Chabad Academy sees students from all over the world, reaching as far as Switzerland, Sweden and South America. As director and founder of Chabad Academy, a free international online Jewish learning program affiliated with the Bais Chabad Torah Center in West Bloomfield, Rabbi Elya Silfen has made it his life goal to help others connect with and learn about Judaism. However, his own encounter with Judaism was one that happened by chance. “I grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as a totally secular kid,” Silfen, 35 of West Bloomfield, explains. “There wasn’t much of a Jewish education over there.”...