About This Campaign

Chitas for Kids is run by Rabbi Mendel and Nechama Dina Hecht, who also run a Chabad House in Cortland, NY.

Over 12 years ago, Chitas for Kids began as a small publication intended mainly for our own children.

As more and more families expressed interest, it soon became very clear that this was a project with much greater need and potential than originally anticipated. Now, over 10,000 families receive the Chitas daily.

Here are some of the many pieces of beautiful feedback that speak for themselves... "I cannot describe how much this has enhanced and enriched our children’s Chinuch and mornings :) Thank you so very much !!!" "Thank you for this precious resource. I’m 70 and I learn new things every day ftom you and have such an easy way to give it over in teaching." "My siblings and I listen and read Chitas for Kids almost every day! We really like it, it gives us lots of knowledge and lets us understand Chitas really well." "We homeschool and your recordings are great!"

Now as we go into our Bar Mitzvah year, we see the darkness around us becoming stronger. The need for a daily anchor of Torah and Chassidus, in the form of the daily shiurim of our holy Rebbeim, is ever more crucial. The shiurim of Chitas bring light and strength amidst the darkness.

We've tried to grow to the challenge, adding audio versions, multiple translations, and multimedia options for Sefer Hamitzvos. It is now used as part of the regular curriculum in many classrooms and as a central resource for homeschoolers.

But there is more room to grow and more that needs to be done... Now it's time to grow up.

A unique opportunity has come up, together with Chabad at Cortland. This project of settling down in a B'ezras Hashem permanent building will enable a sense of stability and seder in an ever-increasing manner.

But we can't do it without your help!

For the first phase of the campaign, the actual purchase of the building, we are over 50% of the way there — and a significant step into the bigger goal. If you are able to, please participate in making it happen!

All donations are doubled, thanks to a generous match by the Rohr Family Foundation.

Donate Now!

Click here to see pictures of this new home, which will IY"H be used to spread Yiddishkeit to the students and community in Cortland, and to strengthen Chinuch of children and the takana of learning the daily shiurim of Chitas and Rambam.

Thank you!
Rabbi Mendel & Nechama Dina Hecht