Picture of the Day: Le Président et Les Shluchim
The President of France, Francois Hollande, converses with Chabad Shluchim at a dinner celebrating 70 years to the founding of CIRF – The Council of Jewish Institutions in France.
The President of France, Francois Hollande, converses with Chabad Shluchim at a dinner celebrating 70 years to the founding of CIRF – The Council of Jewish Institutions in France.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe entering his car holding a bag of panim, on his way to the Ohel.
Following a joint Israeli-Italian government summit, Avigdor Lieberman, the newly reinstated Israeli Foreign Minister, traveled to the United States to meet with John Kerry, the US Secretary of State. Lieberman’s first stop in the United States was at the Ohel.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe watching the Menorah being lit in Buenos Aires, Argentina via satellite at ‘Chanukah Live!’ in 1991.
A gigantic Dreidel float debuted at the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan this morning, celebrating the once-in-a-lifetime alignment of Chanukah and Thanksgiving this year.
A large banner by the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn adorns the front of the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, wishing everyone and their loved ones a “Happy Chanukah!”
This large Menorah was erected last night by Rabbi Yanki and Esty Jacobs, Shluchim to the south of Amsterdam, in the city’s prestigious Financial District.
Mayor-Elect of New York City Bill de Blasio met with Israeli President Shimon Peres today.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe saying a Sicha at a Farbrengen, circa mid 1970s.
This morning, a CrownHeights.info reader spotted 8th Day, the wildly popular Jewish music duo, filming a scene for an upcoming music video near Prospect Park. The music video is expected to be released this coming winter alongside their new album, ‘Hooleh!’
Rabbi Avraham Shemtov, director of Chabad of Philadelphia, inaugurates the first ever public menorah in an early morning lighting ceremony in 1974, in front of Independence Hall.
Photographer Menachem Benhamou captured a 360 degree photo of the central Shul in Kfar Chabad, Israel, which was built as an exact replica of 770 Eastern Parkway.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe greeting a family after Maariv near the entrance to his study, circa mid 1970s.
In this photo from the early 1950s, children rally outside 770 Eastern Parkway in support of the Mesibas Shabbos program, an initiative of the Previous Rebbe under the auspices of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch.
In preparation for the annual Satmar grand dinner, that will take place once again this year at the Crown Heights Armory on Union St. and Bedford Ave., several activists from the Satmar community arrived at the 71st precinct to meet with the new commanding officer George Fitzgibbon and his lieutenants to help coordinate security for the event.
With his camera on a mysterious contraption, photographer Chaim Perl created buzz at this year’s Kinus Hashluchim group portrait as to what he was up to.
This is a photo of Rabbi Binyomin Wolf hanging out at the Kinus Hashluchim in New York. That’s right, all three Chabad rabbis share the same name. They serve their respective communities in Sevastopol, Ukraine; Hanover, Germany; and Helsinki, Finland.