NEW YORK, NY — When the six-hour-long grand banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries drew to a close earlier this month, more than 100 black-hatted men spilled out of the hall at Manhattan's Pier 94 along the Hudson River to board a waiting coach bus. The group, which had attended the fete with 3,000 of their closest friends - fellow emissaries stationed all over the world - then headed to the historic Puck Building downtown near New York University.
Alumni of 50-Year-Old Detroit Institution Gather to Honor Benefactor
NEW YORK, NY — When the six-hour-long grand banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries drew to a close earlier this month, more than 100 black-hatted men spilled out of the hall at Manhattan’s Pier 94 along the Hudson River to board a waiting coach bus. The group, which had attended the fete with 3,000 of their closest friends – fellow emissaries stationed all over the world – then headed to the historic Puck Building downtown near New York University.
A short time later, these alumni of Detroit’s Cheder Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch trickled into the room.
“A lot of guys went through my house,” explained Chana Stein, principal of the school’s girls’ division and wife of the Cheder’s director, Rabbi Bentzion Stein.
Peering around the room with pride, she noticed students from years ago. The boys who had boarded at her house and eaten Shabbat dinners with her family had suddenly become married men with children.
