Nosson Schlanger Receives Standing Ovation at Chabad Conference Tribute to His Father

Nosson Schlanger received a standing ovation on Sunday, November 8, when he addressed the annual Chabad World Shluchim Conference in a tribute to his father, Rabbi Eli Schlanger. His father, a Chabad emissary, was killed in last year's Hanukkah terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Australia. Before Nosson entered, participants watched a film recorded in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he studies in yeshiva. He described the daily practices and values he learned from his father. “The biggest thing I learned from my father is how much happiness there is in being the Rebbe’s shaliach,” Nosson said in the film, using the Hebrew word for an emissary. The audience rose and applauded as he came onstage. Nosson recalled accompanying his father on visits to people's homes and his father's encouragement that he was already an emissary himself. His grandfather, Rabbi Yehoram Ulman of Sydney, joined him, embraced him and expressed pride in his continuation of his father's mission. The Sunday evening banquet gathered more than 6,500 Chabad emissaries and guests at a convention center in New Jersey. Ambassadors, mayors, Jewish leaders, business executives and supporters of Chabad’s worldwide emissary network were among the participants. Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, was the banquet’s keynote speaker.