A Crown Heights photographer was at the Independence Day fireworks on the Hudson river in New York City, and captured what he saw.
In addition to each individual’s personal Pan that they would write and read at the graveside of our Rebbe, it is a custom, practiced for many years, for everyone to get together and write a ‘general’ Pan, signed by all participating Chassidim. The Pan was read at the Rebbe’s Tziyun by Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov with tears and a cracked voice.
This is the first year that Gimmel Tammuz falls out on Shabbos in 14 years. As such, the administrators of Ohel Chabad Lubavitch, led by Rabbi Abba Refson, are in a frenzy of preparation for an unprecedented amount of guests who will be spending Shabbos there.
Students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s 7th grade got to let loose in a year end trip of paintball shooting. The boys exhibited maturity and had a blast, so much so that the park staff complimented them.
Hundreds attended the Family Activity Day hosted by the FBI on Eastern Parkway and Kingston Ave. today.
The PTA of Lubavitcher Yeshiva arranged a fun afternoon show with the Twins from France for children in honor of Isru Chag.
In honor of the upcoming Yom Tov of Shavuos, students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s Pre-1A took a ‘field trip’ to Kingston Avenue, where they went to work planting beautiful flowers in the tree beds.
This past Lag Ba’omer, the students of Yeshiva Darchei Menachem were treated to a horseback riding trip, which they all thoroughly enjoyed.
Montreal is one of the few cities which holds a Lag Ba’omer parade regardless of whether it falls out on Sunday or any other day of the week. This year was no exception.
Rabbi Akiva Greenberg, OBM, escorted by his son Pinchos, friends and relatives, was interred in his final resting place in Jerusalem.
This past Wednesday, Bochurim of the Yeshivah Gedolah of Melbourne celebrated Lag B’Omer at the Chabad House of Bentleigh, which is directed by Rabbi Mendel Raskin. The Bochurim were served a barbecue dinner, which was followed by dancing and a Chassidishe Kumzits around the bonfire.
Hashem seemed to have stopped the rain just in time for the Cheder at the Ohel Lag Ba’omer Parade on Thursday morning.
Despite the fact that Lag Ba’omer fell out on a workday, hundreds of Kharkov Jews were able to proudly parade down the busy main streets of Kharkov – Pushkinskaya and Sumskaya St.
Cheering, dancing, laughing… as the Golden Flame cruised along the River Thames, the girls of Lubavitch Senior School in London were entertained and amused by a fantastic series of games and challenges, and of course extremely lively dancing!
The Jewish community in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania had their own Lag Ba’omer Parade and Bonfire, arranged by Yeshiva Beis Menachem in conjunction with Cheder Menachem, the local day school, and Cong. Ohev Tzedek.
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