Just as neighborhood families were finishing up the Pesach cleanup they began lining up for delicious pizza from Pomodori‘s brick ovens. Their staff was hard at work pumping out pie after pie as fast as customers were able to order them.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe – during a children’s rally in the early 1970’s.
In this vintage photograph, legendary Chosid Reb Mendel Futerfas engages in animated conversation with an IDF general in Kfar Chabad. Also seen in the photo are Rabbis Shlomo Maidanchik and Berke Wolff.
Humans of Amsterdam, a Facebook Page featuring photos of random city-dwellers and their stories inspired by Humans of New York, last Thursday featured a photo of local Campus Shliach Rabbi Yanki Jacobs, who had just delivered a box of Matzah to the Mayor.
After Leibel Ferris, son of Shluchim in Berkeley, California, was featured on ‘Humans of New York’ along with his parents ‘interesting’ background, 157,358 people ‘liked’ the post and created an interest in the word ‘Hassid’ and as result exposed thousands to Chabad.
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, Regional Director of Chabad NSW in Australia, sells the Sydney Jewish community’s Chametz to The Honorable David Clarke MLC, NSW Parliamentary Secretary for Justice, in the presence of Rabbi Eli Feldman, Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of NSW.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe – speaking with a man at a Farbrengen and distributing Kos Shel Brocho after the conclusion of Yomtov.
In this vintage photograph, several Lubavitcher women pose for a group portrait at a Bar Mitzvah in the 1960s. Can you identify anyone in the photo, where and when it was taken?
Students of Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St.’s 7th grade pack Matzos to be distributed at the Yud Aleph Nissan Mitzvah Tank Parade, which took place Tuesday.
In the picturesque Tzemach Tzedek Shul in the Old City of Jerusalem, an expert scribe by the name of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Henig is busy writing a Sefer Torah. This is the sixth scroll written especially for children, and over half of its letters have already been sold.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe introducing his aide, Dr. Nissan Mindel (right), to Israel’s President Zalman Shazar in 1966.
An impromptu memorial materialized yesterday at the home of the Sassoon family in Flatbush, where seven children died in a fire last Friday night. Mourners left flowers, candles and well wishes in front of the boarded-up and barricaded home, along with a front-page clipping of the NY Post that reads “Goodbye Angels.”
In honor of the second Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yossi Goldstein, OBM – AKA ‘Uncle Yossi’ – which took place last week on the 25th of Adar, we present this vintage photograph of him playing the accordion at a children’s gathering in the 1950s.
Three term New York State Governor George Pataki received a box of Shmurah Matzah from Rabbi Levi Krinsky, Shliach to the State of New Hampshire.
Last week, Baltimore Shliach Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum was invited to give the invocation at Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s state of the city address at Baltimore City Hall.
Rabbis Yisroel Jacobson and Berel Rivkin dance at a wedding in 1964. Can you identify anyone else in the photo, and where it was taken?
Shaul Zelig Bronstein of Monsey beams as he poses for a photo with the grand prize he won at a raffle this past Motzei Shabbos for all the boys who attended a majority of Avos U’Banim sessions throughout the winter at Congregation Tzemach Tzedek.
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