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CHAJ

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Founded
  
2015

Headquarters
  
The Hague, Netherlands

Rabbi
  
Shmuel Katzman

Founded at
  
The Hague, Netherlands

Region
  
North of Europe

CHAJ

Purpose
  
Promote Jewish culture, identity and heritage in the Netherlands and The Hague, Israel-related programming, and Jewish education

The Centre for Yiddishkeit in The Hague (Dutch: Centrum voor Haagse Jiddisjkeit; CHAJ) is an non profit organization promoting Jewish culture, identity, education and heritage in the Netherlands and The Hague. CHAJ has Israel-related programming. CHAJ also functions as a Jewish community centre for the Jewish community of The Hague.

Activities

Chaj also holds Jewish related exhibitions, the first exhibition presents 300 years of Jewish history of The Hague and was open during the yearly Hanukkah celebration.

On January 14, 2016 the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, David Lau, placed a mezuzah at the centre, marking the official opening of CHAJ.

References

CHAJ Wikipedia