A short while before Shabbos Chof Av, the scholarly participants of the Yarchei Kallah summit in Parksville, NY, gathered for a group photo that can only seen once a year.
Pictured in the first row, from left to right:
Rabbi Mendel Lipskar, Head Shliach of South Africa
Rabbi Chananya Yosef Aizenbach, known author in Yerushalayim
Rabbi Leibel Schapiro, Rov and Rosh Yeshiva of Chabad in Miami Beach
Rabbi Yisroel Friedman, Rosh Yeshiva Oholei Torah in Crown Heights
Rabbi Moshe Havlin, Chief Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, Rov of Kfar Chabad, Israel
Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov, Chairman of Agudas Chassidei Chabad, Camp Gan Israel and Yarchei Kallah
Rabbi Yoel Kahn, Chief Chozer of the Rebbe
Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Hertz, Rosh Yeshiva of Lubavitch in London, UK
Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Segal, Rosh Kollel Tzemach Tzedek in Jerusalem
Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky, member of Vaad Rabbonei Lubavitch
Rabbi Yekusiel Farkash, halachic authority in Jerusalem
Rabbi Elimelach Zweibel, Mashpia of Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim in Morristown, NJ
Rabbi Berel Shemtov, Head Shliach to Michigan
Rabbi Yisroel Shmotkin, Head Shliach to Wisconsin
Second row, from left to right:
Aharon Dov Halperin, editor of the Kfar Chabad magazine
Rabbi Avrohom Baruch Pewsner, Rov of the Chabad community in Paris, France
Rabbi Yechiel Kalmenson, Rosh Yeshiva Chabad in Burnoy, France
Rabbi Yaakov Goldshmid, Mashgiach of Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim in Kfar Chabad, Israel
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Kalmenson, Rosh Yeshiva Chabad in New Haven, CT
Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Wolberg, of the Lubavitch Yehsiva in Manchester, UK
Rabbi Yitzchak Kenig, Rosh Yeshiva Ketana of Chabad in Lod, Israel
Rabbi Zalman Wileschansky, Rosh Yeshiva of Tomchei Tmimim in Morristown, NJ
Rabbi Mendel Groner, Mashgiach of Yeshiva Chabad in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Third, from left to right:
Rabbi Yisroel Shimon Kalmenson, member of Lahak
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, editor of Mimeged Yerachim – book of pilpulim said at the Yarchei Kallah
Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Kuperman, a Rosh Yeshiva in Kiryat Gat
Rabbi Efraim Demichovsky, Mahspia of Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim in Kfar Chabad, Israel
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Cohen, Mashpia of the Chabad Mesivta in Chicago
Rabbi Baruch Hertz, Rov of Cong. Bnei Reuven in Chicago
Rabbi Levi Raskin, Lubavitch Dayan in London, England
Rabbi Zalman Yeruslavsky, Rabbi of Chabad in Elad and Rosh Smicha in Kiryat Gat
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Gourarie, Mashpia of Yeshivas Menachem Mendel of Detroit
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Ashkenazi, Mashpia in Toras Emes in Jerusalem
Photo by Baruch Ezagui