Est. 2016 · Durham, NC

Home away from home.

Shabbat dinner every Friday. 200+ students. You belong here.

  • Free mezuzahs, hung on your dorm door
  • Loaves of Love, fresh challah to your door
  • Sinai Scholars · 8 weeks · $350 stipend
  • Birthright Israel with your Duke crew
  • Yalla, the kosher food truck on campus
  • Two packed Seders every Pesach
  • Chicken soup at dorm doors, no questions asked
  • Birthday cakes on us
  • RSVP by text: Shalom to (919) 897-7018

Live from the house

Real life, in real time.

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Hundreds of students seated for Shabbat dinner in the Fleishman House backyard
Rabbi Nossen helping a student wrap tefillin at sunset
Rabbi Nossen raising a toast over a backyard full of students
A boy in a kippah enjoying a bagel on the front steps
Chabad at Duke students standing in a circle in front of Duke Chapel at golden hour

Who we are

Nossen & Chaya, and a house full of Jewish Blue Devils.

We moved to Durham to build the kind of place Jewish students would call home. Not a program, not a service. A home.

Our story