A massive construction crane collapsed onto the Tappen Zee Bridge today, sealing off one of the main links between New York City and the Catskill Mountains upstate. One of our readers spotted a Lubavitcher trying to make the best of a bad situation, by offering those stuck in traffic the chance to put on Tefilin and say a prayer.
In an all-too-rare occurrence, parking is abundant on the streets of Crown Heights today, Sunday, as community members travel upstate to visit their children and siblings at the various summer camps on visiting day.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique pair of photos of the Rebbe visiting Camp Gan Yisroel in the Catskills in the 1950s.
Reb Yisroel Freidman, Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Medrash Oholei Torah, is greeted by staff and campers as he arrives at Yeshiva Kayitz-Kingston for the summer season.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Kalmenson, head of the Chabad Yeshiva in New Haven, CT, shares words of Torah with the Gaaved of Yerushalayim, Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss.
Rabbi Yitzchok Twerski, son of the Skverer Rebbe, dances with renowned educator Rabbi Zalman Leib Markowitz at his son’s wedding in Oholei Torah, along with Chief Rabbi of Russia Rabbi Berel Lazar.
Campers study Mishnayos Baal Peh during color war at Camp Gan Israel in the Catskills. Can you identify anyone in the photo, or what year it was taken?
At 6:20 in the morning, 18 members of the Thornhill, Ontario, Lubavitch community gathered at the Chabad Shul to hear a shiur on the Rebbe’s maamar Hasom Nafsheinu Bachaim, delivered by Rabbi Akiva Wagner, Rosh Yeshiva.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a pair of unique photos of the Rebbe greeting Mr. Zalman Shazar, then President of Israel, in 1966.
This photo of an iconic Crown Heights establishment, offering a full breakfast for $1.75, was taken in the late 1980s. Can you identify it?
Seeing a golfer’s car with the Illinois license plate “ATHEIST” on it, Rabbi Yosef Shmuel Moscowitz of Chabad of Bucktown and Wicker Park in Chicago couldn’t help but reach out.
Ahead of an event where 257 newly minted rabbis will be receiving their ordination, Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau, the former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and the current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv was seen signing Semicha certificates for the last four groups of Morristown, NJ Semicha graduates.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe delivering a Maamar at a Farbrengen in 1970.
Four old friends from their youth in Yeshiva sit together and reminisce at the central Chabad Shul in Montreal: Member of the Vaad Rabonei Chabad in Eretz Yisroel Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Yeruslavsky, and veteran educators Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan, Rabbi Yosef Minkowicz and Rabbi Sholom Leib Aizenbach.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying Shema during Maariv, circa early 1960s.
In honor of the upcoming Yomtov, Crown Heights resident Yossi Newfield has shared with us a never-before-seen picture of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Bracha, which was taken by his father, Dr. Shlomo Newfield, in 1977.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a set of unique photos of the Rebbe getting an Aliyah, circa early 1960s.
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