Legendary Mashpia Reb Mendel Futerfas sits with several students at Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Kfar Chabad, Israel. Can you identify anyone else in the photo, or what year it was taken?
Sitting in the Kolel in 770, Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, the Moro D’asro of Crown Heights met with Mark, the Gentile to whom he sold the Chometz on behalf of the residents of Crown Heights.
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, dean and spiritual leader of the Chabad Yeshiva Centre in Sydney, Australia, sold the community’s Chametz today to the Honorable David Clarke, MLC, member of the NSW Parliament.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe in a Yechidus with the two Israeli Chief Rabbis, Rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Avraham Shapira, 1989. Two years earlier, the Rebbe encouraged the chief rabbis to conduct large public seders, “There is a need to make an effort that all four children should sit at the Seder table, including those that the entire year are far from observing anything Jewish.”
Two Lubavitcher Bochrim have combined over 1,500 of their own Mivtzoim encounters into an amazing collage depicting a portrait of the Rebbe.
Rabbi Yirmi Cohen of Toronto, together with his two children Mendy and Chaya, visited the office of Canada’s oldest Jewish Member of Parliament, Mr. Monte Kwinter, to deliver Matzah ahead of Pesach.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives Present a unique photo of the Rebbe delivering a Maamar on his birthday, Yud Aleph Nissan, 1977.
At a Bris in Crown Heights, veteran Sofer Rabbi Moshe Klein, ever on the lookout for a Jew who can be brought closer to Judaism, learned that three of the waiters serving at the event were Jewish, and convinced all three of them to put on Tefilin with him.
Every year before Pesach, the Chief Rabbi and Shliach to Kiev, Rabbi Yonathan B. Markovitch, meets with the heads of the Ukrainian government and gives them Matza Shmura.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe talking to someone at a Farbrengen, circa mid 1980s.
Reb Bentche Shemtov, OBM, poses for a group portrait with a class of the Lubavitch Cheder of London in the early 1950s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
A delegation on behalf of the Israeli Knesset visited the country of Armenia this weekend, headed by MK David Bitan (Likud). While there, the group visited the Chabad Center in Yerevan, the former Soviet republic’s capital city, where they were welcomed by local Shliach Rabbi Gershon Meir Burshtein.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe listening to Krias Hatorah, circa mid-1980s.
Many residents of Crown Heights joined in the wedding celebration of the daughter of Reb Levi Gombo, owner of Gombo’s Bakery.
It was a strange sight in a New York civil marriage court when a Jewish couple was legally married while dressed as a king and queen.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique set of photos of The Rebbe giving Matanos La’evyonim on Purim after Davening.
At Sunday evening’s dinner saluting 60 years to Oholei Torah, a number of the disputed members of the board posed for a photograph together with Rabbi Joseph Rosenfeld, the school’s longtime administrator.
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