First time in eight years, the students of Bnos Menachem along with their teachers and staff posed for a group photo in front of their school on East New York Avenue. Some 800 people packed onto bleachers to pose for a photo, taken by Chaim Perl.
In this unique color photograph, the procession of the Lag Ba’omer Parade of 1966 can be seen coming down the Eastern Parkway service lane. Can you recognize anyone in the photo?
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique collection of photos of the Rebbe at the Lag Ba’omer Parade of 1976. With much thanks to Dr. Bernarard Cohen.
Two Lubavitcher Bochurim, the first ever sent to Nepal on Merkos Shlichus, speak to Jewish tourists on the streets of Kathmandu. Behind them are dozens soldiers, as the country was in the midst of a democratic revolution known as The 1990 People’s Movement. Can you identify those in the photo?
Rabbis Shimon and Shea Hecht, two brothers who are both very active on behalf of the New York Jewish community, met with Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson, who gave them a signed copy of his book One Nation.
Baltimore Chabad Shliach and Police and State Guard Chaplain Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum was on the scene at Oriole Park in Baltimore today providing water and moral support to the National Guard troops trying to restore order to the city.
Members of Canada’s Conservative Party went to the polls Sunday to elect its leadership; the party currently led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Chabad Chassidim in Montreal utilized the occasion to help Jewish voters put on Tefilin and say a prayer.
The Shluchim to France are currently gathered for their annual Regional Kinus Hashluchim and posed this morning for a group photo.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe conversing at a Farbrengen with New York City’s first Jewish mayor, Abe Beame, who led the city from 1974 to 1977.
After a brief but forceful downpour yesterday afternoon, a vivid and easily identifiable rainbow formed over the neighborhood.
The leadership of the sixth annual N’shei Chabad Convention poses for a group portrait at the head table. Can you identify those in the photo, where and when it was taken?
Rabbi Leibel Groner, a secretary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, is Menchem Avel the family of Rabbi Shmuel Wosner, a Torah giant who passed away earlier this month in Bnei Brak.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe turning around to say L’chaim at a Farbrengen in the mid 1970s.
Today, Morah Ruth Landsman of Bais Rivkah Headstart took her class to Raskin’s Fish factory in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where their delicious Gefilte Fish and other fish products are prepared and packaged.
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.
Photographer Mo Gelber captured this photo of Charlie Buttons, an ubiquitous figure in the Crown Heights Jewish community, attending an anti-police-brutality protest in Manhattan yesterday, Tuesday.
In this vintage photograph, three young students at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Bedford and Dean pose for a picture in 1958. Can you identify any of the three?
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