Weekly Photo: From Days Gone By
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of Chasidim putting on Tefilin with soldiers. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of Chasidim putting on Tefilin with soldiers. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians but an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States.
A Jewish woman in Isfahan, Iran, was murdered and cut in half by Muslim extremists who wanted to take over her home, Israel Radio reported on Thursday.
As we recently reported, several weeks ago JEM held a breakfast for supporters who have assisted JEM’s efforts to record, preserve, and share the video, audio, and photographic recordings of the Rebbe’s life. The breakfast began with this emotional video about the My Encounter with the Rebbe project’s initiative to bring the actual interviewees into the schools and involve the children with the interview process.
A tourist’s snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation.
The inspiring glow of the Menorah will be experienced in New Jersey state prisons for the first time, thanks to a new ruling announced by the New Jersey Department of Corrections.
As the 200th yahrzeit of the Alter Rebbe approaches (24 Teves), the program to distribute his Shulchan Aruch HaRav continues. Thousands of sets of the Shulchan Aruch have been handed out in recent weeks in yeshivos and kollelim around Eretz Yisrael as well as to organized study groups of his works.