Participants will have the opportunity to meet one of the true greats in the Jewish world today, Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau, who will deliver a number of lectures at the National Jewish Retreat.
Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph taken in Vilna, Lithuania before World War two. Can you identify any of the eight Chassidim posing in the picture?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article
Over 500 Israeli backpackers and local Jews participated in Chabad’s seder in Bariloce, Argentina. The city’s Chabad center is the southernmost Jewish community in the world, and over 1,200 miles away from the nearest Jewish center.
Last fall, a small group of American Jewish tourists stood facing the statue of Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem in Russia. Not unusual; there’s a statue of Sholom Aleichem in Kiev, Ukraine. However, this took place in Siberia, in an area once called “the Soviet Zion,” or “the first Jewish socialist (communist) city in the world,” or “Stalin’s answer to Zionism.”
Members of the Chabad Beis Aryeh Shul in Lod are seeking to understand where the Sefer Torah went. Gabbaim opened the Aaron Kodesh to find the Torah missing. They seem to be confused, uncertain if it was stolen or taken by a member of the kehila.
Moshe Katz – young Shliach in Manhattan’s financial district – posed with famous Jewish comedian Jackie Mason for a photo on Motzei Yomtov, as they grabbed their first slice of pizza after a chometzless Pesach.
Over 60 members of the Lubavitch community in Lyon, France gathered in the Beis Menachem shul for a Kinus Torah on the topic of unsold Chometz and Sefiras Ha’omer.
Meir Deitsch (New Haven, CT) and Mushka Hecht (Norwalk, CT)
1,100 of the Rebbe’s young soldiers gathered in Kfar Chabad for a Chol HaMoed rally. The event was organized by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Alperowitz, directed by Mendel Eisenbach and emceed by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Roth of Beitar Ilit.
Catholic Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa has long been known as a mensch. Now the title takes on new meaning as he has revealed to the New York Post that he plans to raise his kids Jewish.
Dani Loigman (New Jersey) and Shaina Mushka Fass (Crown Heights)
After a 7 day hiatus, Avi, Moshe, Malki and Dina Hershkop from Crown Heights help bake chometz on Motzei Pesach at the Baitch Bakery in Kfar Chabad.
This is the story of two Jewish organizations. Neither receives the proper credit they deserve for the global diaspora revolutions they are inspiring.
A Crownheights.info reader snapped this photo of an unexpected visitor to 770 this morning. Can you spot him too?
Chezki Herz was the first to walk out with a fresh pie of pizza curtsey of a $118 donation to KSCVK at their auction earlier this year. Pomodori‘s pizza was uncompromising and pumping out pizzas as fast as customers were able to line up and grab them.
Thirty-five years after the Chabad-Lubavitch movement established a presence in greater Hartford, local Chabad leaders are about to see a dream realized.
One of the most influential Jews in the Ukraine was murdered on Shabbat, one week after a Kiev yeshiva student was brutally attacked.
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