A main feature story about Chabad of the Bay Area was published this Thursday by Chabad.org/news, a national website with tens of thousands of daily readers. Special thanks to Tracie Bein, Boris Berezin and Lynn Donovan for their contributions to the story.
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Rabbi Yitzchok Schmukler, co-director of Chabad of the Bay Area with his wife, Malky, stands in front of the aron kodesh, or Holy Ark, with the Torah he received on long-term loan, as his daughter Mushkie looks on. (Photo: KEVIN M. COX/The Galveston County Daily News
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to live in League City, Texas. But it doesn’t hurt.
The city is within the Greater Houston metropolitan area, with a local population of nearly 84,000 people, according to the 2010 census. It’s home to several waterside resorts that are popular with nearby Houston residents. It’s also eight minutes away from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, the lead center and headquarters for U.S. space shuttle activities, and the home of mission control and the NASA astronaut corps.
And it’s now the place where Chabad Rabbi Yitzchok Schmukler, his wife Malky and their six children call home.