Overview
- Thousands of Chabad emissaries gathered for the iconic group photograph at 770 and then moved to a nearly 7,000-person closing gala on Sunday that served as the conference finale and was livestreamed worldwide.
- Organizers held formal security coordination with senior NYPD officials earlier in the week and presented Chabad World Association guidance at sessions that framed security as an operational necessity for Chabad centers.
- Speakers and videos at the Kinus showcased the movement’s global brotherhood by detailing concrete aid for colleagues, including fundraising, housing and caregiving for survivors of the Bondi Beach terror attack.
- Chabad presented updated network figures showing 6,489 emissary families serving more than 4,000 communities across 111 countries, including 1,401 emissary families in Israel.
- The gala included memorial tributes and will announce the movement’s annual hachlatas, the programmatic resolutions that set Chabad’s priorities for the year ahead.