The JLIC Couple Bringing Orthodoxy to Life at Queens College
Rabbi Robby and Shoshana Charnoff have a rule: dinner at six o’clock at their attached house located 15 minutes away from the Queens College campus; otherwise the two won’t see each other. Frequently dinner doesn’t start on time as they are met on their way out of the college by students needing to talk about something: dating, faith, learning or just to say hello to the popular educators.
Robby and Shoshana Charnoff are part of the Orthodox Union’s Heshe and Harriet Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus. Founded in 2001 by Rabbi Menachem Schrader, and funded by the OU, as well as by Hillel and private donations, the program puts an Orthodox family on college campuses across the United States and Canada. By dint of the heavy concentration of Jewish families in New York, Queens College, part of the City University of New York, has the largest Orthodox college student population aside from Yeshiva University. Consequently, Robby and Shoshana are very, very busy.
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