Inside a Weeklong Zoom Session With Thousands of Rabbis

Each year, Chabad rabbis from all over the world gather in Brooklyn. This year, they gathered over Zoom instead.

Eli Reiter
OneZero
Published in
7 min readDec 10, 2020

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About 4,000 Rabbis from all over the world gather in Crown Heights Brooklyn to get their picture taken during the annual Kinus Hashluchim in 2012. Photo: ullstein bild/Getty Images

In month eight of Zoom hell, after two-quarters of grad school consisting of near-daily three-hour-long video lectures that killed me inside, I found myself enjoying a marathon Zoom…

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Eli Reiter
OneZero

Teacher, Writer, and graduate student. Words in NY Times, Washington Post, Slate, and other outlets. Eli Reiter (at) Gmail. Twitter @AlreadyEli