As the Chabad movement had not established a presence in Mexico up to this time, Polichenco said he asked for and received the blessing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the late Menachem Mendel Schneerson, for the enterprise. As a single rabbi, he also asked the Chabad community for help in finding a wife. They told him of an Italian girl who would be visiting her Jewish family in Los Angeles, and the shidduch was made. He and his wife, Dina, now has a 3-month old son, Abraham Joseph, whom the rabbi later cradled through much of the Shabbat service. Polichenco told the visitors that his congregation has been swelled by Jewish families seeking to flee the pollution and violence of Mexico City.
Toddlers do singing, arts and crafts, dancing.
We try to visit them a couple times a week. We try to make their stay in Tijuana easier. Some say this was at the insistence of Moses himself, who wanted his story told with a certain modesty. The rabbi compared Moses favorably to Adam, whose name begins in the Torah with a large aleph , and suggested that self-aggrandizement led to Adam's downfall, while modesty was a reason for Moses' greatness. But I think they were generally comfortable.