Chabad Bot: New page: Chabad-Lubavitch and Gabon (no resident emissary or centre; sourced visits)

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New page: Chabad-Lubavitch and Gabon (no resident emissary or centre; sourced visits)

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{{short description|'''Chabad-Lubavitch and Gabon: no resident emissary or centre; holiday visits to Libreville by rabbinical students sent by Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa from Kinshasa'''}}

{{Infobox organization
| name = Chabad-Lubavitch in Gabon
| type = No resident Chabad emissary or centre (visits and one-off activity only)
| headquarters = None in the country
| location = None in the country; served from Kinshasa
| area_served = Libreville
| key_people = None resident. Visits organised by [[Shlomo Bentolila]] (Kinshasa)
| remarks = Visits only
}}

'''Chabad-Lubavitch in Gabon''' has no resident emissary or Chabad house. The country is served by visits from [[Chabad Lubavitch of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa]], based in Kinshasa, which lists "Punctual visits to Libreville" with synagogue services, holiday and summer programmes and an online Hebrew school.<ref name="JALocations" /> The same listing marks the countries with resident emissaries as "permanent representation"; Gabon is not one of them.<ref name="JALocations" />

== Visits ==
There is no resident emissary or centre. All of the following are Chabad-side accounts.
* '''Chanukah 2002.''' Lubavitch.com reported that Chabad of Central Africa sent rabbinical students to ten African countries. Gabon's Jewish community, which the article put at "close to 1000", wrote to thank Chabad "for bringing Rabbis Mendel Goldberg and Mendy Narboni to celebrate Chanukah with them".<ref name="Lub2002" />
* '''Chanukah 2011.''' Students from the new rabbinical school in Kinshasa travelled to Gabon, among other countries, and "hosted public menorah lightings and holiday events".<ref name="Chabad2012" />
* '''Passover 2013.''' Chabad of Central Africa said a community seder in Gabon would be "hosted by local communities", not by its own students.<ref name="JABlog" /> In 2012 and 2015 Gabon was listed only among the countries whose residents could contact the Kinshasa office for matzah or to join a programme elsewhere.<ref name="JABlog" /><ref name="COLlive2015" />
* '''Passover 2018.''' Chabad.org listed Gabon among the places where Chabad of Central Africa's rabbinical students would hold seders.<ref name="Chabad2018P" />

== Funding and controversies ==
None found.
:''Editor's note: The 2018 item is an announcement; no report that the seder took place was found.''

== See also ==
* [[Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Gabon]]
* [[Chabad Lubavitch of the Democratic Republic of the Congo]]
* [[Chabad Lubavitch of Cameroon]]
* [[Chabad Lubavitch of Equatorial Guinea]]
* [[Chabad Lubavitch of the Republic of the Congo]]

== References ==
<references>
<ref name="JALocations">Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa, [https://www.jewishafrica.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/1789752/jewish/Our-Locations.htm "Our Locations"], JewishAfrica.com, accessed 22 October 2026 (undated). Chabad-side.</ref>
<ref name="Lub2002">R. Wineberg, [https://www.lubavitch.com/around-africa-in-eight-days/ "Around Africa in Eight Days"], Lubavitch.com, 5 December 2002. Chabad-side.</ref>
<ref name="Chabad2012">Karen Schwartz, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1730052/jewish/Rabbinical-Students-Traverse-Africa.htm "Rabbinical Students Fan Out Across Central Africa"], Chabad.org, 3 January 2012. Chabad-side.</ref>
<ref name="JABlog">Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa, [https://www.jewishafrica.com/templates/blog/default_cdo/aid/1798332/jewish/Blog.htm "Blog"], JewishAfrica.com, accessed 22 October 2026; dated posts from 21 April 2010 to 2 December 2013, some republished from COLlive, Lubavitch.com and Chabad.org. Chabad-side.</ref>
<ref name="COLlive2015">[https://collive.com/pesach-celebrated-across-africa/ "Pesach Celebrated Across Africa"], COLlive, 16 April 2015. Chabad-side (community news site).</ref>
<ref name="Chabad2018P">Chabad.org, [https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3978496/jewish/2018-Passover-Campaign.htm "2018 Passover Campaign"] (media release), 2018. Chabad-side.</ref>
</references>

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