Picture of the Day! The Shluchos Group Picture!
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More pictures in the Extended Article!
Note that under each picture there is a link to enlarge them, for your viewing pleasure.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
As a sneak preview of the Historic Jubilee Journal being prepared for the upcoming Oholei Torah Dinner, CrownHeights.info obtained this rare photo of one of the first classes of Oholei Torah with Reb Yisroel Meir Munitz o”h.
Readers are welcome to try and identify those in the picture using the comment system!
We hope to bring you more glimpses of the past we get closer to the Dinner. For your convenience the faces are numbered making it easier to identify. For more information on the Dinner go to www.oholeitorah.com
Charlie is one figure always seen around Crown Heights in his overalls and Yarmulka covered in a wide assortment of Buttons, and seen sometimes in a tuxedo. This time he said it was for the 13th annual dinner of the NJOP in the Waldorf Astoria.
In the picture: A Shomrim member giving a stalled police car a boost.
Rabbi Binyamin Jacobs Head Shliach to the Netherlands and the director of Lubavitch of the Netherlands speaking with Beatrix van Oranje The queen of the Netherland at a ceremony for 25 years of leadership of the queen last Wednesday.
Dr. Tzvi Lang, Vice Chairman of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council meets with Congressman Charles Rangel of New York. Congressman Rangel is the Chair of the most powerful committee in the US Congress, the Ways and Means Committee. This committee controls all federal tax powers and oversees hundreds of federal programs. Congressman Rangel is also the Dean of the New York State Congressional Delegation.
Dr. Lang represented the Crown Heights community at a Jewish leadership breakfast honoring Mr. Rangel.
The first snow fall in Crown Heights this year wasn’t much and didn’t really last long before turning into sleet.
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Amish Family on the oversized Shabbos table at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
(L-R) R. Shmuly Gutnick Youth Director of Chabad of Boca Raton, FL, R. Moishe Denburg Shliach to Boca Raton, FL, R. Zalman Bukiet Shliach to West Boca Raton, FL and Member a member of local Anash R. Mendy Schurder.
The Rebbes Mazkir R. Leibel Groner and Mashpia R. Shloime Zarchi At the home of Rabbi Shmuel Heber who is sitting shiva after the passing of his father R. Yisroel Tzvi Heber A”H who passed away this week in Kfar Chabad.
The picture taken at the Kinus HaShluchim group picture is entitled “Bewhiskered Gathering”, an odd way of calling a group full of Rabbi’s. there are 13 pictures in this collection, readers can vote for them.
In the Time Magazines weekly “Pictures of the Week” gallery a picture entitled “A Face In The Crowd” taken at the Kinus Hashluchim Group picture was one of 8 selected. Go and view the picture at the magazines website and select it as the best of the 8!
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In the picture the Rebbe is giving out nickels at a Tzivos Hashem Rally in 770 in the year 1982.
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Rabbi Chaim Miller supervises the printing of the single-volume Gutnick Chumash “Synagogue Edition,” to be launched at the upcoming Kinus Hashluchim