Yehuda Krinsky

Template:Short description Template:For Template:Infobox person Template:Chabad sidebar Chaim Yehuda ("Yudel") Krinsky (born December 3, 1933, in Boston, Massachusetts)<ref name="helsinki"/> is a rabbi and a leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. He served in various positions of the movement's administrative staff since 1954, and as a personal secretary to its chief rabbi, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and is chairman of the movement's main institutions.

In 1988, after Schneerson's wife died, he named Krinsky sole executor of his will, later probated and recorded in New York.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

As of 2004, Krinsky was among the most influential figures within the Chabad movement.<ref name="grow">Template:Cite book (Chapter 20)</ref>

Biography

Krinsky grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and was educated at the Boston Latin School. At the age of 12, he was sent by his parents to study at the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brooklyn, where he received his rabbinic ordination.<ref name="helsinki">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He joined the Lubavitcher Rebbe's staff in 1952 as a driver.<ref name=ami>Frankfurter, Rabbi Yitzchok. "The Life of a Mazkir: Q&A with Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky". Ami, June 10, 2015, pp. 74-78.</ref>

Activities

In 1956 Krinsky was invited by Schneerson to join his secretariat, headed by Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov.<ref name=ami/> Krinsky's position included work on behalf of the Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. At that time, Schneerson also appointed Krinsky to direct the Lubavitch News Service, including disseminating Schneerson's talks around the world via satellite.<ref>"Rabbi using modern medium in call for traditional values". The New York Times, 23 January 1983.</ref>

In 1970, Schneerson appointed Krinsky to the administrative boards of the movement's umbrella organization, Agudas Chasidei Chabad, its educational arm, Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch and its social-services arm, Machne Israel.

Schneerson selected Krinsky to serve as the official secretary of the movement's three central organizations, Agudas Chasidei Chabad, Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, and Machneh Israel, the movement's social services arm.

Family

Krinsky married Devorah Kasinetz, daughter of Rabbi Zev and Ethel Kasinetz. Their children are:

• Rabbi Levi Krinsky, director of Chabad of New Hampshire
• Rabbi Hillel David Krinsky, who is married to Shterna Sarah Garelik, daughter of Rabbi Gershon Mendel Garelik, Chief Chabad Emissary of Milan, Italy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> And is the founder of Jewish Educational Media.
• Menachem Mendel Krinsky, who is married to Miriam Turner of Chicago
• Rabbi Shmaya Krinsky, who is married to Rivkah Gutnick, daughter of Australian commodities magnate Joseph Gutnick<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Sheine B. Krinsky, who is married to Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman, associate director of the Kehot Publication Society<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Chana Krinsky, who is married to Rabbi Joseph Futerfas, director of Camp Gan Israel, New York

Recognition

Krinsky appeared in several lists of influential American Jews, including the Forward 50 in 2005.<ref>PR Newswire (10 November 2005). "Rapper, Republicans, Relief Org. Heads and Rabbis Named to Forward 50, by America's National Jewish Newspaper".</ref>

From 2007 to 2013,<ref>"Newsweek's 'Top 50 Rabbis' List Is Ending After Seven Years."Template:Dead link The Huffington Post. Feb. 25, 2014.</ref> Newsweek magazine compiled an annual list of the fifty most influential rabbis in the United States. Krinsky was in the top five every year.<ref> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=news2010>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>"America's top 50 rabbis." Template:Webarchive The Daily Beast. Accessed November 30, 2014.</ref>