Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe during Megillah reading on Purim.
Picture of the Day: Lucky Winner Picks Up $5,000 Check
Last week, we announced that Levi Schneider of Crown Heights was the lucky winner of the Camp Emunah Split-the-Pot raffle, whose proceeds went to benefit the camp’s scholarship fund. Levi, who was out of the country when he purchased his winning ticket, stopped by this morning at the Camp Emunah Office and claimed his prize of $5,054.59.
From Days Gone By: Wiping Away a Tear
The Rebbe wipes away a tear at his mother’s funeral, Tishrei, 1964.
Picture of the Day: Seminary Girls Share Joy of Purim
Students of the Chaya Aydel Seminary in Hallendale Beach, FL bring Shalach Monos and Purim joy, along with their principal Rabbi Yossy Lebovics, to residents of the Pembroke Park Retirement Home.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe seen searching for money to give to a poor person.
Picture of the Day: Another Generation in the Covenant
Continuing the tradition of his late grandfather Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber Raskin, OBM, Rabbi Dovid Nissan Jacobs of Crown Heights performs a bris on his newborn son Sholom Dov Ber this past Friday at Beis Levi Yitzchok.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe at a children’s rally in the early 1970s.
From Days Gone By: Shlichus to War-Torn Europe
Rabbis Zalman Posner and Mendel Baumgarten embark on the Queen Elizabeth ship on their way to war-ravaged Europe, where they were sent by the Frierdiker Rebbe to visit the survivor Jewish communities following the Holocaust. Can you identify anyone else in the photo?
Picture of the Day: Snow, Snow, Go Away!
Photographer Shmuli Evers captured a mother and daughter enjoying the unseasonably balmy weather in Crown Heights yesterday. Can you figure out the full message they are writing in chalk?
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe in conversation with a New York politician following a
private audience, circa mid-1960s.
From Days Gone By: Shock and Tears
Moments before the Rebbe’s Levaya, on the 3rd of Tammuz, 1994, a photographer captured this image of shocked Chasidim waiting outside 770.
Picture of the Day: Taller than Tall
At about 6′ 6″ tall, some say Rabbi Zevi Raskin, director of Chabad in Cyprus, is the tallest Shliach in the world. But he is dwarfed while standing next to Jewish-America basketball player of Balkan origin Robert Rothbart, who towers above him at almost 7′ 2″.
Picture of the Day: Making the Most of the Weather
The Lazar children of Crown Heights build a snow castle in the courtyard of their building last night, Motzei Shabbos.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe entering 770 for Mincha and a children’s rally in 1973.
Another Moment of Kindness – By a Firefighter
An act of kindness by a New York City police officer was picked up by the mass media after it was captured by a passerby. Another act of kindness was captured by a CrownHeights.info photographer at the scene of a fire, where an FDNY Captain helped a lady cross the street with her wagon.
From Days Gone By: 1946 Wedding
Several Chasidim sit around the table of a wedding in New York, c. 1946. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Picture of the Day: Deputy Minister at the Ohel
The Israeli Deputy Minister of the Interior, Mrs. Faina Kirshenbaum, prayed at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens yesterday, Monday, while on an official state visit to the United States.
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