This morning, congregants arrived in 770 to find that the area surrounding the Bimah (platform were the Torah is read) was completely trashed, heaped with garbage and desecrated.
Shmuly and Chavi (nee Grunblatt) Geisinsky
555 Crown St. [corner Albany AVe.] Apt. 3C
Shmuel and Henna (nee Haber) Kopel
770 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Eli and Shterni Lando
Bais Eliezer Yitzchok, 394 Kingston Ave. [between Crown and Montgomery St.]
Yossi and Nechama Dina (nee Keller) Saacks
935 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
A special presentation in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Rebbe’s recovery from a heart attack in 1977.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Seligson will lead a discussion on the topic – 70 Years of the Hayom Yom.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique newly-released photo of the Rebbe at a Lag Ba’omer parade in the Late ’60s. With special thanks to Rabbis Shmuel and Pinny Lew.
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Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, speaking to the Lay leaders at the Kinus, praises the work of the Shluchim – devastated by Sandy, yet providing help and food to anyone in their area. He recounts the life saving work of the Far East Shluchim at the time of the Tsunami.
A decades-old photo of several Bochurim who seem to be waiting for the Rebbe’s farbrengen to begin has gone up for sale on the website of Heritage Auctions, the world’s third largest auction house. The starting bid? $750.
Last week, Oholei Torah alumni gathered with fellow classmates and, for a short while, relived their memories, times and good old feelings of their “Bochurshe yorhren.”
Lubavitcher comedian Moshe Kravitsky has launched a weekly show about the trials and triumphs of life in Crown Heights, titled ‘The Moshe Show.’ In this week’s episode, a mysterious package shows up at Moshe’s doorstep at the most opportune time.
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It was a crisp November evening, my father came home from work, and after having dinner, he invited me to accompany him to the polls. Standing on line, my father gave me a crash course on American civics, democracy and the electoral system. Although the information overload confused my eight year old brain, I thoroughly enjoyed the quality time spent with my father and learned a thing or two. I can also remember him telling me that it was the first time he voted for a Republican President (Ronald Reagan).
A videographer, standing right outside the apartment building in Nachlat Har Chabad where three Kedoshim lost their lives this morning, captures the Iron Dome intercept and destroy another rocket launched from Gaza toward the Israeli civilians.
A video by Shturem.net of the interior of the building in the aftermath of the attack can be viewed here. [Warning: Graphic content].
Details are beginning to emerge about the three victims who died in this morning’s rocket attack in the southern Israeli municipality of Kiryat Malachi.
In honor of the fourth Yahrtzeit of Gabi and Rivka Holtzberg, HYD, we present this video which was produced by Rabbi Chaim Fogelman shortly after the horrific attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai, India.
Despite being pushed off by Hurricane Sandy, some 90 members of the Crown Heights community came to the Jewish Children’s Museum on November 5 for for “Sell It!” The first in a new series of seminars hosted by Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs (CHYE), “Sell It!” offered attendees of all backgrounds and levels chance to dive into the world of sales and enhance their sales skills.
In honor of the fourth anniversary to the brutal killing of Gabi and Rivka Holtzberg HYD in Mumbai, India, we present this video which was prepared for the 2008 Oholei Torah Dinner.
Two rockets launched from the Gaza Strip today landed in Rishon Letzion, some 7 miles south of Tel Aviv. No causalties were reported in those rocket attacks, by far the farthest strikes by Hamas in two days of fighting. Rishon Letzion is considered a sister city to Tel Aviv.
Update: Residents of Kfar Chabad are reporting that warning sirens have gone off in town. Kfar Chabad is located roughly two miles from Rishon Letzion. It is less than a mile away from Ben Gurion airport.
Three Lubavitchers were killed in a rocket attack on the neighborhood of Nachlat Har Chabad in the Southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi this morning: The victims, two men and a woman, were identified as Ahron Smadga, Yitzchak Amselam, and a 25-year-old expectant mother, Mirah (nee Cohen) Scharf. Mirah’s husband, Shmuel, an infant and several other children were among the wounded who were taken to nearby hospitals.
Warning: some of the photos contain graphic images that may not be suitable for children. Please view with discretion.
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