Rav Dovid Labkowski Shlita Dayan & Moreh Tzedek | דיין ומורה צדק Born and raised in New York City, Rav Labkowski received his Bachelor of Talmudic Law (BTL) and Master of Rabbinic Studies (MRb) law degrees from the Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitz in Brooklyn. He received his Rabinical OrdinationContinue Reading

The History of Chabad in Oakland dates back to the turn of the century when Rabbi Shlomo DovBer and Hadasah Goldberg immigrated from Russia to Oakland in 1900. In 1908 Rabbi Ephraim and Rachel Garfinkle moved to Oakland from San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. They and a group ofContinue Reading

Mrs. Shulamis Labkowski Co-Director and Preschool Director  Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Bais Rivkah High School, she received a Teacher’s Diploma in Education from the Machon Shoshanat Yerushalayim Teachers Seminary in Jerusalem, graduating each program with honors. Shulamis’s pleasant form of sharing the joys andContinue Reading

Yosef Osdoba Rabbi-in-traning Born and raised in Anlaby, United Kingdom, Yossi grow up in a home of a community Rabbi where he was imbued with a sense of mission and purpose to share his love for Judaism with fellow Jews. He studied in Yeshivot in London and New York andContinue Reading

East Bay • AlamedaJewishalameda.comRabbi & Rebbetzin Meir & Mushki Shmotkin(510) 640-2590 • BerkeleyChabadberkeley.comRabbi & Rebbetzin Yehudah & Miriam Ferris(510) 540-5824 Student CenterJewishucb.comRabbi & Rebbetzin Gil & Bracha Leeds(310) 402-1163 • BrentwoodJewishdelta.comRabbi & Rebbetzin Peretz & Mashie Goldshmid (925) 238-8770 • Castro ValleyJewishcastrovalley.orgRabbi & Rebbetzin Shimon & Chanie Gruzman(510) 342-9326 •Continue Reading