Baby Girl!
Mendy and Chaya (nee Dinerman) Kreiman (Palm springs, CA)

Photos: Faces in the Young Shluchim’s Group Photo
Some 800 young Shluchim posed for a group photo of their own, our photographer brings us a closer look at the faces that make up this amazing photo.

Photos: The Faces that Make Up the Kinus Group Photo
While fitting all the Shluchim into one photo is quite the accomplishment, it is easy to forget that it’s the individual faces which make up the bigger picture.

The Elder Is the Newcomer as Three Generations Share Table at the Banquet
Like many retired businessmen who now live abroad, Gerald Teldon, 92, makes a few trips back to the United States each year to visit his grandchildren and great-grandchildren—the 18th of which is due to be born this winter.



From Days Gone By: The Kinus Roster, 1990
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a gallery of photos from the International Kinus Hashluchim of 1990. Can you identify those in the photos?

Photos: Melave Malka and General Session
Thousands of Shluchim gathered after Shabbos for a grand Melave Malka and general session at the Palace Ballroom in Boro Park, concluding the fourth day of the International Kinus.

Photos: The Shluchim’s Pan Kloli
One of the highs of the Kinus Hashluchim is when the Pan Kloli [general pan] is read at the Ohel. On Friday, all of the Shluchim attending the Kinus signed the Pan Kloli, requesting improvement in world economy, strength to increase the number of Chabad Houses worldwide, spare us from tragedy and to take us out of Golus and bring Moshiach.

Shabbos at the Besht: Chayei Sarah
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbis Yisroel Hahn, Mendy Wolff, Mendel Kalmenson, Yossy Gordon and Gershon Avtzon, who will lead a discussions throughout this Shabbos Chayei Sarah and Kinus weekend.

Weekly Story: My father
Reb Meir Avtzon was born in 5669 (1909) in Mirogod Ukraine (in the Poltova region) and he was the youngest of nine children. By the time he was ten, the Communists regime closed down the yeshivos and chadorim and he had no place to learn, especially as almost all of the melamdim either ran away or were warned not to continue teaching.

Weekly Thought: And Avraham Was Old
How old is old? Old with an attitude? “Old” is only a perception. And: what side of the family are you going to be from? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Chayei Sarah.

Classmates Mourn Mashpia at 50-Year Reunion
Several classmates who studied at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Newark, NJ, which later relocated to Morristown, gathered at the home of their colleague Rabbi Yehudah Clapman in Crown Heights to reminisce about their time spent together in Yeshiva and remember their beloved Mashpia who just passed away, Rabbi Elimelech Zweibel, OBM.

Video: Con-Artist Takes Advantage of Jews’ Kindness
An individual who conned many innocent Orthodox Jews was busted by one gutsy Orthodox-Jewish victim of his.

Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe receiving an Aliya at his home on President Street after the Rebbetzin’s passing.

Boruch Dayan Ho’emes: Mrs. Soro Tema Gerlitzky, 66, OBM
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Soro Tema Gerlitzky, OBM, of Crown Heights, wife of beloved Maggid Shiur in Oholei Torah Rabbi Avrohom Gerlitzky, YBLT. She was 66 years old.

Weekly JLI Video: The Gift of Life
JLI recently launched a new weekly video series: each week a unique one-minute video is released featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Chayei Sarah is titled: The Gift of Life.