


The Making of a Chief Rabbi
It had become a custom of mine to spend the High Holidays with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory. I was grateful to be hosted by the same family year after year, allowing me to relax and focus on my spiritual needs. One year in the late 1960s, I arrived at their home and discovered I’d been given a roommate for the holidays.

Meretz MK Seeks to Ban Chabad from Visiting IDF
MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) on Sunday will introduce a bill aimed at limiting the activities of religious leaders interacting with the IDF and Israel Police.
New Engagement!
Zalman Sandhaus (Crown Heights) and Mushky (Bas R’ Berel) Lipskier (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Shloime and Tzivyah (nee Kehaty) Greenwald (Crown Heights)

Oldest Director of New Chabad House at Age 77
Young at heart and brimming with enthusiasm, Rabbi Sholom Ber Butman, 77, became the oldest person to open a new Chabad-Lubavitch center with the establishment of the 32nd Chabad House in Tel Aviv.
Baby Girl!
Yitzy and Mimi Goldsmith (Monsey, NY)
Kinus Banquet Photos 10: The Young Shluchim’s Banquet
While the Kinus Hashluchim Banquet was going on in Red Hook, Brooklyn, another banquet – just as important and lively – was going on back in Crown Heights: the banquet of the Tzeirei Hashluchim – the young and future generation of Shluchim.

Kinus Banquet Photos 9: Post Banquet Farbrengen
Channeling the awesome energy from the Banquet, Shluchim along with their lay leaders made their way back to 770 and sat down for the – what has become – traditional Farbrengen.

360 View of Kinus Hashluchim
Photographer Chaim Perl shares the moments before the group photo is taken and the banquet begins.
Addressing the theme of the Chossid's need to strive for a higher standard in everything he does, Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks of the role of the Shluchim, his experiences with the Rebbe, and of the need for “Unashamed Jews.”
Video: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Addresses the Kinus
Addressing the theme of the Chossid’s need to strive for a higher standard in everything he does, Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks of the role of the Shluchim, his experiences with the Rebbe, and of the need for “Unashamed Jews.”
Excerpt from Rabbi Mendy Cohen's Address to the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim 2011.
Video: Rabbi Mendy Cohen’s Keynote Address
Excerpt from Rabbi Mendy Cohen‘s Address to the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim 2011.

Shluchim break out in dance following the 'call of the roll' in which every location where there are Chabad Shluchim was recognized at the Banquet.
Video: Shluichim Break Out in Dance!
Shluchim break out in dance following the ‘call of the roll’ in which every location where there are Chabad Shluchim was recognized at the Banquet.
Shluchim from around the world greet the Shluchim and welcome them to the Banquet, in the language of location of their Shlichus
Video: Shluchim Welcome Shluchim to the Banquet
Shluchim from around the world greet the Shluchim and welcome them to the Banquet, in the language of location of their Shlichus

Kinus Banquet Photos 7: Dancing
Pictures by Shmuli Evers and Binyomin Lifshitz

Kinus Banquet Photos 6: Roll Call
Pictures by Shmuli Evers and Binyomin Lifshitz