Bnos Menachem, a Crown Heights based girls school, has launched a “Our Girls, Our Gift” campaign aiming to raise $500,000 to help further their goal of educating children. For one day only all contributions will be mated dollar-for-dollar.
The committee of Keren Yisroel Aryeh Leib, a G’mach that benefits many Crown Heights families, is inviting the community to participate in its annual Melave Malka, which will take place this Motzei Shabbos Parashas Trumah at Beis Rivkah-Crown St.
CrownHeights.info has received a photograph, believed to have never been seen before and apparently taken right before the Rebbe assumed the Nesius, crossing the street near President Street and New York Avenue.
Bochurim studying in Lubavitch Yeshiva Zal in Montreal, Canada kicked off the month of Adar – which is synonymous with Simcha – with a lively Adar dancing and music session on Motzai Shabbos.
Yankel and Chaya Mushka (nee Katzman) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Shabbos Chof-Tes Teves marked the first Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yehoshua Binyomin Gordon OBM. Hundreds turned out in person and thousands more tuned in online live via Chabad.org to participate in a special commemoration event that rounded off an inspirational weekend, which included the participation of Rabbi Gordon’s family, siblings from across the world, Shluchim of the Valley and beyond, and the Los Angeles community at large.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present this photo taken in Kfar Chabad, circa mid 1950s. Can you identify those in the photo, or where it was taken?
Zalmy Popack (Denver, CO) and Rivkah Leah Cylich (Melbourne, Australia)
In the beginning of the month, Yahad, the FJC’s special programs platform directed by Rabbi Mendy Wilansky, conducted two unique seminars for young Jewish adults from the former USSR that opened to them the world of Jewish learning like they’ve never seen before.
Levi and Ruchama Baum (Crown Heights)
Csanád Szegedi grew up in a mildly racist milieu in Miskolc, a midsized town in northeastern Hungary. His father was the scion of an old noble family of Magyars, a point of pride for the young Szegedi, who was born in 1982 and came of age in the chaotic years following the fall of the Soviet-influenced Hungarian People’s Republic.
Yesterday, six Chabad Shluchim met with United States Senator Orrin Hatch in his current office in order to discuss the efforts to return the “Schneerson Library” from Russia.
With great sadness we regret to inform of the passing of R’ Chaim Mayer Minkowitz OBM, a longtime member of the Montreal Chabad Lubavitch community.
Shneur Vogel (Crown Heights/Monsey) and Sarah Schild (Monsey, NY)
In an escalation of the internal feud dividing Lithuanian Jews, the Chabad movement’s senior emissary to the country was banned from the capital city’s main synagogue.
Reb Yisroel Shemtov, while on a visit to Miami Beach, greets his old friend, the Mashpia Rabbi Yosef Abrahams, in the study hall of the Yeshiva Gedolah of Greater Miami.
Yankel (JJ) (ben Shea) Hecht (Crown Heights) and Hadassah Halperin (Toronto, Canada)
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