Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe delivering a talk to women on erev Rosh Hashanah, 1970.
Picture of the Day: Friedman Family Welcomes Newest Member
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.
From Days Gone By: Bar Mitzvah for Children of Heroes
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.
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 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: 770 Tree Blossoms
Just in time for passers-by to recite the customary blessing for trees before the month of Nissan ends, the iconic tree in the front yard of 770 Eastern Parkway – Chabad World Headquarters – has bloomed with beautiful white flowers, signalling an end to a particularly harsh winter for the residents of the city.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe at the Lag Ba’omer parade of 1970.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Brocho, circa mid 1980s.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe Davening Shachris on Chol Hamoed Pesach, 1962.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe drawing mayim shelanu to be used to bake Matzos the Rebbe would distribute.
Picture of the Day: The Rebbe’s Global Seder
A full page ad was featured in today’s print edition of the New York Times inviting every Jew, no matter where on earth he or she may be, to join the Rebbe’s Shluchim for the Pesach Seder.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe at the annual ‘Machne Yisroel Yechidus,’ in the late 1980s.
Picture of the Day: A Jew Is a Jew
Rabbi Yochanan Gordon, Shliach to Australia’s Tasmanian Island, puts on Tefilin with a Catholic priest whom he discovered is actually Jewish.
From Days Gone By: Breaking Ground to Expand 770
A group of Bochurim dig with shovels to prepare for the groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of 770 in 1988. Can you identify anyone in the picture?
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe walking up to 770 in the mid 1970s.
From Days Gone By: Merkos Shlichus in the Early ’50s
A group of students of the newly established Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in 770 pose for a group photo prior to their departure on Merkos Shlichus, circa late 1940s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Picture of the Day: A Life-Saving Gift
Rabbi Mendel Stein, development director of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Oak Park, Michigan, smiles with Randy Gillary as they display the newly installed heart defibrillator he donated to the institution.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe standing outside 770 seeing off a group of visitors, circa early 1960s.
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