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Rabbi Braun Addresses Kinus Banquet

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Opening the Kinus Hashluchim, Last night was Rabbi Yosef Yeshayah Braun. Mara D’Asra and Member of the Badatz of Crown Heights, who, as usual, gave a passionate speech about the great work of the Rebbe’s Shluchim, in light of the Rebbe’s Sicha of Chayei Sarah 5752 • Watch

Thousands of Shluchim, One Rebbe: The Gala Banquet

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Over a Thousand Shluchim packed into Razag Ballroom for the Gala Banquet of the International Kinus Hashluchim last night, Motzei Shabbos Chayei Sarah. Chabadinfo’s Dov Ber Hechtman gives us the inside view • Photos

WATCH REPLAY: Banquet of the Kinus Hashluchim 5783

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Tonight, the International Kinus Hashluchim holds its Gala Banquet and is offering a live viewing to benefit the wider public. At 7:30 doors will open, at 8:00 (EST) the Gala Banquet will begin • Watch Live

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Photos: Final Preparations for the Kinus Hashluchim

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After a two year hiatus the Kinus is taking place at the Razag ballroom. Our photographer Dov Ber Hechtman was on site to capture several moments of the final preparations before the grand event. Saty tuned to ChabadInfo for further Kinus banquet coverage • Photos

From One Shliach To Another: Shliach, Stop Fighting!

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In honor of this year’s Kinus Hashluchim, Chabadinfo in collaboration with Beis Moshiach Magazine Presents: From One Shliach To Another, a daily OP-ED throughout the kinus where five Shluchim will give advice to other shluchim. Today Rabbi Yehuda Ginsburg of Haifa, Eretz Yisrael shares his advice for his fellow Shluchim • Full Article

Thousands Pack 770 For Motzei Shabbos of Kinus Hashluchim

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After a Shabbos of connecting, inspiring and farbrenging in the Rebbe’s Daled Amos. Thousands of shluchim packed into 770 for Ma’ariv and Havdalah on Motzei Shabbos. Chabadinfo’s Dov Ber Hechtman was there to capture some unique moments • Photos

ARRESTED: Threat To NYC Jewish Community Foiled, NYPD Commissioner Says

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A potential threat to the New York City Jewish community has been foiled by the FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, Commissioner Keechant Sewell said on Saturday • Full Story

“On The Rebbe’s Shoulders”: Must Shluchim Invest in Chinuch?

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We are Shluchim in a midwestern city in the USA and we try to be totally dedicated to our Shlichus. As our family is growing and the kids are getting older, I feel that their education is not getting enough focus from my husband. He feels that his foremost responsibility is his shlichus and the future of our children is “on the Rebbe’s shoulders”. What is the Rebbe’s approach to the focus that Shluchim should have on the education of their own children? Rabbi Gershon Avtzon answers in this week’s Chinuch and Moshiach column • Full Article

Rabbi Braun: Halachic Questions That Shluchim Ask…

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In honor of the Kinus HaShluchim, we present halachic Q&As that are unique to shluchim who dedicate their life to bring the Rebbe’s message of Geula to Yidden all around the world from Halacha2Go.com by HaRav Yosef Yeshaya Braun shlita, Mara D’Asra and member of the Badatz of Crown Heights • Full Article

PIRSUM RISHON: ‘Mafteich’ Releases New Set of Rebbe’s Edits for Kinus Hashluchim

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In honor of the Shabbos Parshas Chayei Sara & and the Kinus Hashluchim, ‘Mafteiach’ presents the Rebbe’s edits on the Sicha of Sicha of Eve of Simchas Torah Before Hakafos, 5746 (1985), & Shabbos Parshas Chayei Sara 5746 (1985) – on the Topic of Shlichus. This is the 54th installment of Hagaos released and is part of a larger collection of the Rebbe’s Hagaos on Sichos & Ma’amorim, recently acquired • Download

Kinus: Short Friday Packed with Workshop Sessions

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Friday of the Kinus Hashluchim Haolami was another busy day of workshops, where Shluchim came together to share ideas and brainstorm how to improve their shlichus. The overarching theme of the day and the Kinus was how to imbue Shlichus with Hakhel, “Lema’an Yishmi’u u’Lema’an Yilmedu” • Photos

