Locals at international Chabad conference in NYC
From left: Chabad.org’s media relations manager, Jacob Scheer of Morristown; Chabad of Morristown’s director, Rabbi Moishe Gurewitz; Friendship Circle of New Jersey’s director of operations, Rabbi Levi Grossbaum; and Rabbi Zalman Grossbaum, the CEO of Friendship Circle of New Jersey.
Last weekend, approximately 6,500 rabbis and Jewish leaders from every state and more than 100 countries gathered in Manhattan for the annual Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries. It’s one of the largest Jewish gatherings in the world and the largest sit-down meal in the New York area.
Rabbi Ari Herson, director of Chabad of Mendham and Chester, is in the front in this group of Chabad rabbis. (Yisroel Teitelbaum)
This year’s conference came days after the abduction and murder of one of their colleagues, Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the United Arab Emirates, a tragedy that Rabbi Kogan’s colleagues marked with great sadness.
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