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.
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?
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