Every Shabbat and Jewish Holiday, we look at each other in disbelief as more and more students crowd through the doors, excited, energized and hungry for inspiration. Our only question is “where do we put them?”
We’ve got the students. We’ve got the location. We’ve got the positive vibe. We just don’t have the space.
At present, Chabad has one primary space that functions as the shul, the dining hall, the workshop space, the classroom, the meeting room and the party space. Often, within one evening, we have to shift the function of the space, forcing us to move furniture and alter the room set up while navigating the crowd. Needless to say, this is both challenging and exhausting.
Chabad Cornell needs to expand.
Thanks to generous donors, we purchased the house adjacent to Chabad in 2015. The current vision is to demolish that building and expand the current Chabad House by adding an entire wing of 10,000 sq. ft. of programmtic space which will include a dedicated shul, a large beautiful dining hall, a student lounge, a classroom, a library, commercial kitchens and multiple bathrooms.
We propose to accomplish this with the following proposal.