Thousands joined Chabad of Antwerp Belgium, run by Rabbi Shabtai Slavatizki, for a Lag B’Omer parade that traveled through the streets of the city. The parade included marching bands, and entertainment for the children.
A project of Chabad of Park Heights and Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore, students from Darchei Noam Montessori, Cheder Chabad and Jewels Inclusive School, joined together at Police Academy Fields for a fun-filled Lag B’Omer Unity Event.
Despite predictions of heavy rain yesterday, over 2,500 men, women, and children attended the largest annual Lag Ba’omer festival in Brooklyn, at Chabad of Georgetown organized by Shliach Rabbi Avraham Holtzberg.
A large crowd came to bid farewell at the levaya of Berel Raskin OBM. Berel, known fondly as Berke, was an icon of the Crown Heights community, and world renowned for his deeds and accomplishments.
Every Jew is a gem, and some people have a knack for finding gems. This Chassid found a group of nuns and monks visiting the Kever of David, and zeroed in on one particular monk, asking him if he was Jewish. The rest can be seen in the photo.
We present a photo gallery from the bonfire lighting at the central Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow. The lighting was attended by the Chief Rabbi of Russia Rabbi Berel Lazar, and special guest Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg. The bonfire was followed with a Chassidic farbrengen.
The viewing of the Rebbe’s Lag B’omer parade on Wednesday for Crown Heights schoolchildren and their parents outside 770 was a smashing success.
An explosion on a busy street in the French city of Lyon wounded seven people on Friday evening, local officials said, according to The Associated Press.
A Jewish man was sent to the hospital Thursday, after an altercation spilled from a subway car onto the platform of the Franklin Ave Subway station. The man was treated by Hatzalah and taken to the hospital.
When Rabbi Ovadia and Nechoma Goldman came to town in 1998, they were told Oklahoma City was reform country. “Nice thought, but you won’t last long here,” was the polite yet clear message. The couple, then in their twenties, was not deterred. Today, two decades later, the community is united around their presence.
The United Hatzalah convention being hosted by Magen David Adom in Israel had a chancve to hear from Rabbi Shlomo Amar, and participated in an international Role Call.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe during Kos Shel Bracha.
A Chabad House in Staten Island and a neighboring Yeshiva were defaced overnight Wednesday, with anti Semitic graffiti and slurs. The Police are investigating the incident as a Hate Crime.
Just in time for Lag B’omer, the Living Archive is pleased to publish new photos from 5 different collections. The archival team has been hard at work with the latest collections received, and the new Lag B’omer photos have just been scanned, restored and cataloged. Here we present over 400 new photos from the 5 collections of Gershon Schusterman, Yossi Goldstein, Shmuel Rivkin, Velvel Schildkraut and Avraham Slavin.
Gallery 2: A Parade of Children made their way through Crown Heights Thursday for Lag B’Omer. Marching bands and Floats led the way to a grand Rally at the park on Rutland Rd and Albany Ave.
A Parade of Children made their way through Crown Heights Thursday for Lag B’Omer. Marching bands and Floats led the way to a grand Rally at the park on Rutland Rd and Albany Ave.
Cheder Lubavitch Morristown marched through the streets of Morristown New Jersey, marching band and all, in a successful Lag B’Omer Parade.
