Shopify President Makes Good on 18-Year-Old Promise to His Campus Rabbi

In 2008, Harley Finkelstein was a young law student at the University of Ottawa when he told Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky that he’d like to one day help purchase a building for Chabad at the campus.

At the time, Chabad was being run out of the Boyarsky family living room.

“I was a poor law student; I wasn’t a rich kid,” Finkelstein, today the president of the online shopping platform Shopify, tells Chabad.org.