New Engagement
Menachem Reich (Crown Heights) and Itta Kreiner (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Dov and Racheli (nee Rav-Noy) Muchnik (Oxnard, CA)

Photos: The Great Lag Ba’omer Parade – The Marchers
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. For the children, the highlight of the parade was when they marched together with their classmates past the stage where the Rebbe would stand and wave.

Photos: The Great Lag Ba’omer Parade – Floats & Bands
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. Many schools were led by marching bands, as well as amazing floats depicting many of the Rebbe’s Mivtzoim.

Photos: The Great Lag Ba’omer Parade – Gallery #2
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.

8:00pm: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Jacobson
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.”

Photos: The Great Lag Ba’omer Parade – Faces #2
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.

Photos: The Great Lag Ba’omer Parade – Faces #1
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.

Photos: The Great Lag Ba’omer Parade – Gallery #1
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.
Baby Boy!
Shuki and Sheina (nee Kanar) Greenberg (Crown Heights)

‘Uplifted’: The Story Behind the Photo
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.

Live Video: 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.

Photos: Simcha and Chayus at the Empire Bonfire!
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.

Photos: Hundreds at Lag Ba’omer Bonfire
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.

Video: CGI-Parksville Announces Head Staff
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.

Picture of the Day: Getting Ready for the Big Day
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 Blaze in California, Chabad Offers a Hand
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.