CROWN HEIGHTS — It’s a world-class portrait.
More than 2,000 rabbis joined a “class photo” in front of the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in the neighborhood this weekend as part of the group’s annual convention, which brings more than 5,000 Lubavitch emissaries from 86 countries to Crown Heights.
The panoramic photo, taken outside of 770 Eastern Parkway near Kingston Avenue on Sunday morning, shows rows and rows of rabbis lined up on specially built bleachers where the Jewish organization takes the photo on the last day of the four-day gathering every year.
The rabbis line up for the portrait on bleachers constructed outside of the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters building, 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. (Photo credit: Eliyahu Parypa, Chabad.org)
The convention, or “kinus” in Hebrew, is one of the largest events to take place in the Lubavitch Jewish community in Crown Heights, the home base for thousands of emissaries who live and work as leaders of newly established Lubavitch communities all over the world.
The class photo, along with a huge annual banquet attended by the thousands of rabbis, are convention traditions; last year, the emissaries claimed to have taken the “world’s biggest selfie” during the event, using a selfie stick positioned in front of the crowd of rabbis.
