American entrepreneur and real estate investor David Lichtenstein will be the guest speaker of the gala banquet of Chabad’s international Kinus Hashluchim.
The banquet gathers Chabad rabbis and supporters from around the world in a lavish and celebratory event. It will be held this year at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison, NJ, and will include speeches, feature videos, music and dancing.
Lichtenstein is the founder and CEO of The Lightstone Group, which oversees some 15,000 rental units across 80 properties across 28 states. He also developed a millenial-focused city hotels with Marriott called Moxy.
Lichtenstein is the founder of the Halacha Headlines podcast, in which he invites rabbis and experts on a topic of discussion each week, in Question and Answer style, to work through the halachic nuances of each issue.
Lichtenstein was born in 1960 in New York City and grew up in Boro Park, Brooklyn.
Lichtenstein has donated significantly to many Jewish institutions both in and out of New York.
Lichtenstein is the author of three books on the Orthodox Jewish perspective on current events and contemporary topics, and has also authored a commentary on the Mishnah Berurah that presents the positions of many contemporary halachic authorities in relation to the text.
Lichtenstein is a noted baal tzedakah, who, in addition to many other undertakings, has sponsored bikkur cholim houses across the tri-state. He has contributed tens of millions of dollars to tzedakah over the years.
His wife is a daughter of Rav Shmuel Mendlowitz zt”l, rosh yeshiva of Mesifta Bais Shraga of Monsey and a son of Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz zt”l, the legendary Torah pioneer and menahel of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas.
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DAVID LICHTENSTEI GREW UP ON 49TH STREET IN BORO PARK
HE WENT TO YESHIVA KARLIN STOLIN
HE LEARNED IN YESHIVAS MIR IN NEW YORK UNDER RAV BRUDNY
HE WAS CHAVRUSA WITH RAV OSHER ARIELLI IN THE MIR YERUSHALAYIM
And therefore……….
So how much of a donation will he be giving to Lubavitch? Is it really worth it? Who cares about his real estate portfolio. Does he give maaser kihalacha on ALL his earnings? Btw, how’s that investment in LIC going, after AOC killed the Amazon deal? Are we allowed to ask?
I don’t know the man, and do not keep the account of his finances.
However, how is it YOUR GD business whether he gives ma’aser, or not, and on which earnings? When did you become Hakodosh Boruch Hu’s bookkeeper? He most certainly doesn’t owe YOU anything.
How about YOU giving what you must, according to halacha, or upon the psakim of your own rabbi, and others will do the same?
Why must every wealthy individual be scrutinized by every nobody as to his spending, giving, investing, or living?
As a wise person said many years ago – people would mind their own business, if it were worth minding.
When there is effusive praise of an individual, that’s going to elicit push back. It says that clearly in the sefer shmiras halashon. This is the internet and this website welcomes comments and feedback from its readers. This is not for the faint of heart. If you can’t handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
details on David Lichtenstein are absurd and insulting
David has skewed his Headlines program to promote Chabad-Lubavitch for years, and obfuscate significant issues with them, in an unbalanced manner.
See full page advertisement in current 5TJT, p.35, telling people to sign a form accepting the late Lubavitcher Rebbe as King Moshiach.
So we’ve moved on from our obsession of Ira Zlotowitz and have now settled on Lichenstein? Who’s next? This is getting excited. You guys love chevra with a few dollars. I think that’s called chaniffa.
Dovid Lichtenstein is a good person. He and his wife are Ba’alei Tzedaka and Gomlei CHessed in so many ways. It is likely that most of the recipients of their chessed don’t know where it’s coming from.
Will the Clintons attend to honor their supporter?
Don’t be a ‘farbissiner nisht farginer’.
David is a great ba’al chessed as well as a Talmid Chochom. Your ignorant cooments are an embarassment.
A wonderful choice and a special honour for Reb Dovid and the Chabad Shluchim
עלו והצליחו
A while ago, David admitted on his Headlines podcast that he never was in 770, and never saw the Lubavitcher Rebbe before he passed away.
Therefore, to compensate for this terrible gap in his upbringing, and to prepare for the upcoming gathering, David should spend a Shabbos in Crown Heights ASAP, davening in 770, referred to by Lubavitchers as בית רבינו שבבבל, where he could soak in the atmosphere of that special place, enjoy the tefillos interlaced with proclamations of יחי וכו along with the multiplicity of signs proclaiming same, and maybe even get a “Rebbe dollar” or two.
He should go immediately to Beis Moshiach-770
followed by a trip to the Ayhel to speak to the Rebbe.
Does someone make a שהחיינו the first time they go to 770, or do they tear קריעה? What about the first time they go to the Ayhel?
1) Shall the Shluchim attending convention have to be vaccinated?
2) Shall the Shluchim attending convention have to wear face masks?
David’s shvigger a’h was first cousins with the Lubavitcher Hecht brothers (R. J.J., Abraham B., etc.), so he is connected to many Shluchim and Chasidim of the Rebbe that way
Oh, okay.
“Lichtenstein is the founder of the Halacha Headlines podcast, in which he invites rabbis and experts on a topic of discussion each week, in Question and Answer style, to work through the halachic nuances of each issue.”
Who supervises the editing of the snippets and sound bites he presents, to make sure that meanings are not distorted or taken out of context?
Has David accepted the Rebbe as Moshiach now, or does he still believe in the Clintons? Or is it Reb Y.Y. Jacobson?