4,600 Shluchim and their guests will convene at the New York Hilton, New York City’s largest ballroom, for the annual International Conference of Chabad Emissaries. CrownHeights.info will be streaming live video of the event, which will begin at 5:00 PM.
Just how large is the Rebbes army? Well, the annual Kinus Hashluchim group photo gives you just a hint – in sheer size. Over 4000 Rabbis packed into the service road on Eastern Parkway in front of 770, the Lubavitch World Headquaters, to pose for the photo.
While their fathers participate in the Kinus Hashluchim Haolami their childre, the Tzeirai Hashluchim, get their own program from which they draw insperation from their peers who are on Shluchus as well. Together, they pose for their own group photo in front of 770.
It is extremely challenging to capture more then 4,000 Rabbis in a single photo, not so with 150 photos. Here is the gallery behind the group photo!
Over 1000 young Shluchim are partaking in a special Kinus geard just for them, included is a group photo just like their fathers. Here is a peek behind the scenes of the making of this photo.
Srolik and Chayale (nee Shusterman) Sperlin (Los Angeles, CA)
A fund has been created to provide free loans to families in need in the Long Island community of Hewlett, one of the Five Towns, local Chabad Rabbi Nochum Tenenboim announced.
Bleachers are set up overnight in anticipation of the Kinus HaShluchim group portrait this morning. The bleachers were borrowed from the Bobover Chasidim in Boro Park.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Zlata Gittel (Gustel) Adler, OBM, of London. She is survived by her children: Rabbi Shalom Adler, Shliach in Pinellas County, Florida; and Mrs. Raizy Hecht, Shlucha in Sandton, South Africa.
Moshe and Ita (nee Greenberg) Wircberg (Crown Heights)
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Seven years after a groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility for Chabad of the East Valley, in Phoenix, AZ, construction has begun.
Thousands of Shluchim gathered after Shabbos for a grand Melave Malka in the Oholei Torah ballroom. Afterwards, they relocated to Beis Rivkah-Campus Chomesh for a general session themed “Hayom Yom: instilling a new spiritual strength in Shlichus every day.”
A fire erupted at a Midtown sushi restaurant last night after a worker haphazardly carried gasoline in soy sauce containers, sources said.
Standing on 22nd Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, Donal Holway was consumed with one thought: How could he get every rabbi’s face sharp and in focus?
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While Sholom Ber Drizin has backed down from his demand that 770 Bochurim sign a letter of support for Eshel-Hachnosas Orchim in order to receive a coat from the Yeshiva’s Kupas Bochurim, Mendel Hendel obstinately refuses to allow the non-discriminatory distribution to begin.
Shimon and Chavie Stauss
960 S. Johns Pl. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Moshe and Devorah Leah (nee Carlebach) Avtzon
547 Crown St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Hershey and Chanie (nee Shepherd) Lazarus
750 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.] Apt. C5
Shneur and Sara (nee Barber) Seewald
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Chaim Dovber Lerman (Crown Heights) and Shaina Klein (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Eshel, 272 Kingston Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
Mordy Botnick (Ottawa, Canada) and Malkah Esther Rabinowitz (Montreal, Canada)
K’hal Chassidim, 1612 Carroll St. [corner Schenectady Ave.]
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