Kinus Banquet Photos 4: Keynote Speaker
Pictures by Shmuli Evers and Binyomin Lifshitz
Pictures by Shmuli Evers and Binyomin Lifshitz
Pictures by Shmuli Evers and Binyomin Lifshitz
Pictures of tables A though G on the banquet floor.
Pictures by Chaim Perl
The first gallery from the Kinus Hashluchim Galla Banquet. Last minute preparations and guests arriving.
Pictures by Shmuli Evers and Binyomin Lifshitz
The folks at Ohel took a huge gamble when they decided to stage a concert and keep the lineup top secret. Were people really going to spend big bucks to come to a show without knowing who the performers would be? The answer, apparently, was yes, as Mason Hall at the Baruch Performing Arts Center was completely sold out for the annual benefit concert.
MONSEY, NY [CHI] — The boys in Monsey Cheder Chabad’s Kita Aleph began learning Chumash this week for the very first time!
This Friday, 14th of Cheshvan, marks the birthday of the highly esteemed, well respected and beloved maggid shiur in Oholei Torah Zal, Reb Avrohom Gerlitzky. There has been a tradition for many years that on his birthday, his talmidim make it a special day, a highlight in the Oholei Torah calendar. This year was no exception.
Photographer Itsik Roytman captured the sights, sounds — and smells (!) of this year’s Kosherfest, the world’s largest kosher products trade event, which took place across the Hudson River in Secaucus, New Jersey. Among the participants were many Kosher food purveyors from Crown Heights, as well as Israel’s Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger.
Today, Melbourne welcomed its newest group of student Shluchim to the Rabbinical College of Australia & NZ (Yeshivah Gedolah of Melbourne).
Pictures from the wedding of Michoel Shapiro (White Plains, NY) and Chava Zviklin (Newtown, PA) which took place Sunday in Livingston, NJ.
Over 1,000 students exited Oholei Torah in order to attend the funeral of Reb Moshe Abelsky, their beloved and devoted bus driver. From there the entire school escorted the procession to 770, where hundreds more waited to escort the deceased chossid.
Tsfat’s Otzar HaStam followed the inspiration and energy of Yom Kippur this year by hosting a grand ceremony to celebrate the start of two new sefer Torahs. The Torah scrolls, which will be written by two expert sofrim from local anash, also marked the general launch of writing for Otzar HaStam’s stock of high-quality retail safrus.
Over 1000 people partook in the ‘second Hakafos’ at the Ma’arat Hamachpelah in Chevron, organized by local Shliach Rabbi Danny Cohen.
A special energy radiated from the fullest crowd of the week, who danced non-stop knowing that this would be the last Simchas Beis Hashoevah of this year. At around 12:45am the crowd marched their way up Kingston Ave. to 770, where they recited the entire Tehillim as customary.
Hundreds turned out for Simchas Beis Hashueva in Crown Heights with lively music lasting into the night accompanied by Eli Marcus and Benny Friedman.
The Monsey Chabad community held a Simchas Beis Hashuevah in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul last night, children were treated to an entertaining show and danced with their fathers into the night.