Chaim Yehuda ("Yudel") Krinsky (born December 3, 1933, in Boston, Massachusetts)[1] is a rabbi and a leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

In 1988, after Schneerson's wife died, he named Krinsky sole executor of his will, later probated and recorded in New York.

[4] In 1956 Krinsky was invited by Schneerson to join his secretariat, headed by Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov.

[4] Krinsky's position included work on behalf of the Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

[9] From 2007 to 2013,[10] Newsweek magazine compiled an annual list of the fifty most influential rabbis in the United States.