By COLlive reporter
Chabad communities, schools and shuls in California are uniting for an unprecedented gathering to strengthen the spiritual well-being and Jewish pride of boys and girls.
Organizers are expecting some 300 children at the “Unzere Kinder Convention” which will be taking place over Shabbos Beshalach, 10 Shvat 5774 – the anniversary of the Rebbe accepting the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch.
It will be held in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles and hosted by the junior congregation “Kol Yakov Yehuda – The Rebbe’s Diamond Daveners.”
“Shluchim around the globe are empowering Jewish children at-large, but we have to stand up and empower our own as well,” explained Rabbi Mendel Duchman, the driving force behind the convention.
Supporting it are Kol Avraham, Bais Betzalel, Chabad of SOLA, Shaarei Tefillah, Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, Congregation Levi Yitzchok-Chabad of Hancock Park, Conejo Jewish Day School and Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles.
“It will be the first of its kind and we will be saluting and empowering Lubavitcher kinder,” Duchman told COLlive. “Our goal for the entire weekend is to light Chabad’s future lamplighters – the leaders of tomorrow.”
The convention will consist of davening, learning, meals and workshops led by some of Southern California’s leading Chabad educators, mashpi’im and inspiring individuals.
A guest speaker will be the veteran children’s activist, Rabbi Shimmy Weinbaum, program director of Tzivos Hashem International, who will be coming in from New York with his wife, Mrs. Zeldie Weinbaum, who grew up on Shlichus in California.
Participants will be housed by local families in Hancock Park where they will be eating on Friday night. The joint Shabbos day meal will be prepared and served by Mendel Goldman Catering.
“We will ensure that your children will be fed the most delicious and nutritious food throughout the Shabbos,” Duchman noted, “with a sprinkling of candy and nosh in moderation.”
The crescendo of Shabbos will be a musical farbrengen on Motzoei Shabbos featuring local parents and singing duo, Shmuly and Bentzi Marcus, better known to the world as the 8th Day Band.
“The children will be imbued with chassidishe pride and empowered with tools to be the lamplighters of the Jewish future of tomorrow,” said Duchman.
For more info, visit unzerekinder.com
R’ Mendel Duchman is the one and only, After Davening in this Shul for over 30 years we all noticed that once R’ Mendel Duchman founded the very successful Kol Yaakov Yehuda shul for kids, the whole environment in the Shul became more relaxed so adults can Daven properly at least on shabboss & Yom Tov, Including: 1) no kids of all ages running around shul, 2) kids actually Daven, 3) kids are exited and motivated to go to shul 4) kids from other neighborhoods participate 5) kids love all the programs run by R’ Mendel Duchman Because he puts… Read more »
that the main session motsay shabbos be broadcast live?
i would love for my kids to see the eighth day perform the chasidishe musical farbrengen –
——————-mother of eleven unzere kinder
Rabbi Shmaryohu Weinbaum is one of the best talents we have in lubavitch
the way he took Tzvos Hashem to the next level—-
kids poshut relate to him-
los Angeles GREAT CHOICE
I heard the head counselors from CGI
Montreal are coming to run the program –
is this confirmed?
could kids from crown heights come to la for the convention?
we are counting on you guys… the Mendel Duchmans, the Shea Hechts, The Rosh- Rav Shochat, Reb Yael, Rav Heller, etc.
We need real bottom line Emes exposed for all to see and benefit from. We need to wear and expose this proudly otherwise if there is a tiny little void and opening the fluff and hype of the yetzer seeps in and that is what we must avoid at all costs. Thanks to all for these wonderful functions. The Rebbe is counting on you guys!!!!!
Finally, someone is thinking of our OWN children, and arranging shlichus with ”unzerer eigener”, who are falling by the wayside, on a daily basis Yes, unfortunately, thats the truth! 🙁
If only more such events and peulos could be organised everywhere to cater for our own, besides the others that our shluchim are B”H so busy with.
Wake up and see that we need shluchim too, for our children, before its too late.
Thank you LA! and thank Rabbi Duchman for being the first, and hopefully starting a new and much needed peulah
Much hatzlocha
Are we finally doing InReach?
keep ithe train going. Mendel Duchman is an amazing and always has the kids smiling.
But col can you stop usingthewords “call of..” we are sick of it!
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened.
Mendel——-keep em hapening
vehamaseh hu hoeeker
always was and allways will be …..
A lesson- to all
always leading the way……
kol hakovod……….
kid living there are really lucky
So glad Conejo is joining this amazing program!
What a beautiful peulah. Hotzlocha rabba bgashmius ubruchnius. It would be terrific for other communities to do the same. May all of those making this possible go mchayil el chayil and bring the Rebbe much nachas.