Overview
- Organizers reported more than 6,500 shluchim and guests at the closing banquet in Edison, New Jersey, with live streaming to a worldwide audience.
- Thousands posed for the annual group photo outside 770 Eastern Parkway, representing 111 countries and over 6,000 communities.
- A Sefer Torah was completed and dedicated in memory of longtime Kinus leader Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, followed by hakafos and a global farbrengen at 770.
- Program segments spotlighted service in challenging settings, including Rabbi Yaakov Raskin’s account of safeguarding family and Torah scrolls during Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica.
- Earlier sessions at Brooklyn’s Bedford Armory featured candid peer panels and previews of chinuch initiatives, including plans to apply AI tools to children’s Torah learning.