Picture of the Day
Mt. Rushmore, resplendent with its carved faces of presidents, just wouldn’t be the same without its Menorah.
Mt. Rushmore, resplendent with its carved faces of presidents, just wouldn’t be the same without its Menorah.
Zos Chanukah is an auspicious day, and in Venice, Italy, it was celebrated as such. This photo is of the Chanukah Menorah lighting in Venice, the final one for this year.
Welcome to Chabad of Antarctica the (future) home of Chabad on the seventh continent. Expeditionist and banking executive Scott Shay wrote the on his Instagram the reason he decided to create this banner, and how the Kinus Hashluchim was his inspiration.
Crown Heights takes the house at the RCCS Annual Hockey Tournament taking place in South Florida today, with three Crown Heights legends. Crown Heights native and Shomrim volunteer Nathan Rieber (right) poses with Fishy Vail (center), another Crown Heights Shomrim volunteer, and Eli Bryski (left), a Hatzalah volunteer whose impact was felt in nearly every Crown Heights home during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
At the International Kinus Hashluchim, the Young Shluchim from across the globe also participated in their own Kinus. Here is the official Kinus Tzeurei Hashluchim “Young Shluchim” Annual photo.
Rain didn’t dampen the Simcha felt at today’s Hachnasas Sefer Torah procession in memory of Reb Aron Baitz OBM which took place in Crown Heights. This image captures the moments as the procession turned from Empire Blvd to Brooklyn Ave on its way to Aliyah on East New York.
The Shluchim of Northern California gathered Thursday for a regional Kinus and Farbrengen with Rabbi Shusterman as the guest farbranger.
The new ODA office on East New York Ave in Crown Heights has just received a nod from the city, with the addition of a “No Standing Zone” from 8am to Midnight in front of their location. The No Standing Zone will allow for easier drop off and pick up at the office.
Thousands of Shluchim pose for the annual group photo outside Chabad World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway.
As residents and Shluchim rushed around the Shchuna Friday afternoon, a group of Shluchim were coming together for a personal moment at the Kinus Hashluchim. The Shluchim of Yerushalayim stood outside 770 for their own annual picture.
A second bike rack for the CitiBike program has arrived in Crown Heights, with this second one being installed on the Eastern Parkway service lane near the corner of Troy Ave.
Craig, aged 74, a leader with the FEMA task force stopped by Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida and left receiving the Jewish name Moshe, and putting on Teffilin for the first time in his life with Shliach Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz.
Rabbi Braun of the Crown Heights Beis Din taught at the Kollel Binyamin Hakohen in Anshei Lubavitch of Crown Heights.
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.