Over 3,000 Chabad Shluchos and their guests are currently gathered in the Hiltion Hotel in Manhattan for their Gala Banquet marking the culmination of the 5-day conference. CrownHeights.info photographers Rivka Lifshitz and Lea Ouahba are covering this momentous gathering.
The Kinus Hashluchos Gala Banquet will take place in the Manhattan Hilton Hotel and will be broadcasted live today, Sunday beginning at 5:15 PM here on CrownHeights.info.
After two people were mugged and shot at, police have apprehended a man who attempted to commit a third and similar robbery in the same vicinity. He is being investigated as the suspect behind the recent string of robberies and shootings.
Yossi and Mushkie (nee Zwiebel) Blau (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 56, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Healing from Molestation and Dealing with Violators (Part II).
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday, February 16, for Presidents Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
On Motzei Shabbos, as the fourth day of the International Kinus Hashluchos came to a close, the thousands of emissaries attending the convention were treated to a lavish Melave Malka.
Memebers of the Jewish community in Copenhagen, Denmark identified the victim in the shooting at the Krystalgade Synagogue as Dan Uzan HY”D, 37, who was a volunteer standing guard while a Bas Mitzvah was taking place inside.
This humorous production by the five Rodal sisters – all Shluchos in different parts of the world – highlights the stark difference between young women who just arrived on Shluchus and their more experienced and seasoned counterparts, in the way they approach various aspects of their day-to-day Shlichus.
Fitting 1,200 Rebbetzins in to a single photo is no small feel, and to superimpose them on the footprint of 770? Leave it to Chaim Perl the official photographer to pull it off.
Dovi and Russi (nee Woonteiler) Wachtel (Crown Heights)
1,200 Shluchos posed for their annual group photo. Changing it up, this years photo was taken on Motzai Shabbos in the Eden Palace in Williamsburg where the Shluchos enjoyed a Melava Malkah.
Participants of the Kinus Hashluchos gathered Friday morning at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens, praying for their families, communities and fellow Shluchos.
Mendel and Devorah Leah (nee Kasowitz) Heidingsfeld (Manchester, England)
A public university set against the backdrop of snow-capped mountains, the University of Colorado Boulder holds the number one spot nationally for its atomic/molecular/optical physics program. Twenty two hundred of its 30000 students are Jewish, but CU’s distance from major Jewish centers means that Jewish life is less accessible to them.
Three people were wounded, one critically, in a shooting outside of a synagogue in the center of Copenhagen, Denmark late Saturday night. This incident follows another shooting in a café where one man was left dead.
Binyomin and Sarah Rivkah Nemon (Crown Heights)
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