
Picture of the Day: Dovid Efune Interviews Bibi Netanyahu
Lubavitcher Chosid and pro-Israel activist Dovid Efune, Editor-in-Chief of the Algemeiner Journal, sits down for an exclusive interview with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
Lubavitcher Chosid and pro-Israel activist Dovid Efune, Editor-in-Chief of the Algemeiner Journal, sits down for an exclusive interview with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
Two Crown Heights Bochurim visited a Jewish home in Brooklyn in order to help them fulfill the Mitzvah of Mezuzah, one of the ten campaigns the Rebbe initiated. They removed the family’s old Mezuzah case to check if the parchment inside was still kosher, but were mystified by its strange contents – a handwritten ‘Tefilas Haderech’ (prayer of the traveler), written by pen on regular paper.
Member of the Israeli Knesset Yoel Razbozov (Yesh Atid) is attending the wedding of the daughter of Russia’s Chief Rabbi, Berel Lazar, which is currently underway in Moscow. To his right is philanthropist Lev Leviev, and to his left is director of the Leviev Foundation, Rabbi Dovid Mondshine.
The Admor of Biala Lenchna davens at the Ohel of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe and the Rebbe in Queens, accompanied by a small entourage of his Chassidim.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a collection of photos of the Rebbe leading a Farbrengen. Can you identify anyone in the photos?
Graffiti scrawled on the walls of a Chabad library in Beit Shemesh, Israel, says “Beware: Chabad Missionary.”
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe giving l’chaim to someone during a Farbrengen, circa early 1960s.
This photo, published by the UK’s Daily Mail, shows a sign placed on the corner of Albany Ave. and Crown St. in Crown Heights, bearing the following message the paper describes as passive-aggressive: “This path was made by an unknown young woman with her own shovel and no help from anyone. Thanks for making this crossing possible.”
A Chabad Shlucha in the Russian city of Nizhni Novgorod recently gave birth to a baby boy at a local hospital. When she went to pick up her baby from the hospital’s nursery, she was shocked to see how the babies were being kept.
Rabbi Menachem Matusof, shliach to Calgary, Alberta, and Rabbi Sender Wilschanski, shliach to Milan, Italy, greet each other in 770 on Yud Shevat after having each won a raffle following a nine-week learning campaign by Bais Medrash L’Shluchim and the Moshiach Campaign.
Former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi came across a Chabad Mitzvah Tank in Rosh Pinah, and was invited inside by the Bochurim to put on Tefilin and say a prayer for the safety and security of the Holy Land, which he readily agreed to.
At a city-wide father and son learning program hosted by The Bayt in Toronto last Motzei Shabbos, three generations study Torah together: Rabbi Chai Cohen, his son local Shliach Rabbi Yirmi Cohen, and grandson Mendy Cohen. “It was one of the happiest moments of my life as a father,” Rabbi Yirmi Cohen told CrownHeights.info.
In response to the current situation with anti-Semitism in France, where some Jewish leaders have suggested that Jews not wear yarmulkes in public out of fear for their safety, Rabbi Mikhael Cohen, head of Chabad for French-speakers in New York City, created the ‘Kipah Challenge,’ in which Jews and non-Jews alike take photos of themselves publically wearing a Kipah in defiance of terror.
Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe giving Tzedakah as he walks into 770 for Shachris
As part of MyShliach’s 17th Regional Shabbaton, which is being held in Venice, Italy, young Shluchim set out in the Jewish Ghetto to do Mivtzoim and put on Tefillin with Jews.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique collection of photos of the Rebbe seeing off a group of Talmidei Hashluchim, circa 1962.
Yankel Friedman sings Shamil’s nigun in this behind-the-scenes glimpse at the upcoming DVD The Rebbe’s Nigunim, by the makers of Mitzvah Boulevard.