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Weekly Photo: From Days Gone By

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Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of three Chassidim engaged in a lively discussion. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?

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Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir visits a kindergarten in Kfar Chabad in the early 1970s.

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13 Comments

  • Mendy Hecht

    I believe the gentleman in the center wearing the “Homburg” is my late father-in-law, Reb Yudel Keller.

  • Thank you for these Wonderful Memories

    Left to right Long time Crown Heights resident a true Chosid and Gentleman HORAV HILLEL LEVINSON A’H….The LEGENDARY HORAV YAAKOV HALEVI FRIEDMAN A’H … (with Shtreimal ?).in the background in white shirt maybe HORAV S. Engel a Beloved Oholei Torah Teacher

  • Very Nice

    The Chassid in the Middle is Reb Yaakov Friedman Z”L He was a very special man and a Gabai Tzedaka.

  • mas

    person at right- Rabbi Mendel Deitsch (israel)
    person in middle- Rabbi Yudel Keller OBM

  • yossl

    On the left Reb shmon rubin senter hgbi zedkha harav yokov fridmian on the right harev he’ ll levlnzon

  • Bracha Bogomilsky

    This picture appears in a documentary book about Hasidim The boos is named “A people Apart” it was published be E. P. Dutton & Co. in 1970 (It was one of the very early of this sort)

    The books contains 185 Pictures taken between 1967 -70,by a photographer Philip Garvin, he studied in Yale university and his base in CH was the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Moshe& Bracah Bogomilsky,(They played an active role in the making of the book)
    In the book this is picture #152 and is described as a “A business discussion: two Lubavitcher and a non-Lubavitcher Hasid in Crown Heights

    The 2 Lubavitcher are Reb Yaakov Friedman and Reb Hillel Levinson z”l

  • Ahavas Yisroel

    This picture is a real expression of the Alte Tzeiten the good old days (not so long agon though). The two special people I see in the picture were given over to do a Good Deed for another Yid. They did it with all their heart and soul.Its sad to say They don’t make them today..To the right R’ Hillel Levinson in the MIddle R’ Yakov Friedman z”l
    Moshiach Now!