Chabad Lubavitch of Slovenia
Chabad-Lubavitch and Slovenia: no resident emissary or centre; the Chief Rabbi of Slovenia, Ariel Haddad, is a Chabad emissary based in Trieste, Italy, who travels to Ljubljana
| Chabad-Lubavitch in Slovenia
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| Type | No resident Chabad emissary or centre (served from Trieste, Italy) |
| Headquarters | None in the country (Chabad of Trieste and Slovenia is based in Trieste) |
| Location | Slovenia (no base) |
| Area served | Ljubljana |
| Key people | None resident. Visiting: Ariel Haddad (Chief Rabbi of Slovenia since 2003, based in Trieste) |
| Remarks | Regular visits from Trieste |
Chabad-Lubavitch in Slovenia has no resident emissary or Chabad house. No Slovenian centre appears in the movement's own directory, which instead lists "Chabad of Trieste and Slovenjia" at an address in Trieste, Italy, run by Rabbi Ariel Haddad.[1][2] Haddad, a Rome-born Lubavitch rabbi who directs the Jewish Museum in Trieste, was installed as Chief Rabbi of Slovenia in 2003.[3] Jewish Heritage Europe says the only active congregation is in Ljubljana, where Haddad "commutes on a regular basis from Trieste".[4]
Visits
There is no resident emissary or centre.
- 1999–2003. JTA reported in 2003 that Haddad had been making monthly visits to Slovenia for the previous four years.[3]
- 2000. Chabad.org, the movement's news site, reported that two rabbinical students on the movement's summer outreach programme visited Jewish communities in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Slovenia in July 2000.[5]
- 2003 onwards. At a ceremony in Ljubljana in late February 2003, attended by government officials, diplomats and Christian and Muslim leaders, Haddad was formally installed as Chief Rabbi of Slovenia and a Torah scroll was welcomed for the community's new synagogue, which JTA described as the first synagogue in Slovenia since the Holocaust. Haddad told JTA he planned to come weekly and was looking for an apartment so that his family could spend Shabbat in Ljubljana.[3] Jewish Heritage Europe describes him as commuting regularly from Trieste.[4]
Relations with the state
Slovenian government officials attended Haddad's installation in 2003. The community gave the other religious leaders present a Slovenian-Hebrew edition of the Haggadah, which JTA reported had been published the previous year with government funding.[3]
Funding and controversies
None found.
See also
References
- ↑ "Europe", Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters (lubavitch.com) centres directory, accessed 23 October 2026. The country list does not include Slovenia.
- ↑ "Chabad of Trieste and Slovenjia", Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters (lubavitch.com), accessed 23 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Slovenian Jews mark milestone", JTA, 18 March 2003.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Communal Contacts" (Slovenia), Jewish Heritage Europe, accessed 23 October 2026.
- ↑ "Postcard from Sarajevo", Chabad.org, 6 August 2000.