Yesterday, the Jewish community of Cyprus, an island nation in the Mediterranean, celebrated the completion of its fourth Chabad Center, built in the capital city of Nicosia. The island is a popular vacation spot for Israelis, lying just 150 miles off the coast of Israel.
A reader sent us this photo taken in the 1930s, which depicts the scene on an unpaved Crown Heights street. Can you identify the location of the photo?
Noted Professor Dr. Tali Loewenthal of University College-London was spotted discussing concepts in Chassidus with a Yeshiva Bochur at a wedding in London.
Rabbi Shimon Freundlich, Chabad Shliach and Chief Rabbi of Beijing, China, addresses a Melave Malka benefiting the Beis Medrash Darchei Chaim-Stavnitz in Boro Park this past Motzei Shabbos.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a picture of the Rebbe leaving the Mikvah, mid 1980’s.
The American Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, stops on his way to run the Tel Aviv marathon to put on Tefilin with a Lubavitcher Bochur.
Four teachers and sixteen students of Beis Rivkah’s graduating class of 1959 pose for a group portrait. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Marty Glade, a 90-year old Holocaust survivor, dances with a new Sefer Torah he donated to Chabad of North Ranch, CA, directed by Rabbi Shlomo Bistritzky. The new Torah was dedicated in memory of the victims who perished in the Holocaust.
The newly-appointed Rebbe of Tosh, Rabbi Elimelch Segal-Loewy, who succeeded his father OBM after his passing this past summer, led a Melave Malka on Motzei Shabbos at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Also in attendance was area Shliach Rabbi Moshe Meir Lipszyc.
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.”
