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The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2018

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Yehuda Krinsky

Chairman, Chabad’s Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky served as secretary to Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson for over 40 years. He is the chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Rabbi Krinsky has been active in helping build new schools and expanding the reach of the Chabad movement around the world. He has also participated in efforts to retrieve a large library of books connected to the Chabad movement which is in the custody of the Russian government. Many of the books were seized from the previous rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, as part of a Soviet crackdown on religion after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Krinsky garnered the support of, among others, prominent actor Jon Voight and former Kansas governor Sam Brownback for the cause of returning these books. (Photo: Chabad movement.)

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