We present a gallery of photos from Friday morning of the International Kinus Hashluchim as the shluchim gather at the ohel in Cambria Heights Queens. Follow the entire Kinus Hashluchim here on crownheights.info through daily photo galleries and live streams.
Being that erev Rosh Chodesh is the Yahrzeit of my father HaRav HaChossid Reb Meir ben Reb Gershon a”h, I chose to post a chapter of his life.
We present a gallery of photos from Thursday afternoon and evening of the International Kinus Hashluchim including a full lunch followed b ythe afternoon sessions, lectures and dinner.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe speaking to a shliach outside 770.
As the thousands of Shluchim from around the world come to unite together for the annual Kinus HaShluchim, another installment of the Rebbe’s answers and guidance had been released. This new booklets contains a fascinating collection of over 350 documented answers of the Rebbe from the year 5748-1988.
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In honor of the Kinus Ha’shluchim this week – We share a letter of the Rebbe, acknowledging the good wishes to him on the occasion of his birthday and stating that these good wishes are a tribute to the entire Lubavitch movement. The Rebbe then explains the “secret” behind the hatzlocho which Chabad enjoys in their world wide activities with all Jews.
In this fascinating talk, the Rebbe reconciles the apparent paradox and lays out his approach to Jewish outreach, for every time and every place.
Sam Kanar (London) to Chaya Goodman (Crown Heights)
Uri and Chanie (nee Adler) Feldman (Baltimore, MD)
The thirty-first annual International Conference of Shluchim (or simply, the Kinus) is taking place this weekend in Brooklyn, New York. Among the 5,800 directors and lay leaders of Chabad centers in 100 countries who are expected to attend, over 130 of them will be attending the conference for the first time as new emissaries.
The classic Chicago greystones and quirky bars lining stately Logan Boulevard in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood are home these days to young, upwardly mobile professionals. So Mitch Trachtenberg did a double-take when he spotted black-hatted and bearded Rabbi Avremi Raichik strolling the boulevard this summer. Along with his wife, Rivky, and their young children, the rabbi had just moved to the neighborhood to direct the newly formed Chabad of Logan Square. For the past few months, the Raichiks have been knocking on doors, fielding phone calls from neighborhood residents and getting the word out that they are open for business.
The Kinus Tzeirei Hashluchim 5780 has released their theme song for this year. The song, “ונפלינו,” is a song to the tune of “Ata Vechartanu” composed by Shneur Zalman Minkowitz with vocals by Eli Marcus.
The entire Bais Rivkah’s Campus Chomesh on Lefferts Ave found themselves lining the street around 10:30am Thursday morning for a fire drill. The surrounding streets were blocked off by the NYPD with the help of Shomrim as a safety precaution.
This past Shabbat was the Shabbat Project all over the world. Millions of Jewish families participated in celebrating Shabbat and bringing light into the world. Congregation B’nai Avraham and Chabad of Brooklyn Heights participated in the project as well and invited many families and women to join this worldwide initiative.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday that he has decided to indict Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in Case 4000, and fraud and breach of trust in Cases 1000 and 2000.
Hershy Hecht (New Haven) to Riki Rosenblum (Pittsburgh, PA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at Oholei Torah
