Thousands visit Rebbe’s Ohel

Jacob Elizerov drove nine hours from Ohio to join thousands who came from as far as China to visit the Queens grave of Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, the Lubavitch leader who died 11 years ago Sunday.

“I think I am even too young to understand right now the righteousness of this person,” said Elizerov, 21, who waited for two hours with his family to enter the rebbe’s concrete tomb.
The visits celebrated a man some believed was the Messiah.

Gimmel Tamuz Late Afternoon Ohel Picture Gallery

There are 43 pictures currently in the gallery.

Gimmel Tamuz Farbrengen in Bais Rivkah

Here is a small gallery of pictures from the Farbrengen in Bais Rivka.

Rabbi Oberlander Interviewd for Hungarian TV in Crown Heights

Rabbi Oberlander, Shliach to Hungry has been interviewd in regards to Gimmel Tamuz for a Hungarian TV News Station, Rabbi Oberlander and his son were interviewd on President St. and Albany Ave.

The news team even posed for a picture.

Yeshivas Kayitz Russia Leaves for Russia

Around 40 Bocurim packed up and left for the summer to Russia where a great summer program will take place, with Learning and Tours of Russia.

AD MOSAI?!

Battle over rebbe’s legacy

More Lubavitch bashing in the public media

Followers are split in a bitter dispute that’s made its way into the courts

Eleven years ago, the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson – the charismatic Lubavitch leader known simply as “the Rebbe” – was buried in Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens.

Many expected that to be the end of a movement that had regarded him as the Jewish Messiah.

But on the anniversary of the rebbe’s death, the group that heralds him as the long-prophesied Messiah has not faded away. In fact, within the Lubavitch community, the split between messianists and non-messianists has become increasingly acrimonious: Acts of vandalism and pushing matches between messianists and police and private security have occurred repeatedly outside the downstairs synagogue at 770 Eastern Pkwy. in Crown Heights, the red-brick building that is the symbolic heart of the movement.

The most recent incident occurred a week ago Tuesday, when a commemorative plaque on the building’s front wall that referred to the rebbe in the past tense, as “blessed memory,” was ripped out, leaving an ugly hole.

In an even rarer development in the insular Lubavitch community, the dispute has spilled into the secular courts with the criminal prosecution of those charged with vandalizing the plaque, and with litigation in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn over who controls the synagogue considered a holy site by Lubavitchers.

On anniversary of Rebbe’s death, split in community grows ugly

Now our laundry gose out to the “New York Newsday”

July 8, 2005

Eleven years ago, the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson — the charismatic Lubavitch leader known simply as “the Rebbe” — was buried in Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens.

Many expected that to be the end of a movement that had regarded him as the Jewish Messiah.

But on the anniversary of the Rebbe’s death, the group that heralds him as the long-prophesied Messiah has not faded away. In fact, within the Lubavitch community, the split between messianists and non-messianists has become increasingly acrimonious: Acts of vandalism and pushing matches between messianists and police and private security have occurred repeatedly outside the downstairs synagogue at 770 Eastern Pkwy. in Crown Heights, the red brick building that is the symbolic heart of the movement.

The most recent incident occurred a week ago Tuesday, when a commemorative plaque on the building’s front wall that referred to the Rebbe in the past tense, as “blessed memory,” was ripped out, leaving an ugly hole.

In an even rarer development in the insular Lubavitch community, the dispute has spilled into the secular courts with the criminal prosecution of those charged with vandalizing the plaque, and with litigation in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn over who controls the synagogue considered a holy site by Lubavitchers.

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More Parking Chaos Thursday

Today (Thursday) there will be no parking and no traffic on Brooklyn Ave. from Eastern Pkwy. till Empire Blvd.

The D.O.T. finished scraping the roads and today they are going to pave it over. And end this Balagan.

Chabad: Rattling the Cage

Evidently, it was anti-disengagement saboteurs from the messianic wing of Chabad who scattered nails and oil on the highway into Jerusalem last week, says Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra.

On the same day the highway was boobytrapped, some young Israeli rabble who’d taken over a Palestinian house in Gaza stoned a Palestinian teenager under an IDF soldier’s care. The house, which was spraypainted with Kahanist slogans and the warning “Sharon, we’ll murder you, too,” had messianic Chabad flags flying from the roof and Chabad posters pasted to the walls.

Special on Gaza Disengagement: Balagan

Balagan is a slangy Hebrew word, derived from Russian, used by the Israel Defense Forces to describe what is happening with Sharon’s Gaza disengagement strategy: “chaos; a screw up!”

It is less than 60 days before the 8000 residents of more than 20 villages that make up Gush Katif in the coastal Gaza district are to be moved to Netzarin, an oceanside setting in the northern Negev. The Sharon government has plied the Gaza settlers with the carrot of millions of shekels and the stick of preventive detention for their children should they balk at leaving under duress of military supervision.

Israeli Pilot Saves Woman In New York

Former IAF helicopter pilot crashes chopper into New York City’s East River and saves drowning passenger; receives praise from Mayor Bloomberg

An Israeli man who saved a British woman from drowning after the tourist helicopter he was piloting crashed in New York City’s East River was praised by Israel and by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday.

Yossi Ben-Bassat, 51, said the sightseeing chopper he had flown over Manhattan on Tuesday plunged into the water after he lost control of it. One of the six passengers, British tourist, Karen Butler fell into the water and was later found to have sustained a serious head injury.