AI Events for Shlichus, 2025 to 2026
A dated list of the AI-for-shlichus events from the November 2025 Kinus AI Day to the AI track at the Kinus Hashluchim starting November 4, 2026, with links to every recording.
In one year the AI for Shlichus group went from a single AI Day at the Kinus to a regular webinar series, a weekly newsletter, and an AI track at the next Kinus. This page lists the events in order with their recordings. Dates come from the group's own announcements and the recording upload dates; Hebrew dates are added where they help.
All recordings are on the Webinars page. They are also published as a podcast on Spotify (since late July 2026, weekly-06) and Apple Podcasts (since August 2026, weekly-07).
The list
| Date | Event | Recording or page |
|---|---|---|
| Thu, Nov 13, 2025 (22 Cheshvan 5786) | AI Day at the Kinus Hashluchim, Brooklyn. Workshops, a panel of shluchim, and the launch of ShluchimExchange.ai. | Kinus AI Day, November 2025 |
| Feb 20 to Mar 3, 2026 | The Megillah app sprint. Shluchim built and tested a synchronized Megillah reading app in the ten days before Purim (March 3, 2026). A separate builders group formed during it. | The Megillah App Sprint |
| Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 1:30 pm ET | AI 101 webinar, with Merkos 302. The basics, the first levels of using AI, and an AI and Torah presentation. Chosen by a group poll in February. | AI 101 |
| Sun, Apr 26, 2026 (9 Iyar) | Vibecoding webinar, "from idea to live app," taught by a shliach who builds Torah apps. A shliach abroad built a Shabbos-times app for his country's zones after watching it. | Vibecoding |
| Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 1 pm ET (6 Tammuz) | AI Agents webinar. Agents that take admin work off your plate, and how Hermes, NanoClaw and GabAI compare. The newsletter called the replay "Can AI replace my VA?" | AI Agents |
| Jun 30, 2026 | AI session at the UK Kinus Hashluchim. A group admin was one of two invited AI speakers; a UK rabbi built his first app on Replit after it. | Report in the Jewish Chronicle |
| Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 1 pm ET (12 Av) | Connectors and Plugins webinar. Making ChatGPT and Claude more useful with the tools you already use, including the ChabadOne connector. The Zoom confirmation emails failed, so the link was posted in the group when it started. | Supercharge Your AI with Connectors and Plugins |
| Late August 2026 | "Is AI Your Boss, or Your Employee?", a talk at Beis Rivkah on managing AI the way you manage staff. Recording posted August 27. | Is AI Your Boss, or Your Employee?, weekly-10 |
| From Nov 4, 2026 (24 Cheshvan 5787) | AI track at the Kinus Hashluchim, the week of Parshas Chayei Sarah. Workshop registration is on the Kinus site. The organizers said in October that sessions would be marked beginner or advanced. | Kinus workshop registration, weekly-16 |
Not run by the group, but shared in it: Anthropic's own webinar for nonprofits, Claude for Nonprofits: Moving your workflow beyond chat (posted in the group on May 5, 2026).
What grew up around the events
- The ChabadLabs Weekly. A weekly newsletter since July 2026, with the news, a dvar Malchus, tips and a webinar replay in each issue. Archive: Newsletter. Members said it was where they first heard of tools like Wispr Flow.
- The ChabadLabs App Store (August 2026, weekly-07), a directory of apps shluchim built with AI: Apps.
- The AIFS WhatsApp Community (September 2026, weekly-11), with separate groups for beginners, agents, creative work, and Torah and content, next to the main groups and the shluchos group. See Shluchos Use Cases.
- Requests from local kinusim. In July 2026 a regional kinus asked the group for a local speaker on practical AI, and a yeshivah administrators' gathering heard a session on AI and mesorah.
A ChabadLabs Promptathon announced in September 2026 for the Kinus was cancelled on October 14, 2026.
Before you go to a session
- Bring one task you do every week, so you leave with something specific to try.
- Watch AI 101 first if you are new. Several later sessions assume it.
- Ask your questions during the session if the format allows. A common complaint about the 2025 workshops was that questions were held to the end.