CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a newly released photo of the Rebbe (standing in the background, second to the left, under the chupah) at the wedding of Rabbi Peretz and Chaya Ita Hecht, which took place 22 Adar 5709 (1949) at the Clinton Plaza Hall. With special thanks to Rabbi Shea Hecht.
From a speech at the memorial to Pesha Leah Lapine
Pesha Leah Lapine and I were not only cousins, we were good friends. I remember the night we became friends. Pesha Leah and I were exactly the same age, and had done the same things at the same time. We had each gone from the social issues of the sixties, to a growing sense of Judaism in the seventies. Everything Pesha Leah said that night made me laugh and I laughed until my sides ached.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — In a letter to the Vaad Hakohol an age old fight was finally put to rest for good. The letter from Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba informs that the Siruv and Nidui against R. Dovid Fischer is null, void and completely canceled.
Mr. Yisroel Katzover is a senior journalist who covered the IDF for several decades for numerous Israeli newspapers and media channels. Through the years, he consulted and received much advice and guidance from the Rebbe.
Celebrating food, good nutrition and Jewish heritage — the gourmet kosher cooking classes at Chabad Lubavitch of Mill Valley are about all that and more.
Yisroel and Chaya Mushka (nee Reizes) Raskin (Crown Heights)
The Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday night granted permission for this little brick building on Lynwood Place to become the new student center of the Chabad Lubavitch movement for the Yale community.
It’s so hard to keep the elevator in your house in good shape these days. Just ask Mayor Bloomberg. Five times in the last 10 years, inspectors have reported the five-story elevator in his upper East Side townhouse was “unsatisfactory.”
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Tema Naparstak OBM longtime resident of Kfar Chabad.
She is survived by her children Mrs. Henya Weinberg (Vancouver), Mrs. Golda Galowinsky (Crown Heights), and Reb Yechezkel Naparstak (Paris).
Not long before getting “robbed” by fake Hasidic Jews, a pair of financially desperate Diamond District jewelers cleared out their safe — replacing the contents with what appear to be empty boxes, according to a bombshell video played by prosecutors yesterday in Manhattan Supreme court.
MONTREAL — Four years ago Tony*, 43, was at his wit’s end. A twenty-year addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs made a mess of his life. As he would later recount to others, he was, “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Many people may think that talent and religion can not coexist. Once again Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim takes pride in one of their graduates who has managed to excel in both the religious and academic world simultaneously!
The annual Maple Street Shul Melave Malke will take place this Motzei Shabbos Parshas Tetzaveh February 12, 2011 at 8:30 pm.
Today, 22 years ago on 6 Adar I, 5749, The chossid R’ Shemaryahu Gurary also known as the Rashag passed away. In honor of his Yartzeit we are presenting a short video clip from the day after his passing in which we see Rebbe Davening Mincha in the Rashag’s apartment in 770 on the 3rd floor.
Dovi Barber (Melbourne, Australia) and Mushka Krinsky (Manchester, NH)
L’Chaim tonight, Thursday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Eli Hecht (Forest Hills, NY) and Chavi Bronstein (bas R Fishel of Crown Heights)
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