Moshe Kotlarsky

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Moshe J. Kotlarsky is an Orthodox Hasidic rabbi and vice chairman of the Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement which oversees 4,000 religious and educational institutions worldwide.[1] He also directs development for the global network of Shluchim (emissaries) and chairs Chabad on Campus and the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute.

Activities

Kotlarsky is one of the public faces of Chabad, visiting heads of state,[2][3] opening new Chabad Houses worldwide,[4] and giving statements to the press.[5] He was the Chabad spokesman who announced to the world the murder of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg by terrorists at the Mumbai Chabad House,[6] and delivered an impassioned eulogy at their funerals.[7]

Since 1984 he has arranged the Kinus Hashluchim, the international conference of Chabad emissaries which takes place in New York each fall.[8] At the conference, over 4,000 emissaries and their families participate in workshops, social events, a shared Shabbat and a banquet.[9]

In 2008 Kotlarsky was named to the Forward 50.[1]

Family

He is the son of Rabbi Tzvi Yosef (Hershel) Kotlarsky (d. 2008), a native of Otwosk, Poland[10] who spent the war years in Shanghai.[11] The elder Rabbi Kotlarsky was a member of the administration of Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim, the main Lubavitch yeshiva in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for over 40 years.[10]

Kotlarsky married Rivka Kazen, one of the six daughters of Rabbi Shlomo Schneur Zalman Kazen, who opened the first Jewish girls school in France in 1946 upon the directive of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. Rivka was born in Paris, where the school was located. In 1953 Kazen moved his growing family to America and settled in Cleveland, Ohio.[12] Kazen's only son, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kazen (1954–1998), became a Chabad pioneer in the use of internet and email technology to spread Jewish knowledge.[13]

Kotlarsky's son, Mendy, is director of JNet, a Chabad phone study program which partners Jews in learning,[14] and an organizer of other technological services available to shluchim.[15]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Forward 50, 2008". The Jewish Daily Forward. 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  2. ↑ Levi Julian, Hana (30 December 2010). "Chabad Rabbis Beef Up Jewish Presence in Debrecen". Arutz Sheva. hineni.com. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  3. ↑ "Dusseldorf, Germany – German State Parliament Welcomes First Rabbinical Delegation". vosizneias.com. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  4. ↑ "Chabad Center Opens in Berlin". Jewish Week. 6 September 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  5. ↑ Levi Julian, Hana (28 January 2011). "Chabad Gathering Shatters Stereotypes of Chassidic Women". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  6. ↑ Robbins, Liz; Healy, Jack (28 November 2008). "Brooklyn Couple Killed in Attacks". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  7. ↑ "Jewish mother killed in Mumbai attacks 'was pregnant'... and her son, 2, may have been beaten by militants". Daily Mail. 2 December 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  8. ↑ "PHOTOS & VIDEOS: More Than 4,000 Chabad Shluchim Gather For Annual Convention". Yeshiva World News. 8 November 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  9. ↑ Bensoussan, Barbara (3 November 2010). "Colossal Convergence". Mishpacha. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Rabbi Tzvi Yosef Kotlarsky OBM". shturem.org. 8 December 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  11. ↑ "Center Revives Shanghai's Jewish History". The Scribe. 2005. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  12. ↑ Groner, Rishe. "Kazen Sisters". Binah Sisters Supplement, Pesach 5772, pp. 26–31. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  13. ↑ Zaklikowski, Dovid (2008). "Pioneer of the Jewish Internet Had a Passion for People". chabad.org. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  14. ↑ Margolis, N. (7 September 2007). "Long Distance Partners". lubavitch.com. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 
  15. ↑ Lakein, Dvora (15 February 2009). "Hitting the Books: Shluchim Take Their Study to the Web". lubavitch.org. Retrieved 7 February 2011. 

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