I had the privilege of spending last Shabbat in New York at Chabad’s International Conference of Shluchos (women emissaries). You could spend hours hearing what each shlucha does, and you still wouldn’t reach the end.
I heard from the shlucha in the Caribbean about opening the first Jewish kindergarten. I heard from the shlucha in Taiwan about building the first mikveh. I listened with tears as the shlucha from Kiryat Malachi described a groundbreaking school for children with disabilities.
I heard from the shlucha in Berdychiv, Ukraine, about helping Jews make aliyah under fire. And then the shlucha who works with new immigrants in Jerusalem turned to me, eager to share a story about bar mitzvah celebrations for elderly Holocaust survivors who never had one at age thirteen, while next to her stood the shlucha from an Atlanta campus, where they are confronting antisemitism and anti-Israel prot
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