As followers of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the leader of the Chabad movement and one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century, Rabbi Mendy and Sheina Konikov always have wished to open a Chabad House of their own, somewhere Jews in the community could feel at home.
And today, they are doing just that.
“We thought about moving to many different places,” Mendy Konikov said. “But we ended up moving here (to Winter Garden). We thought it’d be a very suitable place; a place that really needs some type of Jewish infrastructure.”…