From Days Gone By: 6th Annual N’shei Convention
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?
13
Premium Post
Eber’s Tishrei Liquor and Wine Sale
Picture of the Day: Mazkir Is Menachem Avel
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.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
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.
Picture of the Day: Girls Visit Raskin’s Fish Factory
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.
Picture of the Day: Blessing the Trees
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.
Picture of the Day: Charlie Protests Police Brutality
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.
From Days Gone By: Bedford and Dean, 1958
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?
Picture of the Day: First ‘After-Pesach’ Pizzas!
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.
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe – during a children’s rally in the early 1970’s.
Picture of the Day: The Mashpia and the General
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: Matzah for the Mayor
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.
Shluchim Harness HONY Facebook Post to Inspire
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.
Picture of the Day: World’s First Chometz Sale
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.
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe
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.
From Days Gone By: ’60s Bar Mitzvah
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?
Picture of the Day: Matzah Prep for Mitzvah Tank Parade
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.
Picture of the Day: Writing the Children’s Torah
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.
Submit a Story
