Beginning at 19 years old, when he was the youngest synagogue minister to ever serve in the United Kingdom, Rabbi Dov Lent held various rabbinical and teaching positions for twenty years. In 1987, with the Rebbe’s blessing, he opened a dairy company, which is still running today. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in March of 2015.
Over 2,000 took part in the annual dinner and fundraising auction benefiting Beth Lubavitch in Paris, France.
Yanky and Rivky Bruk (Monsey, NY)
Levi and Mushky (nee Krasnianski) Chayo (Montreal, Canada)
Shmulik and Chaya (nee Levin) Gurary (Baltimore, MD)
The Chabad Jewish community center of Anchorage, Alaska, was evacuated Monday afternoon after receiving a bomb threat.
Tirtza Ben David drives two hours a day to take her two young daughters, Moriyah, 4, and Chana, 2, to the Lubavitch Cheder Day School in St. Paul, Minn. It’s a small school, she says, where each child gets personalized attention and the chance to learn in ways that best suit their needs.
An investigation by ABC7’s Jim Hoffer uncovers what is believed to be ticket quotas being enforced against enforcement officers in New York City’s Department of Sanitation, leading resident and business owners to complain about bogus tickets.
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.
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