Chaim Yehuda Krinsky

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Note: Chaim Yehuda Krinsky should not be confused with Yehudo Leib Krinsky, a nineteenth century rabbi.

Chaim Yehuda Krinsky (commonly called Yudel Krinsky) is a Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi. He served for forty years in various positions as an important assistant to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He served as spokesman for Schneerson and the movement, and was the sole executor of Schneerson's will.

Krinsky grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He arrived in New York City in 1946, and studied at the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brooklyn, where he was ordained as a rabbi. He was called upon to join Schneerson's staff in 1957.

In 1990 Schneerson restructured the primary Lubavitch organizations and Krinsky was given the position of second in command. Krinsky is a member of the twenty person board of the umbrella organization Agudas Chasidei Chabad, and a member of Chabad's six person Central Committee organization, which oversees the three central Lubavitch organizations:

Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch;
Machne Israel; and
Kehot Publication Society.

After Schneerson's death, Krinsky was made executor of the three central Lubavitch organizations. Though not directed to do so by the terms of the will, Krinsky made himself chairman of those organizations.

Chaim Yehuda Krinsky

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