Picture of the Day: Reaching Heights in the Heights
A reader sent us this photograph of a construction worker doing carefully balanced work atop a Crown Heights building. Can you identify where the picture was taken?
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Postcards to My Younger Self (Part 1)
Shoshanah Silcove, an American freelance writer and a Machon Chana Alumnus who lives with her family in Melbourne, Australia, penned the following article in which she chronicles her arduous journey back to her Jewish roots through written correspondence with her former self.
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present two unique photos of the Rebbe performing Kapporos in front of 770 in 1990.
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London Boys Clock in over 10,000 Minutes of Tehilim
Lubavitch Boys’ Junior School in Stamford Hill, London.
The students of Lubavitch Boys’ School in London had a massive Chayos in saying Tehillim over Rosh Hashana. A special chart with all the different time slots where it is possible to say tehilim over Yom Tov was given out to help boys keep a track on how much they said.
Photo Gallery: Kapparos in Russia
In the first set of photos, Jews in Moscow’s Marina Roshcha neighborhood gather around the country’s chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, to perform Kapparos and receive ‘Lekach.’
Congregants of Empire Shtieble gathered late Monday night to perform Kapparos in front of the Shul.
Photo Gallery: Kapparos at Empire Shtieble
Congregants of Empire Shtieble gathered late Monday night to perform Kapparos in front of the Shul.
A few months ago, a video was uploaded to YouTube in which a 10-year-old boy in the Philippines sings Avraham Fried's English hit “Don't Hide from Me” at a performance in his school's auditorium.
Video: Philippino Child Performs Another Fried Song
A few months ago, a video was uploaded to YouTube in which a 10-year-old boy in the Philippines sings Avraham Fried‘s English hit “Don’t Hide from Me” at a performance in his school’s auditorium.
While parents ran into stores frantically looking to buy the new “Mitzvah Boulevard,” friends and family of the actors and producers were treated to a special screening of the new video.
Photos: Mitzvah Boulevard World Premiere
While parents ran into stores frantically looking to buy the new “Mitzvah Boulevard,” friends and family of the actors and producers were treated to a special screening of the new video.
A documentary filmmaker and the defense attorney for Sholom Rubashkin appear on Fox News to discuss why they believe the U.S. Supreme Court should agree to hear Rubashkin vs. United States.
Video: Fox News Discusses Rubashkin Appeal
A documentary filmmaker and the defense attorney for Sholom Rubashkin appear on Fox News to discuss why they believe the U.S. Supreme Court should agree to hear Rubashkin vs. United States.
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Weekly Photo: From Days Gone By
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of a Chossid helping a young Bochur do Kapparos. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article.
The Rebbe on Erev Yom Kippur, 1985.
The Beis Din of Crown Heights has released a pamphlet - in both English and Hebrew - which contains instructions for many customs and Halachos, as well as the answers to many questions regarding the upcoming Yom Hadin.
Guide: Times, Halachos and Customs for Yom Kippur
The Rebbe on Erev Yom Kippur, 1985.
The Beis Din of Crown Heights has released a pamphlet – in both English and Hebrew – which contains instructions for many customs and Halachos, as well as the answers to many questions regarding the upcoming Yom Hadin.
A new Sefer Torah is accompanied down Crown St. toward its new home in Oihel Nosson, on Sunday, 7 Tishrei.
Video: Procession Follows New Torah to Oihel Nosson
A new Sefer Torah is accompanied down Crown St. toward its new home in Oihel Nosson, on Sunday, 7 Tishrei.
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Op-Ed: Before You Go to Kapores Tonight…
by Miryam Elisheva Segal
The first time I did Kapores, I awoke in the middle of the night, my Shluchim picked me up in their 15 passenger van with all their little kids, and we drove over a hour to a farm in the next state. The car was silent with sleeping children, my Shluchim, and myself, the lone college student who wanted to do Kapores “the real way.”
Darchei Students Get Up-Close View of Shchita
On Sunday, Darchei Menachem Mesivta – along with the two oldest elementary classes – learned and preformed a presentation about the Halachos of Kaporos and Shchita.
Hundreds of Jews from the Russian city of Smolensk, located barely 40 miles from the town of Lubavitch, gathered to celebrate the dedication of a magnificent new community center “Beis Malkin,” and its new shul, “Beis Menachem.”
Smolensk Community Dedicates Magnificent Shul
Hundreds of Jews from the Russian city of Smolensk, located barely 40 miles from the town of Lubavitch, gathered to celebrate the dedication of a magnificent new community center “Beis Malkin,” and its new shul, “Beis Menachem.”
Rebbe Painting Wins High Honor at Art Show
A Far Rockaway artist’s likeness of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, ZT”L, won the top prize for oil paintings at the annual ArtSPLASH art show conducted by the Rockaway Artists Alliance.
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