Panasaim

Panasaim (Hebrew: הפנסאים) (transl. The Lamplighters) is a Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic youth organization based in Kfar Chabad Israel.

The organization holds conferences, Shabbatons, and runs a publishing department. The Camp Gan Yisroel Eretz HaKodesh network is run in partnership with Panasaim. A publishing branch produces Chassidic educational booklets and weekly newsletters. It also hosts national conventions for Chabad children. The organization is affiliated with the Tzeirei Agudat Chabad of Israel. The name of the organization is derived from a saying by the fifth Chabad Rebbe Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, "A Chasid is a pansai (lamplighter) whose job is to illuminate the world". The organization maintains contact with the children of the Chabad Shluchim (emissaries) around the world and holds virtual conferences for them. The organization’s offices are located adjacent to the Chabad HQ, 770 Eastern Parkway, in The Shluchim Office Building in Brooklyn, New York, and in Israel in Kfar Chabad near the Tzeirei Agudat Chabad building. The organization also operates the Panasaim Choir.

Chairman of the Pansaim organization is Shimon Rabinowitz, and the organization's educational committee is headed by Rabbi Zalman Gopin The organization operates in collaboration with the global Tzivos Hashem organization in New York, Chabad Youth, and The Shluchim Office. The organization is recognized as an official youth movement and receives funding from the Ministry of Education.