Students and faculty members of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Kiryat Gat, Israel pose for a year-end group portrait outside their Yeshiva’s building. Seated in the front row from left to right: Rabbi Yonah Yakobovitch, magid shiur b’niglah; Rabbi Moshe Havlin, Rosh Yeshiva; Rabbi Zusha Alperowits, mashpia and magid shiur b’chasidus.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique collection of photos of the Rebbe attending children’s rallies in the years 5717 (1957) and 5723 (1963). With special thanks to Rabbi Harlig and Rabbi Levin.
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Students of Yeshiva Gedolah in Melbourne, Australia pose for a year-end group portrait outside their Yeshiva’s building – a magnificent structure which used to belong to the British royal family.
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A reader sent us this photo of a huge billboard on the Manhattan-bound BQE highway. It says, “Fellow Jew, You’re Going into a Danger Zone; Shield Your Eyes.”
Rabbi Mendel Jacobs, Rabbi of the Shul in the Park in Glasgow, Scotland, officiated at the wedding of David McGraddie and Leslie Goldinger, a Jewish couple who decided to have a traditional Chuppa and Kidushin despite their old age. Under the Chuppah, the groom wore a talis with the traditional Scottish Tartan fabric woven into the ‘Crown.’
A Crownheights.info reader sent us this beautiful photo he snapped near his Crown Street home yesterday. Interestingly, the rainbow appeared despite the fact that it did not rain at all that day.
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique collection of photos from Israeli President Shazar’s visit to the Rebbe in 1966.
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Students and faculty members of Yeshivas Darchei Menachem in Crown Heights pose for a group portrait outside their Rutland Rd. institution.
A popular Israeli singer was spotted studying with a few Kvutzeh Bochurim in 770. This singer is a close friend of many in the Chabad community. He composed a song in honor of the Rebbe titled “Menorah.” Can you identify him?
Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of seven Chassidim posing for a portrait. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Brooklyn South Police District chief Thomas Chan and 71st precinct captain John Lewis were spotted today enjoying lunch in Crown Heights’ Hamilton-Metz (Lefferts) Park, as the NYPD sponsored Harmony Day parade proceeded down Empire Blvd.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a collection of Photos from Yud Shvat 5724 and Yud Tes Kislav 5723.
Newser.com picked up on the Reuters story about an Israeli firm that is mining for diamonds near Haifa based on the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s prophetic words, along with a featured photo and caption on the side. Can you figure out what is wrong with the picture?
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique collection of photos of the Rebbe standing by the Torah over the years.
In spite of discrepancies over the invitation of the Lubavitch community to the Citi Field internet gathering, the Rabbonim of the Crown Heights Beis Din attended and were assigned seats of honor at the dais. Seen in these photographs from Yeshiva World News are Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba (partially obstructed) and Rabbi Shlomo Segal.
On today’s date, 28 Iyar, in 1967, Israeli forces liberated Har Habyis in the Miraculous Six-Day War. Masses of Jews thronged to the Western wall, which had been off limits for 19 years. Seen in this photograph is Rabbi Zushe Dvortz, of Kfar Chabad, awaiting his turn to enter the narrow passage that still separated the wall from an adjacent row of houses.
The NYPD Command Post vehicle, stationed on Albany Ave. near Lubavitcher Yeshiva, found itself in need of an electrical boost to get its engine started. Perhaps they should have called Shomrim..
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