The Kahan family poses for a portrait, circa early 1950s. To the right is a young Reb Yoel Kahan, later to become the Rebbe’s chief Chozer. Standing next to him is his father, Reb Foleh Kahan, a survivor of Stalin’s Gulags, where he spent 10 years for the crime of practicing Yiddishkeit in the Soviet Union, and his sister, Mrs. Gitta Gansburg. Sitting in front is his mother, Mrs. Rivkah Kahan.
The committee and coordinators of The Great Lag BaOmer Parade gathered last night at Chagall Bistro in Park Slope, to acknowledge the people responsible for the hard work and dedication put in to this year’s parade.
In his Psalms, King David refers to 70 years as a lifetime. In that case, Rabbi Dovid Edelman, 89, is currently marking a lifetime as an emissary of two Lubavitcher Rebbes, educating Jewish children since the summer of 1944.
After skyrocketing to the top of both the Amazon and Barnes & Noble best-seller lists and completely selling out its first printing almost before it went on sale on June 10, Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History debuted on The New York Times bestseller list for the week of June 29.
As reported previously on CrownHeights.info, Rinat Dray, a Lubavitcher mother of three, is suing Staten Island University Hospital and two of its doctors for allegedly forcing her to undergo a C-section against her will. CBS’s This Morning show interviewed the mother, her lawyer and others for a segment on the contentious incident.
Yesterday, the Jewish community of Borough Park celebrated the wedding of the son of Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, HYD – one of the six Kedoshim who were murdered by terrorists at the Chabad Center in Mumbai, India in November, 2008.
The graduating students of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in Brunoy, France posed for a group portrait outside the Yeshiva’s campus in the outskirts of Paris today.
Fox 5 News did a video profile of the all-female Orthodox Jewish EMT volunteers corps Ezras Nashim, which formally launched yesterday (Tuesday) in Borough Park.
Over 100 members of the Jewish community of Western Monmouth County, New Jersey gathered last night at the local Chabad Center for an evening of prayer and unity on behalf of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers.
Over 100 members of the Crown Heights community gathered last night, Tuesday, in front of the Jewish Children’s Museum to take a stand on behalf of the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists last week.
Camp Gan Israel in the Poconos has released the names of the four capable and experienced young women who will be leading the new and popular girls’ camp this summer.
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