Rabbi Yossi Harlig and Nechama Harligh established The Chabad of Kendall/Pinecrest in 1995.

The development of our new campus will be a joint effort between The Chabad and The Friendship Circle, with each organization raising its respective share of the required funds.

One of the Chabad’s outreach efforts is the Friendship Circle, a program that promotes friendships between people with and without special needs. This non-sectarian program is an embodiment of a central tenet of the Chabad, that every individual should be valued, respected, and included in society.

In 2004 when we established the Friendship Circle here in Miami, we could never have imagined how many lives we would touch! We could never have predicted how many children, teens and adults with special needs would experience friendship in a way they never have before!

Neither could we have imagined the community it would create and the bonds which would form between hundreds and hundreds of children and teens with special needs and their teen volunteers!

The Friendship Circle has become synonymous with acceptance, warmth, love, friendship and most of all HOME! What keep us going is our dream of impacting even more children, teens and adults with special needs! What motivates us is our dream of spreading the message of inclusion and acceptance! And most of all what keeps "our fire" burning  is our dream to create a home away from home, a vibrant, loving center where every kid feels accepted.

We hope you will join us in efforts to build our Community Center, and make a dream come true for thousands of families.