A meeting of 37 Chabad-Lubavitch emissary families who serve countries throughout Asia took place this week in Bangkok, Thailand, the site of an annual gathering of shluchim there to discuss their work, concerns, commonalities and goals.
Participants, who arrived on Sunday for the four-day proceedings, assembled from nations including Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, Nepal, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam and Taiwan. Many of those who brought children enrolled them in a special camp organized by MyShliach, a department of Merkos Suite 302 based in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Kinus (Hebrew for “conference”), offered a range of lectures and workshops on topics such as kashrut, Chinuch (Jewish education), conversion, the Seven Noahide Laws, security, finances, administrative responsibilities, teaching, and, for a significant number of them, the unique challenges associated with living so far from established Jewish communities.
The discussions and camaraderie were all that more heightened in this Hakhel year, a time when Jewish men, women and children are encouraged to come together for unity and learning.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch—the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement—who works closely on Chabad activities in the Far East, addressed attendees, as did Rabbi Yekusiel Farkash, a renowned Posek (legal scholar) from Jerusalem.
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