Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe entering a children’s rally in the early 1970s.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe entering a children’s rally in the early 1970s.
Rabbi Yaakov and Rebbetzen Zlata Zuber (standing third and fourth from the right) at a dinner benefiting the Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Boston, circa late 1940s. Rabbi Zuber, a devout Lubavitcher Chosid, escaped the Soviets and the Nazis, only to be brutally beaten to death on the streets of Boston in 1953.
The graduating students of Oholei Torah’s Shiur Daled Zal, who will be going on Shlichus next year to various Yeshivos and Chabad institutions around the world, posed for a group portrait with their teachers and Mashpi’im outside 770 yesterday.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing dollars after the laying of the cornerstone for the expansion of 770 in 1988.
Signs and banners are put up on the 770-like facade of the Bais Chaya Mushka Girls’ School in Los Angeles, CA, in preparation for the Lag Ba’omer Parade that will take place there Sunday.
Today, Rabbi Yanki and Esty Jacobs, Chabad on Campus Shluchim to the Netherlands and directors of Chabad in Amsterdam’s Financial District, were surprised and honored when an assistant to the Mayor of Amsterdam, Mr. Eberhard van Der Laan, came by their house to deliver flowers and best wishes from the Mayor.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe listening to a child recite one of the 12 Pesukim at the Lag Ba’omer Parade of 1987. More pictures from that historic event in the extended article.
44 boys from Oholei Torah elementary school will be part of a marching band at the Lag BaOmer parade this coming Sunday. Seizing the decent weather the band marched on the streets of Crown Heights and practiced their beats.
These two photos were taken during the Lag Ba’omer parade in 1987. In one photo, the ‘elders’ of Crown Heights sit in a designated area behind a police barricade to watch the parade. In the other, the yellow school bus that would take students to the Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway, decked out in signs and banners, travels along the parade route. Full pictures in the extended article.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe waving to children at the Lag Ba’omer parade of 1980.
About a dozen Chabad Shluchim operating on the islands of the Caribbean Sea and its vicinity gathered in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico for a regional Kinus. Following a day of seminars and workshops, the Shluchim posed for a group photo.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman stands with the chief rabbi and Shliach of Kiryat Gat and Sderot, Rabbi Moshe Havlin, at a ceremony on Israel’s Remembrance Day. Sderot is located near the Gaza border and is constantly under rocket fire from the Hamas controlled territory.
The late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), brother of President John F. Kennedy, attends a Chabad event in Washington D.C. in the mid 1980s. Near him stand Rabbi Shalom Posner, leader of the Chabad community in Pittsburgh, and Rabbi Yisroel Deren, director of Chabad of Connecticut.
Mendel Minkowicz, son of Rashi Minkowicz, OBM, met with Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) at the foot of the U.S. Capitol building yesterday, while on a graduation trip to Washington, DC with his classmates.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe delivering a talk to women on erev Rosh Hashanah, 1970.
Young Dovid Friedman, son of Chasidic singing sensation Benny Friedman, was welcomed into the covenant of Avraham Avinu this morning at a ceremony in the simcha hall of Lubavitcher Yeshiva. To his left is his grandfather, renowned author and lecturer Rabbi Manis Friedman, and to his right is his great uncle, Chasidic singing superstar Avraham Fried.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin speaks at a Bar Mitzvah for the orphans of heroes of the Israel Defense Forces in Kfar Chabad, circa late 1970s.