By COLlive reporter
Following rigorous efforts, the gala banquet which will conclude the annual International Kinus Hashluchim will once more be held in Brooklyn.
In a press release, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky notified that this years event will take place at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, located at Pier 12 in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn.
The 182,000 square feet terminal was determined to be an ideal place to host the thousands of of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim and supporters because of its space and and its proximity to Crown Heights.
As COLlive.com reported, the Kinus organizers have been scrambling since the summer for a proper location for was is considered the largest sit-down full-course dinner in New York City.
With the help of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and other officials, the Pier 12 terminal with a view of the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty was found.
Rabbi Kotlarsky, Director of the Kinus and Vice Chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, led negotiations for obtaining necessary permits to conduct an event such as the Kinus banquet.
His brother Rabbi Mendel Kotlarsky, a key Kinus coordinator, said: “The increase in attendance from year to year requires us to search for locations that are consistently larger and more spacious.
“It is also important to us that it will be easily accessible to the thousands who participate in it. The Brooklyn Terminal was the right choice in terms of location and its appropriate size.”
The Kinus banquet brings together 4000 Chabad rabbis from around the world and their supporters for an evening of inspiration and camaraderie.
The skilled production teams of David Sharf and Ronen Peled will be coordinating the banquet as it has in past years.
They will be assisted by Rabbi Schneor Nejar and members of the Vaad Hakinus who spend days and nights to ensure the success of the event and a kiddush shem Lubavitch.
what can be a better place to host this inspiring, uplifting event than near the water- ma rabu maasecha Hashem! hashem should only bless everyone in the Lubavitch community and the Jewish people at large for all their efforts in education to the next generation of yiddishe neshamos. May we merit to see the revelation on the geulah hamitis vehashleimah right now! amen
I hope the hard working rebbis (of crown heights) will be invited, they are the true shluchim who are shaping future shluchim. they are also fighting through the greatest darkness of our generation – our kids’ confusion…
for all practical purposes, they ARE shluchim, the rebbe concidered them and they are all in the sefer hashluchim.
you are so right!
was waiting to read in the article-at least, a quote from the Meshaleich the Rebbe, regarding making it in Brooklyn.
Surely eventually it will be corrected
MH
I agree!
It would be nice to consider making the Shul (770) bigger so all the Shluchim and Residents can come to daven.
I understand the bottleneck is politics and that is a shame.
While most chasidishe courts in Israel and diasporo have made uforatzto expanded or built new shuls the Rebbes Shul is stagnant. This should raise the blood preasure of everyone.
It is nice to accomodate the Gasmiyus Good Place good fish and steak what about the Rebbes Shul Bais Chayainu ????
i think there is like 3 times more
i bet u there is more pplz here then at obamas parties…
hatzlacha rabba