New Engagement!
Shimon (ben Sholom Ber) Kievman (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Fajnland (Long Beach, CA)
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Picture of the Day: No Laughing Matter
A clown at Sunday’s Great Lag Ba’omer Parade in Crown Heights takes a break from entertaining the children to help an attendee put on Tefilin. This year marks 50 years since the Rebbe initiated the Tefilin campaign at the outset of the Six-Day-War.
Los Angeles Has Great Lag BaOmer Parade – Gallery #2
The Jewish community in Los Angeles, California held their own Great Lag BaOmer Parade on Pico Boulevard, with over 6,000 in attendance.
Los Angeles Has Great Lag BaOmer Parade
The Jewish community in Los Angeles, California held their own Great Lag BaOmer Parade on Pico Boulevard, with over 6,000 in attendance.
Gallery #4: The Great Lag BaOmer Parade – Faces
Thousands of children packed two full blocks of Eastern Parkway, in front of 770 – the Lubavtich World Headquarters, to celebrate Lag BaOmer with a parade and a show of Jewish Pride.
Gallery #3: The Great Lag BaOmer Parade – Faces
Thousands of children packed two full blocks of Eastern Parkway, in front of 770 – the Lubavtich World Headquarters, to celebrate Lag BaOmer with a parade and a show of Jewish Pride.
New Army Chaplain Sworn In at Lag BaOmer Parade
A Chabad Shliach has joined the U.S. Army as a chaplain, and in the first event of its kind, held his “swearing in” ceremony at the Lag BaOmer parade amid the marching and dancing.
New Engagement!
Zalman (ben R’ Chaim Shaul) Brook (Crown Heights) and Bella (bas R’ Yossi) Lifshitz (Crown Heights)
8:00pm: Are Some People Superior to Others?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 162, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Can I Apply Lag B’Omer to My Life? When is Being “Wild” Appropriate? Does Chassidus Applied Compromise the Integrity of Chassidus? Are Some People Superior to Others? How to ‘Own’ the Place You’re In.
New Engagement!
Dovid (ben Menachem) Lipsh (Montreal, Canada) and Etty (bas Menachem) Gurevich (Crown Heights)
Gallery #2: The Great Lag BaOmer Parade
Thousands of children packed two full blocks of Eastern Parkway, in front of 770 – the Lubavtich World Headquarters, to celebrate Lag BaOmer with a parade and a show of Jewish Pride.
Gallery #1: The Great Lag BaOmer Parade
Thousands of children packed two full blocks of Eastern Parkway, in front of 770 – the Lubavtich World Headquarters, to celebrate Lag BaOmer with a parade and a show of Jewish Pride.
Monday: Shloshim in Memory of Reb Beryl Epstein
A ceremony will be held on Monday evening, May 15th, marking the Shloshim since the passing of a beloved member of the Crown Heights community, Rabbi Berel Epstein, OBM.
Live at 10:00am: The Great Lag Ba’omer Parade
Join the Great Lag Ba’omer Parade from anywhere in the world! Here on CrownHeights.info, a live broadcast of the parade will air beginning at 10:00am, courtesy of Jewish.tv. Thousands of Jewish children are expected to gather at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in New York for the monumental event.
Music Video: Yiten Lecha
The music video, set to a hit song from Shmuel Ungar‘s debut album, shows how Hashem gives us blessings in many different ways – even while we put the work in, the land, the learning, the giving, and everything else we do, we still rely on Hashem.
Photos: 100’s Celebrate Lag BaOmer in the Rain
Hundreds of Crown Heights residents of all ages turned out Motzai Shabbos for the Lag BaOmer bonfire on Kingston Avenue, in front of the George Wingate High School.
Rain Doesn’t Dampen Lag BaOmer Celebrations
A Lag BaOmer bonfire and celebration took place for the 33nd year running on Empire Boulevard, in the backyard of the Horowitz family home. Together, the Horowitz family and Rabbi Nachman Twerskei held their annual ‘Hadlokoh’ of a Bonfire in honor of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
