(Chabad.org)
Like many young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Rabbi Mendel Jacobs grew up watching and learning how to serve a Jewish community directly from his parents, who have run a Jewish preschool in Cleveland for many years.
Now after almost a decade studying and serving out-of-town, he’s returned to the city he grew up in, after identifying a part of town that lacked a Jewish infrastructure and is helping to fill that need.
In August, he and his wife, Devorah, moved from the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., where she left behind family, friends and a community she has known for most of her life to set up Chabad of the West Side in Westlake, an affluent suburb in western Cleveland.
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