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Member of the Canadian Parliament Michael Levitt proudly puts on Tefilin with Rabbi Yirmi Cohen at the Walk with Israel rally in Toronto on Sunday.
Member of the Canadian Parliament Michael Levitt proudly puts on Tefilin with Rabbi Yirmi Cohen at the Walk with Israel rally in Toronto on Sunday.
The above photo was taken by Chevron Shliach Rabbi Danny Cohen in the Me’aras Hamechpela last week, where he and another community member sat down one morning to study Chasidus.
Rabbi Yossi Overlander helps a young volunteer battling the BDS movement wrap Tefilin in the main assembly of the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
On Friday, the morning after his Bar Mitzvah, Shimi Goldstein of Crown Heights returned to his regular Mivtzoim route in Long Island, where he rose to the challenge of helping a fellow Jew perform the Mitzvah of Tefilin.
On Friday, May 27, Mr. Harry Triguboff was officially named the richest man in Australia by the Business Review Weekly. As he does every Friday, Rabbi Dovid Slavin, director of Our Big Kitchen, visited Mr. Triguboff in his Sydney office to deliver fresh Challah for Shabbos. This week, however, the Challah was braided in a unique shape to celebrate the occasion.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique collection of photos of the Rebbe at the 1987 Lag Ba’omer Parade.
In honor of Memorial Day, Shliach and Air Force Chaplain Capt. Elie Estrin, along with Capt. Ari Wood of the U.S. Army and Lt. Commander Greg Touchton of the U.S. Navy, place flags and pray at the graves of military veterans in Seattle, Washington, in a program sponsored by the local chapter of Jewish War Veterans and co-sponsored by various Jewish communal groups.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a pair of photos of the Rebbe during a Lag Ba’omer Parade in the 1970s.
Rabbi Mendy Kaplan, Director of Chabad at Flamingo in suburban Toronto and a Chaplain in the local Police Force, was honored to deliver a blessing at the York Regional Police badging ceremony in which 30 new officers were sworn in to duty.
Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Horowitz, renowned Posek and author of bestselling works on Halacha Shevach Yakar and Shevach Hamoadim, delivers a Shiur to the Talmidim Hashluchim in the Chabad Yeshiva of Sydney, Australia, while visiting the city.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe davening Maariv, circa early 1960s.
The annual Victory Day parade in Moscow this year commemorated 71 years since Russia’s victory over Nazi Germany. On a special podium in the Red Square, they sat side by side. Two revolutionaries. The Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, and the former president of the USSR, Mr. Michael Gorbachev.
The Chabad Shluchim to the countries of East Asia are currently gathered for a regional Kinus in Bangkok, Thailand. This morning, they posed for a group portrait, along with Merkos Vice-Chairman Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky.
Chabad Shliach and activist Rabbi Yaakov Gloiberman, director of the organization Yad B’Yad, met with Israel’s highest-ranking police officer, Inspector General Roni Alshich, with whom he shared a warm embrace.
Last week the executive Vaad of Kinus Hashluchim had their first meeting to start planning the 5777 Kinus that will be taking place some seven months from now.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique pair of photos of the Rebbe during yechidus, circa 1970s.
A special mitzvah, which can be fulfilled only once a year, is to recite a brachah upon seeing a fruit tree in bloom. A group of Beis Rivkah Pre-1a students went out to make the blessing on an apple and cherry tree! Plus: Locations of fruit trees in Crown Heights.