Erev Pesach: Burning the Chometz
One designated spot to burn chometz was in front of 770, but many residents lit small fires in alleyways around Crown Heights. Our photographer went for a walk.
One designated spot to burn chometz was in front of 770, but many residents lit small fires in alleyways around Crown Heights. Our photographer went for a walk.
Community Rabbis met today with their gentile business partners and negotiated the sale of chometz ahead of Pesach.
Following what has become its yearly tradition, Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street and the Small Wonder Puppet Theater put on an afternoon show for children – complete with lunch – giving some parents a much needed break and a chance to finish up with Pesach preparations.
Inspired by some words said at a Farbrengan this past Shabbos in Melbourne, Australia, it was decided that a Grand Mitzvah Tank Parade be organized to celebrate the Rebbe’s 110th birthday. spontaneous
Today, 11 Nisaan 5772, marks the 110th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. As every year, Chassidim gave the Rebbe a birthday present: 62 Mitzvah tank rolling through New York City, in honor of his 62 years at the helm of the Chabad movement.
Thousands of people packed a Jerusalem cemetery to bid farewell to the victims of Monday’s shooting outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.
Beth Rivkah High School of Montreal, in conjunction with Chaya Mushka Seminary, presented an amazing and truly inspiring production – “Solika Hatzadekes.”
This past Sunday evening, the 17th of Adar, close to 100 men and women, members of the Monsey Chabad community, gathered together to honor Shimon and Devorah Kroll, Baruch Akiva and Rochel Hayman and Avraham and Devorah Hayman for their support of Yeshivas Menachem Mendel Lubavitch of Monsey.
In Oholei Torah, the Siddur Parties continued last week with students from Rabbi Shmuel Benjamin and Rabbi Sruly Edelman classes all receiving their first Siddurim!
More than 1200 men, women and children gathered for an evening of Torah, Tefilla and Tzedaka at the at the Beverly Hills Hotel for the Los Angeles Grand Citywide 30th Siyum HoRambam last week. The “achdus” event, sponsored by West Coast Chabad-Lubavitch and more than 30 local Chabad centers, was the largest such gathering in the history of Jewish Los Angeles.
Several families, headed by the Laine and Kalmenson families, headed out to Ezra House to bring the Purim joy to the elderly.
Photographer and creative artist Levi Teitelbaum joined up with CrownHeights.info photographers and put one of the oldest Hassidic stigmas to use – in good fun – in an epic case of photo-bombing. Can you find Waldo?