The Bochurim learning in Kvutseh this year pose for a group picture in front of 770.
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As part of the Bais Rivkah Float R. Shimshon Stock OB”M would bring a goat and keep it around for the enjoyment of those that participated, the parade would then conclude at the park on Maple St between Troy and Schenectady and everyone was treated to a variety of attractions, among those was the goat who would stick around with Shimshon and entertain the children.
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R. Yonason Hackner schlepping more speakers for the parade.
In 1984 (23 years ago) parade organizers applied for a permit from the 71st Precinct to shut down Empire Boulevard from Brooklyn Avenue all the way down to Troy Avenue and a stated attendance of 5000 people. Needless to say that the application was approved by none other then our Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, who at the time served as the Deputy Inspector in command of our 71st Precinct.
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Mendy Pelin from Chabad Tube doing an interview for an episode of the Chabad Weekly News Cast.
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Students at Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown St. practicing their drumming routine which they will be doing while marching in this years parade.
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Preparing the facade of 770 for the Lag Baomer Parade!
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In the picture is Mendy Rimler (Center) who learns in the 5th Grade in Oholei Torah Elementry School. He is carrying home a ‘Shtender’, with the help of a fellow classmate, that he built in the woodwork class in the after school program.
A delegation of Lubavitch from the US shown here with survivors and officers sometime in 1947, at the Poking DP camp in Germany. Hundreds of Chabad Chasidim were interned in the camp, which openend in January 1946 and reached its maximum of 7,645 Jewish inhabitants on October 19, 1946. It had several Talmud Torahs with more than 200 pupils, as well as a Lubavitcher and a Klausenburger Yeshiva with a combined 500 pupils. The camp closed on February 16, 1949.
In the picture: Brooklyn Borough President Mr. Marty Markowitz (L) wearing a Crown Heights Softball League baseball cap with the league commissioner Zevi Steinhauser.
Mr. Markowitz told Zevi that he was happy to hear that such a league exists in Crown Heights, and he said that only in Crown Heights will you hear of such a thing. He thanked Zevi for the cap and told him that he will add it to his famous cap collection which he keeps on display in his office.
In the picture: Shlomo Lehrer in Kingston Pizza is taking out a ready pie of pizza on Motzoai Yom Tov.
In the picture: Yossel Mochkin in the Kerchme Pizzah Shop is putting a pie of pizza in the oven on Motzoai Yom Tov.
San Francisco, CA — Rabbi Potash, holding his 4-year-old son, Yakov Potash, greets guests as they seat themselves for the Passover seder dinner at the Chabad Jewish Center in San Francisco on Monday. Chronicle photo by Katy Raddatz
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The Bochurim that were sent to Russia as part of Merkos Shlichus, by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Merkos Linyonai Chinuch, and Rabbi Berel Lazar from the Russian federation, to make Sedorim in over 30 cities, are posing with the project coordinator Rabbi Yosef Plotkin.
In honor of Yuf Alef Nissan, the Rebbes birthday we are please to publish this picture for the very first time with our thanks to Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum for sending us this picture.
The picture was taken on Vov Thisray 1965 at the Rebbes mother, Rebbetzin Chana’s A”H Levaya. It was taken in the Montefiore Cemetery in Queens.
In the photo, R. Shimshon Stock collecting money for Chevreh Simchas Shabos VeYomtov (CSSY) while climbing over benches in 770.
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