IN MEDFORD
Rabbi Yitzchok and Baily Kahan, Directors
ABOUT US
Rabbi Yitzchok Kahan
was born and raised in the Chassidic community of Crown heights, Brooklyn. He is the fifth child in his family.
After spending his high school years in Manchester England, and in Migdal Haemek, Israel, he returned to New York where he graduated with honors from the Rabbinical Academy Oholei Torah in Brooklyn. From there Rabbi Kahan was selected to go to Johannesburg, South Africa where he did his internship in outreach work. During the two years that he was there, he taught in the Torah Academy Boys High School, and ran many programs there such as winter and summer camps.
Rabbi Kahan also spent the summers and holidays, traveling to Brazil, Zimbabwe, and Russia, reaching out to unaffiliated Jews. At the age of 22 Rabbi Kahan received his rabbinical ordination from Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch.
In 2002 Rabbi Kahan married the former Baily Lerman. They have four children, Liebel, Yosef, Chaim & Zev.
Rabbi Kahan is the program and youth director of Chabad Lubavitch of Camden and Burlington Counties and the Director of Chabad in Medford.
Baily Kahan
was born in Israel and raised in the Chassidic community of Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
After attending Beth Rivkah High School, she studied for a year in Israel in a teacher’s college. Upon returning to New York she completed a year in a teacher’s training seminary, and went on to receive her Bachelors degree in psychology from Thomas Edison College.
Baily Kahan has taught at various schools. For four years she was a teacher at the Silberstein Hebrew Academy in Great Neck, Long Island. She has also done outreach work during the summers in places such as Vilnius, Lithuania, Fairfax, Virginia and Cincinnati, Ohio.
OUR GOAL
Chabad of Medford’s goal is to reach out to the Jews of Medford and its surrounding areas, giving them the opportunity to find out more about their Judaism. Chabad is known for its warmth and nonjudgmental approach. We believe that every Jew is important, regardless of level of observance or affiliation.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Chabad of Medford
P.O. Box 1714
Medford, NJ 08055
Phone:
609-953-3150
Email:
Chabad@ChabadMedford.org
Web:
www.ChabadMedford.org
Chabad of Medford is an affiliate of Chabad Lubavitch of Camden & Burlington Counties