Kinus: Shluchim Get Satiated by Friday Morning Breakfast

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Following the Rebbe MH”M’s minyan Shachris, the Shluchim filed into Eshel’s hall for a scrumptious breakfast, where they enjoyed another tasty meal and an opportunity to connect and farbreng with one another • Photos

Chayei Sarah: To Be Consoled By Hashem Himself

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From the desk of Rabbi Nissim Lagziel, Mashpia in Oholei Torah: This week, we part from the first Jewish couple in history. At the beginning of parshas Chayei Sarah, we read of the untimely passing of Sarah Imenu. At the end of the parsha, we read of the early passing (by five years) of Avrohom Avinu • Full Article

Chassidim Mark 31 Years Since The Rebbe’s Call To Learn The Entire Torah Ohr/Likkutei Torah With a Siyum

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Project Likkutei Torah (PLT), a grassroots project dedicated toward facilitating the learning of Torah Ohr & Likkutei Torah celebrated their first siyum on the entire Likkutei Torah as part of their ‘DACH Yomi’ program. Chassidim are marking 31 Years since the Rebbe’s call to learn the entire Torah Ohr/Likkutei Torah with a Siyum • Full Story

Friday Morning: Thousands Pack 770 for Shachris

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Thousands of Shluchim, Temimim and Anash packed into 770 for the Rebbe MH”M’s minyan Shachris Friday morning following a strong showing for seder chassidus. Chabadinfo’s Dov Ber Hechtman was there to capture several unique moments • Photos

An Open Letter to My Fellow Shluchim

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From the desk of Editor-in-Chief of Beis Moshiach Magazine, Rabbi Levi Liberow: First of all, we need to properly define for ourselves: What is the Besuras HaGeula that we want to announce? Or to borrow the terminology of Kuntres Toras HaChassidus, “its wisdom, its essential character and its function in acquiring the elevated qualities of man.” • Full Article

Shluchim Learn Chassidus Together On Friday Morning

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The sound of Torah learning was already heard early in the morning as hundreds filed into 770 for seder chassidus on Friday Morning. A large group gathered for a special shiur given by Rabbi Avremele Reinitz on Kuntres Shelach Na B’Yad Tishlach 5752 • Photos

From One Shliach To Another: Put Moshiach In Your Annual Budget!

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In honor of this year’s Kinus Hashluchim, Chabadinfo in collaboration with Beis Moshiach Magazine Presents: From One Shliach To Another, a daily OP-ED throughout the kinus where five Shluchim will give advice to other shluchim. Today Rabbi Yisrolik Zaltzman of Toronto, Canada shares his advice for his fellow Shluchim • Full Article

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Mendy Holtzberg – Monterey, California to Leah Schmerling – Crown Heights

L’Chaim: Wednesday, May 14 in the JCM

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No 3 Trains At Kingston Ave? MTA Plans Major Change to Subway Services in Crown Heights

Updated with statement from the MTA: The MTA announced it will unclog the infamous “Nostrand Junction,” just east of Franklin Ave in Crown Heights, which merges the 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines in Crown Heights. The plan means that the 3 train may no longer run along Eastern Parkway and stop at the Kingston Avenue station, and would be replaced by a new “8” subway line • Full Story
Supporting Your Husband to Quit Smoking: A Chassidic Perspective

Question: My husband is 30 and has been smoking for about 10 years. He says he wants to stop but never follows through. I want to help him, but whenever I bring it up, he gets annoyed and tells me to stop telling him what to do and let him live his life. I’m worried about him, but don’t know what to do. Please advise. Thank you • Aharon Schmidt replies, from the Living Jewish’s Farbrengen column • Read More
Rabbi in Normandy Attacked by Afghan Migrant with Chair

Just one week after suffering a violent assault, Rabbi Eli Lemel was once again the target of an attack in the seaside town of Deauville, Normandy. This time, the assailant — an Afghan migrant — struck the rabbi with a chair while he was sitting on the terrace of a local café • Read More
Inspiring: Campus Shliach Donates Kidney, Discovers His Surgeon is Jewish

In a moving act of selflessness, Rabbi Yossi Sued (27), Chabad Shliach at Western University in London, Ontario, donated a kidney last Friday to a woman named Ronit, a single mother in need of a life-saving transplant • Full Story

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