — coordinator of Chabad on Campus, 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
  • In 2019, CTeen partnered with Yeshiva University in launching CTeen U, a college accredited program where teens learn about Jewish philosophy, ethics and history.

Organizational structure

CTeen was launched by Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky of Merkos Suite 302 in 2010 and operates all over the world in cities like Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Leeds, Munich, Buenos Aires and New York. It's director is Rabbi Shimon Rivkin and Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky serves as chairman.

Picture of room '302'

Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch has these divisions:

  • Central Chabad Lubavitch Library — home to 250,000 books and over 100,000 letters, artifacts and pictures Its director is Rabbi Shalom Dovber Levine.
  • Chabad.org — an online repository of Jewish knowledge and information that attracts one million users per year
  • Jewish Educational Media (JEM) — the broadcast and film production division of the Lubavitch movement, founded in 1980
  • Jewish Learning Institute — provider of adult-education courses in hundreds of cities worldwide
  • Jewish Learning Network (Jnet) — a telephone study-partner program begun in 2005
  • Kehot Publication Society and Merkos Publications — were established in 1942, these publishing divisions have produced more than 100 million volumes in a dozen languages
  • Merkos Shlichus — is a rabbinical student visitation program, which sends hundreds of "Roving Rabbis" to strengthen the Jewish awareness in Jewish communities worldwide
  • Merkos Suite 302 — Program development to support Shluchim and their communities, such as CKids and MyShliach. 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. Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky serves as executive director.
  • CTeen — is the teen arm of the Chabad movement and has 100,000 members worldwide. Its president is Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky who also serves as the executive director of Merkos Suite 302, which launched CTeen in 2010. 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.
  • National Campus Office — coordinator of Chabad on Campus, 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
  • 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.
  • Office of Education (Chabad) — a guidance, training and service center for administrators, educators, students and parents of Chabad-Lubavitch educational institutions
  • Shluchim Exchange — an online service founded in 2005 to facilitate communication among over 1,500 Chabad shluchim
  • The Shluchim Office — coordinator of Chabad's worldwide shaliach program

See also

References

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