By COLlive reporter
The International Kinus Hashluchim convention tends to be a destination for up-and-coming Israeli politicians fascinated by the global outreach and scope of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Veteran elected officials, like Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein who addressed the Kinus Banquet, get to witness Chabad’s work first-hand when they travel on state visits.
Newcomers like Avraham Wortzman, elected to the Knesset in 2013 from The Jewish Home party and serving since as Deputy Minister of Education, flew in to Brooklyn, NY, to learn about it himself.
The Be’er Sheva resident spent this past Shabbos in the Crown Heights neighborhood, where he met unseasonably warm weather and was hosted by Jewish music star Avraham Fried.
During his visit, Wortzman got to visit the Rebbe’s room at Lubavitch Headquarters – 770 Eastern Parkway and pray at the Rebbe‘s Ohel gravesite at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens.
He toured the Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad with Rabbi Berel Levine and met with Rabbi Leibel Groner, the Rebbe’s secretary and Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, Chairman of Agudas Chassidei Chabad International.
During one of the sessions of the Kinus, Wortzman drew on his background in the education sector to speak to Hebrew speaking Shluchim about the role faith plays in the upbringing of a Jewish child.
Wortzman said that in merit of the Rebbe’s strength, the entirety of Chabad’s Shluchim are devoted to their holy work and “extend unconditional love to every Jewish person in every place in the world.”
