Chabad emissaries convened in Washington last week for a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden.
The emissaries, who came from the United States and around the world, heard Biden discuss Chabad teachings he had acquired over the years, including the necessity of combining “wisdom, knowledge and understanding,” and explain how these could be applied to statecraft.
The two-day emissaries’ conference, organized by American Friends of Lubavitch, also featured meetings with 20 members of Congress, including the majority and minority leaders in the House of Representatives, a dinner featuring a speech by Nobel Peace laureate and Holocaust memoirist Elie Wiesel, and a lunch with ambassadors from countries where Chabad emissaries serve.
Top Turkish diplomats attended the lunch and dinner with Wiesel, part of a bid to reassure American Jews that Turkey’s Jewish community remains safe despite recent Turkey-Israel tensions. — jta