NEW YORK, NY — An exclusive group of emerging leaders at college campuses across the world kicked off the largest-ever weekend event hosted by the Chabad on Campus International Foundation.
All told, more than 800 Jewish students and recent alumni gathered in Crown Heights, N.Y., for the International Shabbaton and Conference, but participants of the leadership training portion hailed it as groundbreaking in uniting proven leaders from the business and philanthropic fields with the next generation. By the summit’s conclusion, participants had approved a slate of four resolutions to improve Chabad House programming on both the local and international levels.
Emerging Leaders Congregate in Manhattan Before Largest-Ever Shabbaton
NEW YORK, NY — An exclusive group of emerging leaders at college campuses across the world kicked off the largest-ever weekend event hosted by the Chabad on Campus International Foundation.
All told, more than 800 Jewish students and recent alumni gathered in Crown Heights, N.Y., for the International Shabbaton and Conference, but participants of the leadership training portion hailed it as groundbreaking in uniting proven leaders from the business and philanthropic fields with the next generation. By the summit’s conclusion, participants had approved a slate of four resolutions to improve Chabad House programming on both the local and international levels.
Above all, “the sharing and learning with other students made the ideas come alive,” stated Adam Kent, who represented Stony Brook University. “This conference has inspired me to help lead my campus in a larger capacity than before.”
Hosted at Chabad-Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan, the leadership conference brought together 50 student leaders from 40 campus-based Chabad Houses to swap programming ideas. By the start of the Shabbaton on Friday, attendees of the leadership conference led key workshops and sat down for brainstorming sessions Saturday night.
Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, co-director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life serving the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, chaired the conference.
“Each university has a unique demographic that creates its own distinctive challenges,” he began. “Bringing the leaders who face these different difficulties together allows them to study and learn from each other’s experiences.”
