When Rabbi Chaim Boruch and Rivkie Lipskier opened a new $6.5 million, 14,000-square-feet building recently to serve the 7,000 Jewish students at the University of Central Florida—one of the largest Jewish student populations on any campus in the world outside Israel.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony in East Orlando drew 350 to 450 students, faculty, and administrators, city representatives and alumni from as far as Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York who turned out to celebrate.
“This is one of the most exciting charity projects that we have been involved in and that has given the most joy to our family,” Lillian and Moshe Tabacinic of Orlando said in a joint statement. They added that it was “rewarding and easy to support such a project that was led by people as devoted and committed as the Lipskiers.”
