About Us

OUR STAFF:

Rabbi:                                                        Zalman Fischer

Program/Educational Director:                     Chani Fischer

MISSION STATEMENT :              “Judaism With a Smile!”

GOALS:

1. To serve as a resource for Jewish learning and experience in the CSRA.

2. To reach out with unconditional love to every Jew and bring to them the warmth and beauty of Judaism, regardless of background, affiliation or level of observance.

3. To extend spiritual or physical help to all those in need.

 BRIEF HISTORY:

In the mid 1990’s, several local families approached Chabad Lubavitch leaders in Columbia and Atlanta wanting to bring more Torah knowledge to the CSRA.  These local visionaries were familiar with the phenomenal success and contributions Chabad was having in communities around the world and were certain that Augusta could benefit strongly from a fully operational Chabad Center. After meeting with local Jewish leadership in the winter of 1996, the decision was made by the regional Chabad director to move forward to establish a full time Chabad center in Augusta. Rabbi Zalman & Chani Fischer moved to Augusta in that summer and began offering its first Jewish programs. 

Chabad of Augusta serves as a resources to the Jewish community through Adult education, youth programs, Hebrew & Sunday schools, outreach programs, prayer services, holiday events and much more. 

Rabbi Zalman Fischer received s’micha (rabbinic ordination) from the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim in Brooklyn, NY. Among his outreach experience, he also traveled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Moscow, Russia to help revitalize the spiritually impoverished Jewish communities recovering from communist oppression.

The Chabad Center is located at 850 Broad Street.

To learn more about the Chabad, please check out the following link: www.chabad.org

Please send comments and suggestions to:

webmaster@chabadaugusta.org