By COLlive reporter
The International Kinus Hashluchos is opening today in New York, amidst bitterly cold weather.
Thousands of Shluchos are flying in from around the world to participate, to meet and reconnect with friends, spend quality time together and exchange ideas.
The Kinus will be taking place in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, at Lubavitch World Headquarters, with workshops and some of the programs taking place at the Eden Palace conference center in Williamsburg.
The Shluchos are graciously hosted by Crown Heights families, who will be hosting many of them for Shabbos meals as well.
The weather is expected to be brutally cold, and snow is still on the ground from yesterday’s storm, but that will not keep the Shluchos from visiting the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens on Thursday for the reading of the Pan K’loli.
The Kinus will culminate Sunday at the Gala Banquet at the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan with guest speaker Mrs. Diane Sragowitz and Keynote speaker Mrs. Chani Lipskar, Shlucha in Bal Harbour, Florida. Singer Esther Freeman will perform.
As usual, providing the most extensive and reliable coverage of the Shluchos annual get-together will be COLlive.com, the largest and most widely read Chabad news outlet.
Under the leadership of publisher Mica Soffer and editor Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin, the coverage will include a team of photographers and videographers who will capture all the exciting moments of the 4 day event, including the gala banquet, which will air live on COLlive.com.
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im exited 4 the girls program……a BLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO PIONEERS
although all the shluchos are having fun…….
i miss my mammy!!
can’t wait to meet you all
maryam
we wait the whole year for it…
me toooooo!!!!!!!
sooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!