Harav Nachman Schapiro came to Menachem Avel Harav hadayan, Hagoan Shmuel Felder of Lakewood and left a set of set מנחם ציון – a sefer on the Rebbe’s שיחות, מכתבים , and visits of ניחום אבלים. Rav Felder’s sister is Mrs. Bina Cunin of Crown Heights.
The Lechaim was one of the first publications out there to be published weekly and taken by thousands of bochurim every Friday on mivtzoyim. In an ultimate historic throwback, here is a picture of the first weeks edition.
Rabbi Braun, Rabbi Kassimov, and Rabbi Raichik being menachem avel Hagoan Harav Hadayan Shmuel Felder of Bais Din of Lakewood, brother of Mrs. Bina Cunin of Crown Heights. Their mother, Rebbitzen Chaya Felder passed away at 102 last Tuesday. Senator Simcha Felder and Harav Chaim Moshe of Lakewood are sitting shiva as well.
Today, on the 12th of Cheshvan, we all read in Sefer HaTanya part of the letter that the Alter Rebbe wrote to console the chassidim after the histalkus of R’ Menachem Mendel Horodoker in Tiveria, Eretz Yisroel. A letter that we in our time and generation take courage from.
At the annual Minyon tent by the New York City Marathon, Lubavitcher Yisroel Davidson wrapped Tefillin on a 77-year-old man who has ever before put ion tefillin. It is also the Bar Mitzvah mans only second marathon.
Sign on Kingston thanks the Crown Heights community. Hundreds of families in Crown Heights are preparing to open their homes to host more than 1,500 people who are joining the Chabad on Campus Pegisha Shabbaton this weekend. Groups of college students from around the world will be coming together with their Shluchim & Shluchos for an inspiring Shabbos of connection and inspiration.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice-Chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, was honored under the Chuppah of Chazzan Yitzchok Meir Helfgot’s daughter at the Eminence Hall in Brooklyn last night. He was accompanied by his son Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky, Executive Director of Merkos 302, and was spotted in deep conversation with Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Senior Rabbi of the historic Park East Synagogue, where Helfgot is Chief Cantor.
This foggy Tuesday morning was captured by Crown Heights resident and photographer Shmuli Evers in this stunning image taken on Eastern Parkway.
More than 675 boys from Oholei Torah in Crown Heights spent time on Sukkos doing Mivtza Lulav, and have provided an incredible mosaic of images showing their hard work in Nachas to the Rebbe.
Crown Heights resident and photographer Shmuli Evers captured this stunning image of a sunset in the background of a very Crown Heights landscape.
A group of special Crown Heights boys used their day off to help clean up the front of Shain’s Shul on Kingston Ave after a week of epic Simchas Beis Hashoeva.
A new Sefer from Kohot Publishing House made its debut in the Sefer Display in the from foyer of 770. Piskei Dinim from the Mitteler Rebbe on the Shulchan Arush, Even Ezer and Yoreh Deiah.
Shliach to Cordoba Argentina, Rabbi Yossi Turk, was seen shechting kaporos outside the Central Chabad House of the city.
Bochurim helping Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim during their annual fundraiser to help the Rebbe’s guests over Tishrei.
James Edward Franco, an American actor and filmmaker, made headlines once again thanks to an encounter with a Chabad bochur. Unaware who Franco was, Yossi Farro had been on a mission to put on tefillin with Jews when they stumbled upon each other. After convincing him to put on tefillin and grab an unsuspecting selfie, Farro walked off, only to be asked if it was really James Franco…..
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw shared an picture on her Social Media of Rabbi Yosef Konokov of Chabad of South Orlando, as he carried a neighbors child in Kissimmee, writing “One of countless brave Floridians stepping up in our state’s time of need”.
The red sunset which turned the sky of New York City into a dream Thursday night sent photographers and residents scrambling for their cameras and phones. This image was submitted to CrownHeights.info, and was captured from the top of a Crown Heights building.
