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Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of three Chassidim engaged in a lively discussion. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article
The Chabad Torah Center of West Bloomfield, MI celebrated its 38th annual dinner on Monday night, May 21, at the Novi Sheraton Hotel.
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A lengthy dispute over plans by the Chabad House to build a 12,000-square-foot synagogue in the middle of a Sherman Oaks residential neighborhood continued to generate controversy on Tuesday.
In honor of Shavuos, a long time donor approached Rabbi Shazak Zirkind, Director of Released Time, to donate 17 inch Torahs which were to be distributed to the public school children who attend the Released Time Program under the auspices of NCFJE.
Shoneh Halachos is a program for eighth grade boys to encourage and guide them in the study of Halacha with the Alter Rebbe’s Psak which is clearly explained through notations made by Rabbi Levi Bistritzky a”h – former Rav of Tzfat. It was established by the Igud Menahalei Yeshivos of Crown Heights for Oholei Menachem and United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Crown Street, with the goal to expand the knowledge of Halacha and Yiras Shamayim of the talmidim of our community.
Ahead of the upcoming Yom Tov of Shavuot the Beis Din of Crown Heights released a six page guide which holds the answer to many questions and instruction as to many customs related to the holiday.
While school children and camps around the world are warming up for summer, in South Africa’s Cape Town they are buttoning up for another winter; the Summer’s December holiday is a distant memory.
What a surreal picture! At a busy and noisy construction site, workers in white or yellow helmets mix cement, while others carry blocks or lift steel rods. In the midst of it all stands a bearded man wearing a black helmet, a black suit, white shirt and a tie.
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Life is anything but rosy for illegal flower peddlers in Borough Park. Cops in the predominantly Hasidic neighborhood are cracking down on the unlicensed hawkers after legit florists complained they are costing them between $5,000 and $10,000 a week in sales.
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An annual New York City tradition begins Wednesday, as Fleet Week kicks off with the Parade of Ships along the Hudson River.
In honor of the upcoming Yom Tov of Shavuos, students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s Pre-1A took a ‘field trip’ to Kingston Avenue, where they went to work planting beautiful flowers in the tree beds.
Rabbi Avraham Chazan, Shliach in Lod, Israel, arranged for about 20 boys from immigrant and underprivileged homes to celebrate their Bar Mitzvah with much fanfare. The celebration took place on Monday, Erev Rosh Codesh Sivan; it began with a visit to the Knesset, continued with the main event at the Western Wall, and ended with a festive banquet at the Kaliv halls in Jerusalem.
Meir Pliskin, a photographer from Crown Heights, got whacked for taking pictures of the Monsey Viznitzer Rebbe at the Citi Field internet gathering on Sunday.
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