With great sadness we report the passing of Mr Pichos Meyer (Peter) Kalms OBM, of London, England. Mr Kalms was an active member of the Chabad community in London and had a special connection with the Rebbe. He passed away over Shabbos, the first day of Pesach.
Watch as thousands of people flocked to the Kotel to participate in birkas Kohanim on the first day of Chol Hamoed Pesach.
Gavriel and Bryna (nee Segelstein) Cohen (Lauderhill, FL)
According to preliminary exit polls, the Ukrainian president elect will be Jewish Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky. The projected election win is being called a landslide that will make Ukraine the only country outside of Israel to have both a Jewish president and prime minister.
An anti-Semitic Arsonist struck yeshivas Toras Chaim in Moscow just hours before Yom Tov, destroying the kosher L’Pesach food, and painting swastikas on the building.
A team effort of locals, bochurim and Anash brought together created this amazing Yud Aleph Nissan Tank Parade. Four Mitzvah Tank,s a video truck, and horses paraded through the streets of Montreal this past Wednesday, marking the Rebbe’s birthday.
Terrorists struck multiple prayer sites in Sri Lanka Sunday in an attack that killed over 200 people, and injured hundreds more. The attacks targeted non Jewish places of worship.
CrownHeights.info would like to wish all our readers a Happy, Kosher and Frailichen Pesach! In observance of the Yom Tov, there will be no updates starting from sundown tonight through nightfall on Sunday.
Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin, Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Avraham and Chabad Lubavitch of Brooklyn Heights, sells the chometz to Captain Adeel Rana of the 84th NYPD Police Precinct.
Rabbis Moshe Bogomilsky and Shimon Hecht gathered in the offices of National Committee to do the traditional sale of the Chometz [leavened breads] to a gentile. Also at the sale was Rabbonim Rabbi Zirkind, Rabbi Wolvovsky, Rabbi Shuchat and Rabbi Holtzman.
Rabbi Moshe Havlin, the Chabad Rav of Kiryat Kat, sells the chametz in Israel.
See in photos as the last Peasch preparations are completed, the Chametz is burned, and the rest sold.
When Chabad Shliach Rabbi Yirmi Cohen handed a box of Shmurah Matzahah to Mr. John Tory, the Mayor of Toronto, and Councillor James Pasternak, he was not expecting a full rendition on the meaning Maztzah.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe as he receives an aliya on Chol Hamoed.
Watch from beginning to end how hand made Shmurah Matzah takes shape. The entire process, done in 18 minutes or less, makes for a crunchy, crispy, and slightly burnt Mitzvah.
In this weeks letter in honor of Pesach, the Rebbe letter explains the message of Pesach in our daily life: the tremendous accomplishment a Jew is able to achieve if he only wills it: going from the lowest depths to the loftiest spiritual heights.
Following Crown Heights Hatzalah’s Fast and professional response to yesterdays police involved accident, the 71st precinct tweeted out a thanks to the volunteers of the amazing organization. See here for full accident story.
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