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Picture of the Day! - Gan Menachem Day Camp Group Picture!


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For the first time ever, over 200 campers at Camp Gan Menachem gathered this morning in front of 770 for the camp picture along with their counselors and staff.

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Unique Photos of the Rebbe at a 1990 Women’s Convention

The Avner Institute is pleased to present a beautiful collection of photos from the N'shei Chabad Jewish Women's Convention, Iyar 25, 1990. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit www.Portraitofaleader.org

Special thanks to Rabbi Yossi Lew and The Rebbe Archive for the pictures.

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Picture of the Day! - Miami Yeshiva 5769 Group Picture!


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Forty Tmimim  and seven Shluchim  of the Miami Yeshiva gathered for a group photo, headed by the Rosh Yeshivah Rabbi Yehuda Leib Shapiro, Mashpia Rabbi Velvel Lipsker, and Menahel Ruchni Rabbi Benche Korf. The Yeshiva is celebrating its 35th anniversary of its founding.

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Special Photo Edition of The Rebbe In Honor Of Gimmel Tammuz

Imagine the emotions of a Chassid standing in the Rebbe’s presence. As Gimmel Tammuz approaches, CrownHeights.CH and the Avner Institute would like to present a beautiful and heartfelt article, written by Jay Litvin A”H, shortly after Gimmel Tammuz 1994. Jay served as the medical liaison for Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl Program; he passed away in April of 2004, after a valiant four-year battle against severe illness, and is survived by his wife, Sharon, and their seven children. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit www.Portraitofaleader.org

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Picture of the Night! - Levi Mochkin Bar Mitzvah at the Kretchme!

The Kretchme Pizza Shop in Crown Heights turned into a Bar Mitzvah hall Monday evening as Hatomim Levi (ben Reb Yossel) Mochkin celebrated his Bar Mitzvah along with family and friends.

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Picture of the Day! - Chovevei Torah 5769 Group Picture!

Bochurim at Yeshivas Chovevei Torah gathered today, Monday, outside their Yeshiva for a group photo with their Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Kalman Weinfeld, Mashpiim Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Paltiel and Reb Berel Lipsker and staff.

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Picture of the Day! - New Haven Yeshiva 5769 Group Photo!


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Bochurim at Yeshivas Beis Dovid Shlomo of New Haven, Connecticut, gathered this week for a group photo with their Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yosef Kalmanson, the Menahel Rabbi Yosef Lustig and staff.

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Pirsum Rishon Rebbe Picture! - President Zalman Shazar in 1966


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CrownHeights.CH and the Avner Institute are Happy to present a Unique Photo of the Rebbe, in which President Zalman Shazar introduced each one of the people which came with him to his Yechidus with the Rebbe in 1966, in this photo; he is presenting Mr. Abraham Herman, the Israel Council member in Washington D.C at the time. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.org

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Picture of the Day! - Manchester Yeshiva 5769 Group Photo!


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Bochurim at the Yeshivas Lubavitch of Manchester, England, gathered this week for a group photo with the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Akiva Cohen, Rabbi Moshe Wolberg and staff.

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Picture of the Day! - Oholei Torah Zal 5769 Group Picture!

Earlier this afternoon, Wednesday, Bochurim of Oholei Torah Zal took their 5769 group picture in front of 770 along with their mashpiim and melamdim.

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Picture of the Day! - Darchei Menachem Mesivta Group Picture!

Darchei Menachem Mesivta students posed outside 770 earlier this afternoon for a group picture with their Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Ayal Ben-Tzion, and teachers.

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Pirsum Rishon Rebbe Picture! - Approaching A Child Outside 770!

CrownHeights.CH and the Avner Institute are happy to present a beautiful photo of the Rebbe arriving at 770; the photo was taken circa 1985. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.org

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Picture of the Day - Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore 5769 Picture!


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Hanhalas Hayeshiva seated 5th from left to right, Rabbi Levi Kaplan, Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, Head Shliach of Maryland, Rabbi Benzion Shaffer, Rabbi Dovid Weber, Rabbi Ephraim Rosenbloom, Rabbi Nuchum Bukiet, Rabbi Velvel Adler, Rabbi Moshe Slavaticky and Hatomim Avremi Metal.

