Mr. Meir Zeiler, was encouraged by the Rebbe to attend European trade shows. Although his display was not a worthwhile financial investment there has been great profit on a different front. This is the story of a powerful meeting with a Holocaust survivor.
Tomorrow, join fellow visual creatives at the Visual Arts Hakhel Event celebrating the fusion of Torah inspiration and creativity. Hear from top figures in the industry and connect with local talent on September 6 at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel!
15,000 people packed Madison Square Garden for an energetic and historic concert with Ishay Ribo, Akiva Turgemon, Avraham Fried, and others.
It was a few weeks before last Rosh Hashanah, and Roi Bardenstein, a native of Jerusalem, wanted to help others in his adopted hometown, San Jose, Calif. He reached out to a local Chabad rabbi and asked for a list of people in need.
At least two people were shot along the West Indian Day Carnival parade route in Brooklyn Monday — while the historically bloody J’Ouvert festival that precedes it was violence-free for a second year in a row.
It became revealed right after leaving the Rebbe’s Ohel that the Rebbe had not only given his brocha for the engagement, but had himself made the shidduch 29 years ago, while the Rebbe was in Beth Israel Hospital.
As singer Amir Dadon stood outside Madison Square Garden early in the day leading up to the acclaimed performance with Ishay Ribo, he was approached by a Lubavitcher who asked him to put on Tefillin. At first he refused, then gave in.
The National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory beginning 11 A.M. Tuesday, September 5 until 8 P.M. Wednesday, September 6. Hot and humid conditions are in the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, with heat index values in the mid to upper-90s across the city.
Year after year, as tens of thousands of revelers from across the tri-state area and beyond descended on Eastern Parkway for the famous Labor Day Parade, the NYPD would set up a series of double barricades in front of 770. This year, that was missing.
As the last revelers made their way off Eastern Parkway, the New York City Sanitation Department stepped in to clean up after the Labor Day revelers.
The Crown Heights community is invited to hear Divrei Bracha and Chizuk from Harav Hagaon Chacham Nissim Ben-Shimon, Rosh Av Bet Din of Tel Aviv – Yafo in honor of Chai Elul and as a preparation for Tishrei 5784.
Buy a ticket now and win the early bird special of $5,000 cash as well as win a Luxurious 2024 Lincoln Navigator + $40,000 worth of jewelry + $25,000 vacation!
I wasn’t being disrespectful. It was Elul, aka August. The weather was hot. And I didn’t know there was a dress code. If I didn’t even know there was a dress code, what was I doing there?
Avraham Deitsch (Samara, Russia) to Nechama Greizman (Stockholm, Sweden) L’Chaim: Tuesday, Sept. 5th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown St.
These photos, shared with CrownHeights.info by Pesach Laufer, show some of the unique moments from the Oholei Torah Day Camp of 1978. The photographs include a visit to an unknown amusement park and a trip to West point Military Academy.
Two Hakhel farbrengen’s will be held tonight in Crown Heights, in honor of Chai Elul, the birthday of the Alter Rebbe and Baal Shem Tov.
Elie Wiesel, an author, Nobel Prize laureate, and Holocaust survivor, recalls seeing the Rebbe for the first time, and the profound impact it had on the rest of his life.
