Thirty-three miles into the Arctic Circle, in the village of Kotzebue, Alaska, where more than 70 percent of the people are Eskimo, the local elementary school had guests one day: two Chabad shluchim (emissaries) from Anchorage, some 550 miles away.
Registration is underway in the Jewish Children’s Museum for the thousands of Shluchim who are pouring into Crown Heights for the annual Kinus, which will feature seminars, workshops and gatherings, and culminate this coming Sunday with the grand banquet.
770 Eastern Parkway was the address thousands turned to in search of wisdom, comfort, and a miracle. Just in time for this year’s Kinus, JEM released a film featuring eight first-hand accounts of miraculous healing in the wake of the Rebbe’s blessings.
CrownHeights.info got an exclusive sneak peak at the four new Sefrei Torah being prepared for the Grand Siyum, which will take place tonight. Rabbi Moshe Klein of Hasofer was commissioned to write these new Torahs, which are being dedicated to The Rebbe ‘who sent out Shluchim to care of Jews worldwide.’ The entire community is invited to attend!
With less than 24 hours to go until the start of the annual Kinus Hashluchim, the lights were on last nigh in the office of Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, despite the late hour.
A large crowd of ladies and teen girls filled the elegant Rushmore Estate Ballroom of Highland Millls, NY this past Sunday to enjoy a beautiful evening and benefit Chabad’s Youth Scholarship Fund. Gorgeous, candlelit tables and elaborate Viennese dessert displays created an atmosphere of elegance and beauty.
Next week, just after the Kinus Hashluchim, Taglit-Birthright Israel: Mayanot, a division of Jerusalem’s Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies, will be hosting its first ever Staff Engagement Seminar. The seminar, due to incorporate an array of speakers and topics, will take place at Empire Shtiebel on Monday, November 4th.
On Rosh Chodesh Kislev 5744 (1983) the then relatively small number of Shluchim got together, with the encouragement of the Rebbe, for the first ever Kinus Hashluchim. Presented here is a photo gallery of that gathering.
Samantha Katz, a blogger who used to live in Crown Heights, writes about a fleeting moment of kindness she witnessed between a Hasidc Jewish beggar and an African-American man while visiting her old neighborhood late last Friday afternoon. The moment was so subtle you could have missed it, but the blogger captured a photo of the kind gesture – and tells the story that goes along with it.
What can only be described as a throng of people making their way to celebrate their commitment to Judaism and the achievements their children have made in Hebrew and Jewish studies – was seen at the grand end-of-year banquet of JEMs – Jewish Education Matters – in Sydney, Australia.
Uri and Chani (nee Adler) Feldman (Baltimore, MD)
Mendy Marlow (North Miami Beach, FL) and Chaya (bas R’ Yisroelik) Mockin (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Zalman Lison (Montreal, Canada) and Chana’le Weingarten (Brooklyn, NY)
L’chaim will be Thursday night at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
The Ukrainian Jewish Committee held a memorial gathering in Kiev over the weekend to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the infamous trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, with his American grandson, Jay Beilis, as the guest of honor.
This year’s Kosherfest Expo marks its 25th anniversary, with tens of thousands flocking to the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey to check out the latest and greatest in the Kosher industry.
After lying in ruins through seven decades of the Soviet regime, the centuries-old Jewish cemetery in Berdichev is being slowly and meticulously repaired under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Thaler, Shliach to Berdichev, and Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, director of Chabad of Western Ukraine.
Thirty years ago a group of 45 Shluchim got together for the first time since being sent on Shlichus. Today, 30 years later, the number of Shluchim has grown to over 4,500! This year marks 30 years since the first formal Kinus, which came to be thanks to the encouragement of the Rebbe.
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