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Photos: Kinus Opens with Welcome Session
Thursday Morning the Kinus Hashluchos began with an opening session at the Oholei Torah ballroom welcoming all the Shluchos.
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Photos: Kinus Hashlucos Gets Underway
Thousands of Shluchos are expected to take part in the annual Kinus this weekend, with registration opening Wednesday evening. Shluchos greeted each other – many of whom have not seen one another since the last Kinus!
Security Beefed Up Ahead of Kinus Hashluchos
Tonight, Wednesday, the International Kinus Hashluchos begins with thousands of Shluchos from around the world descending on Crown Heights. With international unrest one of the primary concerns is safety, and the NYPD beefed up its presence.
Picture of the Day: The Mazkir and the Producer
A CrownHeights.info reader sent in cell phone photos of the Rebbes secretary Rabbi Leibel Groner at the Ohel yesterday praying alongside Mr. Ronen Peled the producer of the upcoming Kinus Hashluchos banquet on Sunday. The grand event will be taking place in the ballroom of the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Security Meeting: Merkos and Police Prepare for Kinus
This coming Wednesday will mark the opening of the international conference of Shluchos in Crown Heights, an event which will bring thousands of emissaries from around the world. One of the chief concerns is safety, and addressing that were representatives form the police department and Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch who met earlier this week.
Photos by Shturem
How a Portrait of 3,000 Rabbis Gets Made
by Matthew Shaer – New York Magazine
Every autumn for the past three decades, a delegation of Hasidic rabbis has gathered outside a shul on Eastern Parkway, in Crown Heights, to pose for a group picture.
Video: Shluchim Give Tour of Sandy Devastation
At the Kinus Hasluchim Banquet a special video profiling the tri-state area Shluchim caught in Hurricane Sandys wrath. Rabbi Chaim Brikman, Chabad by the Ocean and Rabbi Eli Goodman, Chabad of Long Beach gave a tour of their personal devastation and how they mobilized to help out their communities.
Photo Gallery: Shluchim de France
French photographer Mendel Benhamou went from table to table at the Kinus banquet taking pictures of the Shluchim from France.
Videos: Kinus Tze’irei Hashluchim, 5773
We present out readers with two videos, produced by CJ studios, of this year’s Kinus Tze’irei Hashluchim.
Not the Same Old Shluchim Group Photo
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A new and different buzz surrounded this years Shluchim Group Photo after photographer Chaim Perl spent about a minute in front of the crowd – with a camera on a strange contraption – before the ‘official’ photo was taken. This was the result, which was first featured on CrownHeights.info last year!
Photos: Shluchim Farbreng in 770 After Banquet
Following the monumental success of this years Kinus Hashluchim Banquet, hundreds of Shluchim made their to 770 and the Shluchim Office where they sat and farbrenged into the night.
Kinus Banquet 5773 Video Gallery
CrownHeights.info and Jewish.tv present the following collection of videos of memorable moments at the Kinus Hashluchim gala banquet, 5773.
Live Blog: Kinus Hashluchim 5773 Updates
In New York City’s largest ballroom, located inside Midtown’s Hilton Hotel, four and a half thousand people sat down to an evening of elevation, inspiration and tribute – the annual International Conference of Chabad Emissaries.
CrownHeights.info will be live blogging the event from beginning to end, with regular updates from our corespondents at the banquet. To watch a live video of the banquet, click here.
Photo Gallery: The Night Before
Bleachers are set up overnight in anticipation of the Kinus HaShluchim group portrait this morning. The bleachers were borrowed from the Bobover Chasidim in Boro Park.
Photo Gallery: Melave Malka & General Session
Thousands of Shluchim gathered after Shabbos for a grand Melave Malka in the Oholei Torah ballroom. Afterwards, they relocated to Beis Rivkah-Campus Chomesh for a general session themed “Hayom Yom: instilling a new spiritual strength in Shlichus every day.”
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