Following the major success and popularity of the first broadcasts of MyLife: Chassidus Applied, Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode 17 tonight, Sunday, Lag Ba’omer (May 18) here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “Guilty Parents, Relevant Prayer, Betrayal.”
Tens of Thousands of Jewish children from all over the tri-state area and beyond joined together for a special Lag Ba’omer parade on Eastern Parkway in front of 770. Our photographers captured some of the many happy faces in the crowd.
Tens of Thousands of Jewish children from all over the tri-state area and beyond joined together for a special Lag Ba’omer parade on Eastern Parkway in front of 770. Our photographers captured some of the many happy faces in the crowd.
Tens of Thousands of Jewish children from all over the tri-state area and beyond joined together for a special Lag Ba’omer parade on Eastern Parkway in front of 770.
Shuki and Sheina (nee Kanar) Greenberg (Crown Heights)
It was a parade to see. Floats, thousands of little children, music, charity and words of Torah. Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht, had been down the days before the parade, worried what its success would be. Would people come? Will the program be entertaining? Will the kids enjoy the event? For Rabbi Hecht there was no question when it was done of how wrong he was.
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.
A Lag Ba’omer bonfire and celebration took place for the 30th 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.
Hundreds of Crown Heights residents of all ages turned out tonight, Motzei Shabbos, for the Lag Ba’omer bonfire on Kingston Avenue, in front of the George Wingate High School.
With the release of a captivating new promotional video, Camp Gan Israel of Parksville, NY has revealed which capable young men will be leading their junior and B.M.D. Divisions this summer.
Signs and banners are put up on the 770-like facade of the Bais Chaya Mushka Girls’ School in Los Angeles, CA, in preparation for the Lag Ba’omer Parade that will take place there Sunday.
As wildfires raged around their neighborhoods this week—causing evacuations, widespread damage and more than a few scares for many—Chabad rabbis in the northern San Diego area sprang into action to do what they could to assist those fighting the flames, as well as those in the path of the fires.
Yisroel and Rivka (nee Gorelik) Sufrin (Melbourne, Australia)
Shimy and Devorah Leah (nee Rodal) Heidingsfeld (Moorpark, CA)
As Lag BaOmer draws closer, volunteers who have been working tirelessly organizing this year’s Lag BaOmer Parade have increased their pace. With less than two days left, final details are being hammered out and excited children and their parents were seen picking up their t-shirts.
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