I’m reading Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s biography (Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History) and he writes on pages 451:
The head of one of the largest Jewish federations in the United States told R. Telushkin that upon assuming leadership, he made a dozen phone calls to a variety of synagogues, posing as a married man in his early 30s with two children who had been unemployed for more than a year. He was broke and wanted a synagogue home for the holidays. The range of responses and the level of sympathy extended varied, but there was only one bit of advice that was uniformly offered by all twelve institutions.
“Call Chabad.”
