A Crown Heights family recently uncovered a vintage collection of photographs taken in and around the original building of Lubavitcher Yeshiva in the U.S., located on the corner of Bedford and Dean in Brooklyn, during the mid 1940s. The album was shared with us by Lubavitch Archives. Can you identify anyone in the photos?
When Chabad of Nepal got word that about 50 Israelis were stuck in several remote villages with no food, electricity or water, they sprang into action, organizing an effort to try and reach them. But a rescue mission to deliver food and a satellite phone to them by motorcycle yesterday ended after a 10-hour journey that met with blocked roads and no way to get through to them.
Shloimy Freedman (Argentina) and Chanky (bas Avremel) Friedman (Crown Heights)
As a spoof of the viral video published last fall of a woman experiencing over 100 instances of verbal harassment during a 10 hour period walking the streets of New York City, Shliach to Uruguay Rabbi Mendy Shemtov made this video to show what it’s like to walk the streets of Montevideo as an Orthodox Jew.
Many people are shaking their heads at the destruction in Baltimore and wondering how anyone could burn and loot their own community. PIX11 News spoke to Richard Green, an activist in the Crown Heights African-American community, about what he believes leads protesters to stage violent riots.
IDF Captain (Res.) Dan Gordon, a screenplay writer and author, relates a story from the recent war between the IDF and the Hamas terror group, how a group of Orthodox Jews looking for wheat to be used for Matzos during a Shmitah (sabbatical) year foiled a terror attack that Hamas sought to launch through one of its terror tunnels.
Rabbi Shalom Rephun was the principal of Manhattan Day School and currently resides in Manhattan. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in June of 2009.
Shmuel and Rivky (nee Kleinman) Kazen (Crown Heights)
Shmuly and Dina (nee Perl) Tzfasman (Crown Heights)
It seems the sun did not set in Thailand last night, with a Farbrengen at the Asian Regional Kinus HaShluchim having lasted through the night. Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, head shliach to Thailand and Kinus host, introduced the theme of the evening, “Brengen Yidden Tzum Rebb’n,” stressing the importance of following the Rebbe’s directives while working to connect Yidden with the Rebbe.
Levi and Mushky (nee Pewzner) Kotlarsky (Crown Heights)
Two Lubavitcher Bochurim, the first ever sent to Nepal on Merkos Shlichus, speak to Jewish tourists on the streets of Kathmandu. Behind them are dozens soldiers, as the country was in the midst of a democratic revolution known as The 1990 People’s Movement. Can you identify those in the photo?
Students at the Southern Connecticut Hebrew Academy were well represented at the 67th Annual Connecticut State Science Fair held March 10th-14th at Quinnipiac University.
Choli and Shevi (nee Rosenberg) Rivkin (Crown Heights)
Rabbis Shimon and Shea Hecht, two brothers who are both very active on behalf of the New York Jewish community, met with Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson, who gave them a signed copy of his book One Nation.
After 38 years of dedicated service in the U.S. Army, Chaplain Colonel Jacob Z. Goldstein has retired. In a ceremony in the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall at Fort Myer, Virginia, 35 army personal retired, with Col. Goldstein leading the group with his 38 years of service.
A delegation of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis stopped by the Embassy of Nepal, which neighbors the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Washington, D.C., yesterday to offer condolences and support in light of the massive earthquake on Saturday that has claimed thousands of lives and devastated the capital of Kathmandu.
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