A Photographic Challenge: Lining Up 6,500 Chabad Rabbis for a Group Photo

Every year thousands of Chabad shluchim (emissaries) gather for a kinus (international conference) and this year was no exception. 

Last week 6,500 rabbis from all over the world convened for a group photo in Brooklyn in front of Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway. After the photo they headed for a banquet in Edison, New Jersey. 

The group gets bigger every year. When we reported on the gathering in 2011, 2016, and 2018, the number of attendees was around 5,000. As you can see, the photo is of men only, and the female members of the Chabad couples have their own separate conference.

In 2011 we had some fun with the photo shoot and embedded an image of the popular Waldo character to give our readers a chance to find "Where's Waldo" in the crowd.

In 2016 comedian Meir Kay joined in the photo wearing a Batman costume. The black outfit was a perfect match for the black clothed rabbis.

This year we're playing it straight and just showing the actual photo and a snippet from the hour-long effort to position all the rabbis for the photo shoot.

Enjoy!

Rapping Rabbi Lights Up the Crowd at International Chabad Emissary Conference

Last week more than 5,000 Chabad rabbis and their supporters gathered in Brooklyn for their annual Kinus Hashluchim, a conference of the Chabad emissaries from around the world.

A highlight of the evening was a Wilmington rabbi who shared his personal journey to religious observance in a rap song.

As Sandy Eller wrote in Vos Iz Neias,

Rabbi Motti Flikshtein, program director at Chabad of Wilmington, Delaware, told the spellbound audience of 5,000 men how it was a single hug from Rabbi Aryeh Weinstein of Chabad of Bucks County, Pennsylvania that transformed him from an wayward teenager into a practicing Orthodox Jew.

Rabbi Flikshtein, who started rapping when he was in high school, launched into the first verse and the chorus of a single titled Coming Home that he released in 2010 as the “Rapping Rabbi” under the name Mor-To-Life.

His nearly one and a half minute long rap focused on how he realized that his life was devoid of meaning until he discovered his faith.

Despite the unconventional style of his music, Rabbi Flikshtein’s delivery was greeted with thunderous applause.

Enjoy!


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