Chaim Yehuda ("Yudel") Krinsky (born December 3, 1933, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an ordained rabbi and a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. He has served in various positions of the movement's administrative staff since 1954, and as a personal secretary to its chief rabbi, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (along with Yehuda Leib Groner and Binyomin Klein), And serves as chairman of the movement's main institutions. In 1988, after the passing of his wife, Chaya Mushka Schneerson, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe named Krinsky an executor of his will. As of 2004, Krinsky was among the most influential figures within the Chabad movement. Biography Krinsky grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and was educated at the Boston Latin School. At the age of 12, he was sent by his parents to study at the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brooklyn, where he received his rabbinic ordination. He joined the Lubavitcher Rebbe's staff in 1952 as a driver. Activities In 1956 Krinsky was invited by Rabbi Schneerson to join his secretariat, then headed by Rabbi Mordechai Aizik Hodakov. Krinsky's position included work on behalf of the Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. At that time, Schneerson also appointed Krinsky to direct the Lubavitch News Service. In this capacity, he was in charge of disseminating the Rebbe's talks around the world via satellite. In 1972, Rabbi Shneerson appointed Krinsky to serve on the administrative boards of the movement's umbrella organization, Agudas Chasidei Chabad, and it's educational arm, Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch. In 1990, Rabbi Schneerson selected Krinsky to serve as the official secretary of the movement's three central organizations, Agudas Chasidei Chabad, Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, and Machneh Israel, the movement's social services arm. Today, Krinsky serves as Chairman of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch and Machne Israel, secretary of Agudas Chasidei Chabad, and director of the Kehot Publication Society. Family Krinsky married Devorah Kasinetz, daughter of Rabbi Zev and Ethel Kasinetz. Their children are: Rabbi Levi Krinsky, director of Chabad of New Hampshire Rabbi Hillel David Krinsky, who is married to Shterna Sarah Garelik, daughter of Rabbi Gershon Mendel Garelik, Chief Chabad Emissary of Milan, Italy. And is the founder of Jewish Educational Media. Menachem Mendel Krinsky, who is married to Miriam Turner of Chicago Rabbi Shmaya Krinsky, who is married to Rivkah Gutnick, daughter of Australian commodities magnate Joseph Gutnick Sheine B. Krinsky, who is married to Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman, associate director