Rabbi Yosef Zaklos
Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Rabbi Zaklos attended the Rabbinical College of Canada in Montreal. After graduation, he was selected to participate in an intensive study program in Israel for a year. He rounded out his Yeshiva education at the Central Chabad Yeshiva in Brooklyn, where he was ordained as Rabbi.
Rabbi Zaklos has actively been involved in adult learning, authoring courses for the largest Jewish institute of adult study programs, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI). This includes the ever popular course entitled “Torah and Environmentalism”. He also penned several articles for Chabad.org, Chabad’s official website.
Rabbi Zaklos has an international repertoire of Jewish outreach, having visited over fifteen countries on five continents to teach and guide families in remote Jewish enclaves. They include the Caribbean, Eastern and Western Europe, North and South America, Africa and the Far East.
He also helped direct the world's third largest Passover Seder in Bucharest Romania, and led High Holiday services in Nigeria, Alaska, and Hawaii. He played a pivotal role in Chabad’s tsunami relief efforts in Phuket Thailand, and traveled on a Chanukah humanitarian mission to assist Cuban Jewry.
Rebbetzin Shayndel Zaklos
Shayndel Zaklos was raised in Boston, where she was imbued with a sense of mission to share her love of Judaism. Her parents Rabbi Chaim and Nechama Prus were sent as emissaries by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to establish the first Chabad center of Greater Boston in the mid 70’s. Today, there are nearly twenty centers.
Shayndel studied in Boston as well as Chicago, spent a year doing advanced Jewish studies in Jerusalem, and graduated from Excelsior College. For the last five years she is teaching high school level Jewish studies in various educational institutions in Brooklyn. With her leadership and creativity she has developed and coordinated a host of innovative community holiday programs and youth activities.
