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SPOTLIGHT

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habaD of Greater 
Downtown Detroit’s 
upcoming Sukkot event 
and its new, separate initiative 
are tied together by the ultimate 
game of strategy: chess. 
For Sukkot this year, ChabaD is 
holding a Black & White Sukkah 
Party, which will feature a chess 
theme.
“We’ve had many friends and 
supporters who are into chess,
” 
said executive director Rabbi 
Yisrael Pinson. “We didn’t want 
to do it “too-chessy” because we 
wouldn’t want people who aren’t 
into chess to feel it’s not for them. 
We did an event about five years 
ago called Black & White Shabbat 
and figured we’ll do that again.
” 
At the event will be caricature 
artists and black and white food 

and desserts, with a chess tourna-
ment going on at the same time. 
ChabaD’s “world-famous” ship-
ping container sukkah is going 
to be around while also having a 
second black-and-white sukkah 
to fit the theme.
The Black & White Sukkah 
Party takes place Sunday, Oct. 
16, at noon at the ChabaD build-
ing (278 Mack Ave. in Detroit). 
RX Specialties is sponsoring the 
event. 
The party ties into a new ini-
tiative being launched by Pinson 
and Yuliy Osipov — Chess for 
Charity, a way to raise money for 
the charity of one’s choice by play-
ing chess.
Two people are paired up and 
each picks a charity. The individ-
uals decide on a wager. Whoever 

wins, that person’s charity receives 
a certain amount of money from 
the other player. 
“Let’s say we bet $36. My char-
ity is ChabaD, your charity is Yad 
Ezra, we play together. I win, you 
give $36 to Chabad. If you win, I 
have to give $36 to Yad Ezra. It’s a 
friendly wager,
” Pinson said. 
Participants can decide to give 
money to both chosen charities, 
but more to one charity versus the 
other depending on the match 
outcome. 
The idea for Chess for Charity 
is to eventually work with an 
online chess platform and bring 
onboard any charities that want to 
participate. Those plans are still in 
their early stages. 
Pinson notes there’s a big inter-
est in chess right now — between 

the Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit 
and the current scandal unfold-
ing in the chess world where 
world champion Magnus Carlsen 
explicitly accused fellow grand-
master and rival Hans Niemann 
of cheating.
“There’s a lot happening in the 
chess world,
” Pinson said. “We 
think it’s a good thing to bring a 
human angle to it by bringing it 
to the sukkah event but also to 
create an opportunity for people 
to raise money for their favorite 
charities and do something good 
for the world.
” 

If you play chess and want to be part of 

a select group that will pilot the Chess 

for Charity project, reach out to yisrael@

chabadinthed.org. To sign up for the Black 

and White Sukkah Party, visit https://jlive.

app/events/2941. 

ChabaD of Greater Downtown Detroit Takes to Chess

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