In just two weeks, thousands of Shluchim from around the world will converge upon the Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights, where more than 80 sessions, workshops and the Melava Malka of the International Kinus Hashluchim will be held.
Right at the beginning of the school year, the 8th Grade of Oholei Torah began a special contest connected with missions of the various mitzvahs and chassidishe conduct of the month of Tishrei. These included Mivtza Shofar, Mivtza Lulav, learning on your own time, davening Chol Hamoed with the Minyan, going on Tahalucha, Hakhel gatherings etc.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe giving a coin to a child for Tzedaka.
At the filming of a movie scene in front of Oholei Torah this morning, the school’s Office Administrator, Rabbi Shlomo Nelken, approached the film’s Jewish producer and offered him the opportunity to put on Tefilin – which he readily accepted.
Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Roderman regularly mans a Tefilin stand in the Machane Yehudah marketplace in Jerusalem. On Friday, while chatting with an IDF soldier, he was surprised by the young man’s Hungarian-Chasidic accent.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Brocho
Rabbi Gershon Overlander, Director of the Chabad House of Hendon in London, UK, launched his own little campaign against the BDS movement (the “Boycott Divestment and Sanctions” movement against Israel), with a creative bumper sticker that reads: BSD we’ll beat BDS!
Rabbi Yirmi Cohen, along with two of his children, met with the oldest Jewish Member of Parliament in Canada, Mr. Monte Kwinter, and together they performed the Mitzvah of shaking the Lulav and Esrog.
Chaya Zissel and Devorah Klein were out doing Sukkos Mivtzoim when they happened upon a little critter who wanted a chance to shake the Lulav too!
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe with his set of Hashanos.
Yeshiva World News published this photo of a Chabad Chossid in Moscow International Airport en-route to New York City. Not wanting to eat outside of a Sukkah, the man devised a makeshift Sukkah using luggage trolleys and a bamboo mat.
These three photos depict scenes from Kaparos being performed in Crown Heights in the mid 1980s. Can you identify anyone in the photos?
Israeli Knesset Member Oren Hazan (left) and Israeli Druze Deputy Minister Mendi Safadi (far right) are given a tour of the Jewish institutions of Azerbaijan by Chabad Shliach and Chief Rabbi Shneor Segal (center left) and Jewish community president Alexander Shapiro (center right) in the Shi’ite Muslim nation’s capital city of Baku.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing coins for tzedakah to children during Tishrei, 1986.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe delivering a Sicha after Mincha.
Rabbi Leibel Groner, secretary of the Rebbe, Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov, Chairman of Aguch, Rabbi Y.Y. Schwei of the Crown Heights Beis Din and Rabbi Michoel Lerner, Rosh Kollel, are Menachem Avel Rabbi Meir Gutnick in his Montgomery Street home after the passing of his mother, Devorah, OBM.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin paid a visit to Pope Francis in Rome, accompanied by his personal secretary Rivkah – an Orthodox-Jewish woman. When a person usually greets the pope, they shake his hand and bow down. But when Rivkah’s turn came to greet the pope, she explained to him that for religious reasons she could not shake his hand, nor could she bow down since he was wearing a cross. The pope then covered his cross with his hand, and bowed down to her!
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