Photos: Minor Damage Around 3am
Before the real storm settled in, damage was already cropping up around Crown Heights.
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Photos: Over 800 Jews at National Jewish Retreat
Photos by Bentzi Sasson
The highly-anticipated National Jewish Retreat in Greenwich, Connecticut was an unprecedented success, with over 800 Jews from all over the world in attendance.
Friends of Chabad Five Towns Have Kumzitz
Friends of Chabad Five Towns’ Levi Yitzchak Gemilas Chassadim interest free loans fund gathered Wednesday for a kumzitz with Jerusalem musician Chaim Dovid.
Photos: Evergreen Hosts MBD for Exclusive Kumzitz
LOCH SHELDRAKE, NY [CHI] — After spending an uplifting and farbrengen filled Shabbos the residents of Evergreen Estates were treated to an exclusive Kumzitz style performed from Mordechai Ben David accompanied by a full band.
Montreal Junior Anash’s Nachamu Kumzitz
Members of Montreal’s Junior Anash gathered Motzei Shabbos for their annual Shabbos Nachamu Kumzitz Fargbrengen.
Photos: Eicha, Beans and Umbrellas at Oihel Nosson
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Led by Rabbi Shua Brook, mispalelim of Oihel Nosson took to the floors and recited Eicha. Some made light and enthusiastically took to beaning each other, while others brought umbrellas for protection.
Photos: Eicha at Itchke’s Shteibel
Led by Rabbi Chaim Fogelman the mispalelim of Itchkes Shteibel recited Eicha.
All-Stars Clash: Canada Evens Up Vs America
Photos by Dovid Steinahuser
On a bright beautiful Sunday, July 24 the Crown Heights Softball All Stars met the Canadian Softball All Stars in Syracuse, NY to have their annual softball tournament. Canada dominated the New York team in the first game, winning 12 – 0, and swept New York in the following two.
Photos by Meir Alfasi
Dozens of college students took advantage of their summer break to visit Israel with Chabad on Campus' IsraeLinks, completing the second trip this month. Led by scholar in-residence Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, along with Rabbi Yosef and Devora Wilhelm of Chabad of the Upper East Side, IsraeLinks took the enthusiastic students on a thrilling journey filled with fun and meaning.
College Students Enjoy Life-Changing Israel Tour
Photos by Meir Alfasi
Dozens of college students took advantage of their summer break to visit Israel with Chabad on Campus’ IsraeLinks, completing the second trip this month. Led by scholar in-residence Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, along with Rabbi Yosef and Devora Wilhelm of Chabad of the Upper East Side, IsraeLinks took the enthusiastic students on a thrilling journey filled with fun and meaning.
Photos: Visiting Day at YSP Morristown
Photos by Avrohom Perl for yspmorristown.com
As the sweltering heat abated ever so slightly and even go way to a brief thundershower to cool the sun-beaten earth, parents flocked to Morristown to visit their sons in YSP. Uncles, aunts, mothers and fathers came to see first hand the living pudding which is YSP Morristown.
The Writing of the Traveling Shluchim’s Sefer Torah Begins
Photos by Bentzi Sasson
On Daled Tammuz, family and friends of the Teldon’s family gathered at the Crown Heights home of Rabbi Binyomin and Leah Klein to begin the writing of a Sefer Torah in memory of their son, Boruch Nissan. Like Boruch, his Torah too, will be unique. The Torah is slated to travel around the world to aid Shluchim in their fledgling communities that cannot yet afford a Torah of their own.
New Torah Completed Two Years After Chabad House Robbery
On Gimmel Tammuz there was a Siyum Sefer Torah held for a Torah written in memory of Rabbi Tzvi Yosef Kotlarsky OBM by his children and grandchildren in conjunction with Chabad of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
As the day progresses, thousands make their way to the Rebbe's Ohel to mark his 17th yohrtzeit. Lines extended at times all the way down Francis Lewis Boulevard.
Photos: Pan Kloli and a Steady Stream of Visitors
As the day progresses, thousands make their way to the Rebbe’s Ohel to mark his 17th yohrtzeit. Lines extended at times all the way down Francis Lewis Boulevard.
Sefer Torah Dedicated in M.M. Moshiach’s Memory
Avner Moshiach dancing with the Torah, written in memory of his son Menachem Mendel OBM (inset).
Four years ago, thirteen-year-old Menachem Mendel Moshiach passed away, just a few weeks shy of his eighth grade graduation. Today, Gimmel Tammuz, his family and Crown Heights residents welcomed a new Sefer Torah which was written in his memory.
Photos: Gimmel Tammuz at the Ohel – 2:00am
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — As night fell, the steady stream of people coming to visit the Ohel, the Rebbe’s resting place, increased. In the tent, Yungelite; Bochurim; Anash and Shluchim were seen learning and Farbrenging together, and the occasional head was down on the table asleep.
Photos: Ohel Prepares for the Thousands of Visitors
Tens of thousands of people from around the world and all walks of life will converge on the Ohel tonight and tomorrow, marking Gimmel Tammuz the day of the passing of the Rebbe. Feverish preparations are underway to accommodate the masses.
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