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.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying L’chaim with Reb Avraham Parhsan in between Sichos at a mid-1970s Farbrengen.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe handing dollars to ‘tankist’ Reb Chaim Tashkenter to distribute to others doing Mivtzoim. The second photo is of the crowd at that same Farbrengen. Can you identify anyone else at the Farbrengen?
The Houston Chronicle published this photo, welcoming new Chabad Shliach to the Tremont area, Rabbi Dovid Goldstein. The Chronicle notes that Texas native rabbi’s catchphrase greeting is “Shalom, y’all.”
Rebbetzin Nechamah Dinah Schneersohn, wife of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, poses for a photograph with their three young daughters – (l-r) Chaya Mushka, Shaina and Chana.
A group of Israeli backpackers in Argentina placed a sign in front of a glacier at the southern tip of the South American continent, which reads “Chabad House is our home in Bariloche.”
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during Krias Hatorah, circa mid-1980s.
After his house caught fire from a Menorah candle last Motzei Shabbos, the brave firefighters of the FDNY rushed to the scene and extinguished the flames, preventing any human injury and extensive financial loss. Today, Rabbi Mendel Goldstein hosted two fire marshals in his home to personally thank them, and gave them a ‘babka’ cake, which they had mentioned that they loved.
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