With the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Henry Ford Motor Company realized that the new state would need a huge number of vehicles for the military and the government, and it announced plans to build a car assembly plant in Israel.
Six families on Shlichus in Monmouth County, NJ were treated to a fun-filled day of relaxation and rejuvenation by head Shluchim Rabbi Baruch and Tova Chazanow, who wished to express their feelings of appreciation to the shluchim for all their hard work and devotion to the Rebbe’s Shlichus during the past year.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe entering his car on his way to the Ohel in the early 1980s.
Laibel and Chani Berkowitz (Huntsville, AL)
Uri and Gitty Kogan (Toronto, Canada)
Even before Batsheva and Yehuda Glick married in 2007, they wanted to serve as Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim. But the couple, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., had a hard time finding a post.
Students of Yeshivas Oholei Yosef Yitzchok-Lubavitch in Casablanca, Morocco, pose for a group portrait.
Rabbi Shneur Zalman Ashkenazi has been appointed as the spiritual leader of the central synagogue of Rishon Letzion, Israel’s fourth largest city, in a ceremony Tuesday evening.
Close to 100 people attended a pre-yomtov event at Lubavitch of Glasgow, Scotland, where they witnessed the start of a new Sefer Torah, commissioned by the children of Rabbi Chaim and Sora Jacobs in honor of their parents’ 44 years of dedicated service to Scottish Jewry as Shluchim of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Uriel and Dvorki (nee Solomon) Rivkin (Tampa, FL)
As multitudes of guests from around the world flock to Crown Heights for the High Holidays, the police officers at the 71st Precinct’s Community Affairs Division have requested that we inform the visitors of the following basic safety tips to adhere to during their stay:
Over 300 people joined Chabad at the Shore for its first Summer Gala, titled “An Evening of Tribute,” on Thursday, August 22, at the Katz JCC in greater Atlantic City.
After the tremendous success of Chabad.org’s crafting episodes for Pesach this year, Martha Stewart Crafts asked to join forces and help co-sponsor the production of additional episodes for Rosh Hashana.
Camp Gan Israel of Ukraine (AKA ‘Yeka’) wrapped up another amazing summer. Almost 100 Jewish children from all over Ukraine experienced a fun filled two weeks, with Judaism infused in every moment of the day.
As he danced with a group of Chabadniks, U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) swung his body around in circles so jubilantly that his kippah fell off. When one of the others placed it back on Sherman’s head, the congressman grinned.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima for: Faiga Sima bas Leah and Yosef Sholom ben Pricha Fraida
A decision by the United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights may leave Jewish students at UC Berkeley feeling even less at home than ever. But some say it may well be the impetus for them to step up and speak out on this campus, well known for student-led BDS movements.