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Picture of the Day! - NYPD Helicopters Fly Above Crown Heights!


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Six NYPD helicopters hovered low above Crown Heights this morning leaving many residents wondering what was going on. The helicopters were headed to the funeral of a police officer that was shot and killed in a friendly fire incident over the weekend. The funeral took place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

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Picture of the Day! - Rebbe Distributing Mashke at a Farbi In 1963!

CrownHeights.CH and the Avner institute are happy to present a newly released photo of the Rebbe, courtesy of Rabbi Goldstein and The Rebbe Archive. To learn more about the Rebbe visit:  www.Portraitofaleader.org

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Picture of the Day! - Possible Picture of the Alter Rebbe Surfaces

A few months ago the Lubavitcher Yeshiva was sent a picture that was published in today's HaMevaser newspaper in Eretz Yisroel. The picture came complete with the claim that this is the picture of the Alter Rebbe's holy countenance and has been handed down throughout the generations for the past 200 years.

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Pirsum Rishon Rebbe Pictures In Honor of Shavuos!

In honor of the holiday Shavuot, when the Jewish people were gathered at Mount Sinai to receive the Torah, CrownHeights.CH and the Avner Institute are proud to present several photos of the Rebbe engaged with a Torah scroll. Special thanks to the Rebbe Archive and to Rabbi Yossi Lew.  To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.Portraitofaleader.org

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Picture of the Day! - Released Time Instructors Group Photo!

Bochurim who partake in the public school Released Time throughout the year posed for a group picture in front of 770 earlier today, Thursday.

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Pirsum Rishon Rebbe Picture! - Leaving a Mincha Prayer in 770

CrownHeights.CH and the Avner Institute are happy to present a photo of the Rebbe leaving a Mincha prayer in 770. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.org

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Picture of the Day! - Toldos Avraham Yitzchok Visits Gutnick!

Reb Yossel Gutnick was visited last week in Eretz Yisroel by the Rebbe of Toldos Avraham Yitzchok before he returned to Melbourne, Australia.

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Pirsum Rishon Rebbe Picture! - Shaking Hands With Senior Adviser

CrownHeights.CH and the Avner Institute are happy to present a first time release Photo of the Rebbe Shaking hands with a Senior adviser From the Javits administration. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org

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Lag Ba'Omer Rebbe Pictures of the Day! - Of Times Past!

In honor of Lag B’Omer CrownHeights.CH and the Avner Institute are proud to present a series of photos from Lag B’Omer parades over the years. This parade was always a monumental event, beginning with the entrance of the Rebbe from 770, who eagerly greeted the hundreds of children marching past him, accompanied by beautiful floats created by Chabad students. We would like to capture some of these memorable moments. To Learn More about the Rebbe vist: www.portraitofaleader.blogspot.com

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Last Photo of Two Mumbai Kedoshim Alive In India Surface

JERUSALEM, Israel — One half a year after the horrific carnage in Mumbai, the very last photo of two of the kedoshim- Rabbis Bentzion Korman and Aryeh Leibish Teitlebaum HY"D, surfaced. The picture was sent by the driver of the factory where they worked as mashgichim, and was taken but hours before they gave up their lives on Kiddush Hashem.

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Pirsum Rishon Rebbe Picture! - Giving Out Coins to Counselors!

CrownHeights.CH and the Avner Institute present a weekly first-time released photo of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. In the main shul in 770, the Rebbe is seen giving out coins to counselors of Tzivos Hashem, the Lubavitch youth movement. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.org

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Picture of the Day! - Shluchim the Rebbe Sent To The Kfar In 1956

CrownHeights.CH received a picture in which 10 Shluchim the Rebbe sent to ‘Beit Sefer L’mlacha’ in Kfar Chabad following the massacre.

In the photo (R-L): Rabbi Eliezer Horowitz, Hatomim Yehuda Kirnsky and the Yeshivas secretary Rabbi Chanoch Glitzinshtien. Shluchim: Rabbis Avrohom Korf. Sholom Ber Butman, Sholom Ber Shemtov, Zushe Posner, Shraga Feivish Hertzog, and Sholom Eidelman.

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