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Photos: Kinus Hashluchim Gala Banquet #1
Over 6,000 Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim and their guests gathered Sunday evening at the Brooklyn Port Authority Marine Terminal for a gala banquet, the culmination of a five-day International Conference of Shluchim.
U.S. ‘Conquered’ with New Shluchim to South Dakota
The Rebbe’s army of Shluchim have ‘conquered’ the United States, with a new couple moving out on Shlichus to the final state in the union which has not yet had a permanent Shliach – Rabbi Mendel and Mussie (nee Shemtov) Alperowitz and their children will be moving on Shlichus to the state of South Dakota.
6:00pm: Live Broadcast of the Kinus Gala Banquet
Over 5,000 Shluchim and their guests will convene at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, one of the largest shipping terminals in New York City, for the Grand Gala Banquet that will conclude the annual International Conference of Chabad Emissaries. CrownHeights.info will be streaming live video of the event, which will begin at 6:00pm.
8:00pm: What’s Wrong with a Handshake?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 139, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What’s Wrong with a Handshake? Is There a Remedy to Resignation? Are Cartoons OK for Kids? What is the History of the Kinus HaShluchim? Is Anxiety Really a Cry from the Soul? Why Do We Condemn Religious Killing if Torah Commands Us to Do the Same?
Gutnick Family Welcomes Torah in Mother’s Memory
A new Sefer Torah was dedicated today with a joyous ceremony, which began with a procession marching through the streets of Crown Heights accompanied by lively music and dancing. The new Torah was dedicated in the memory of Rebbetzin Devorah Gutnick OBM by her children.
Baby Girl!
Mendy and Chaya (nee Dinerman) Kreiman (Palm springs, CA)
Photos: Faces in the Young Shluchim’s Group Photo
Some 800 young Shluchim posed for a group photo of their own, our photographer brings us a closer look at the faces that make up this amazing photo.
Photos: The Faces that Make Up the Kinus Group Photo
While fitting all the Shluchim into one photo is quite the accomplishment, it is easy to forget that it’s the individual faces which make up the bigger picture.
The Elder Is the Newcomer as Three Generations Share Table at the Banquet
Like many retired businessmen who now live abroad, Gerald Teldon, 92, makes a few trips back to the United States each year to visit his grandchildren and great-grandchildren—the 18th of which is due to be born this winter.
From Days Gone By: The Kinus Roster, 1990
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a gallery of photos from the International Kinus Hashluchim of 1990. Can you identify those in the photos?
Photos: Melave Malka and General Session
Thousands of Shluchim gathered after Shabbos for a grand Melave Malka and general session at the Palace Ballroom in Boro Park, concluding the fourth day of the International Kinus.
Photos: The Shluchim’s Pan Kloli
One of the highs of the Kinus Hashluchim is when the Pan Kloli [general pan] is read at the Ohel. On Friday, all of the Shluchim attending the Kinus signed the Pan Kloli, requesting improvement in world economy, strength to increase the number of Chabad Houses worldwide, spare us from tragedy and to take us out of Golus and bring Moshiach.
Shabbos at the Besht: Chayei Sarah
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbis Yisroel Hahn, Mendy Wolff, Mendel Kalmenson, Yossy Gordon and Gershon Avtzon, who will lead a discussions throughout this Shabbos Chayei Sarah and Kinus weekend.
Weekly Story: My father
Reb Meir Avtzon was born in 5669 (1909) in Mirogod Ukraine (in the Poltova region) and he was the youngest of nine children. By the time he was ten, the Communists regime closed down the yeshivos and chadorim and he had no place to learn, especially as almost all of the melamdim either ran away or were warned not to continue teaching.
