Thousands arrived in Crown Heights on Sunday for the Great Lag BaOmer Parade, marching on behalf of Jewish unity, education and other important Jewish ideals.
The event on May 2, 2010, was held in front of Lubavitch Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.
It was a special tribute to the Rebbe, originator of the Parade who placed strong emphasis on the importance of gathering and uniting Jewish people and children.
The parade is a project of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, NCFJE and Tzivos Hashem.
For the first time, Chassidic music superstars Mordechai Ben David, Avraham Fried, Lipa Shmeltzer and Uncle Moishy were on stage singing together.
After the concert and the 12 Pesukim, classic favorites including marching bands and beautiful floats as well as the stars of the show, the Jewish boys and girls, marched to Kingston Avenue.
32,908 people tuned in to the live video broadcast presented exclusively on COLlive.com – Chabad Lubavitch Community News Service. Many watched it with their family and friends. A few Shluchim screened it for their Chabad House members.
Yankee Teitelbaum and his camera crew filmed, while Yan Veinblat of Innovision AV provided the feed.
COLlive’s editor Yehuda Ceitlin and videographer Levi Hillel flew over in a helicopter with the iParade winner Chaya Lipszyc and winner of the Released Time competition Michael Kakzanov (separate story will be posted).
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MBD Singings Reb Akiva
Avraham Fried: Chazak
MBD & Lipa: Veamarten Koi Lechoi
NOT BAD
shalom from Odessa!!!!!!
I’m learnin’ it!
It’s awesome! So funny!
go dovid and mendel pewzner
GO BETZALEL!!!!
If you really care about the Chabad experience of others, then perhaps send Tzivos Hashem and/or NCFJE a letter with some constructive criticism as opposed to commenting on this website as it is read by many people, from both the Chabad community and not. Now, concerning the “dangerous sidewalks” that you mention. If you are referring to the parade on Eastern Parkway, then the service road closer to Lincoln Place was open to pedestrians and had ample room to move about. I went there with my stroller and had no issues at all. If someone chose to go on the… Read more »
Three cheers for Chabad! There are no boundaries to what we can accomplish, bsimcha!
bellisssimo!!!!
thank you col!!!!
Thank you great people who took this amazing initiative and brought so much pride to todays Jewry and so much Nachass to our Rebbe
Sincerely,
TOD
THANKS FOR POSTING IT WE WERE UP ALL NIGHT WAITING TO SEE IT!!!
SPOT THE FAMILY!!!!!!!
THANKS! (CAN YOU PUT MELBOURNE PARADE UP????
SOOO beautiful!!
– I spy one very gorgeous Marcela! 🙂 You guys look like you had a blast!
love the concert
but i not happy with the organization
i would not move around – very dangerous on the sidewalks
and 5 pp from our chabad house were literally crushed trying to enter a bike show that was 1 hour late
if we are going to open these things up then we must do better
come back..i miss u…..!!!!!
tia broji
I had participated in the great event! IN THE BOILING HOT SUN! (and yes, to 93 – it did rain 3 drops), they even gave out sun-tan-lotion!!! hope to see u there next year – again! (next year lag baomer is also sunday!!!)
n’eNow
Go Hershy (for heading them) and Sholom! Great DRC’s 🙂
now this is what i call amazing photography! loved the first few esp the one with MBD and A Fried.
I would love for my kids to be able to see a rerun of the video. so they should see what a real lag b’omer parade is. We were not able to watch it live since we were doing our event just then.
from ann arbor
Beautiful Float! Amazing!
wow that was cool
It was realy funny!!!!!!!!
You rock!!!!
this thing was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cool
it waz a blast!!!!!!!!!!
it waz a blast!!!!!!!!!!
Thats Choni Grunblatt with his son, I saw him walking around..
israel
cool
Are you the Banayans? If you aren’t forget this but if u are… this is Shaina in Toronto! 😉
I live in toronto. Whats ur last name maybe i know you.
benny i miss youuuu
Tia M.
we feel like we were there
Great Big Parades Rock!!!!!!!!!
Goooo Spacey!!! Glad to see you know whats flying 😉
Love… Guess who? 🙂
it was beyond fantastic!!! go Rodelleh and Bracha!!! smile-so-square!!! u guyz rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the parade was awwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeesuuuummmmmmmmmmm
notice choni grunblatt the most voted jewish star in one of the pictures!!!!!!!!!!
love you brother!!!!!!!!
nej
Hope somebody has a video of the tehilim of this thousands of people for Rubashkin to show the judge!!!!!!! Beautiful!
where i uncle moishy?
Thank you Ha-shem for the beautiful weather! Thank you for giving us the opportunity in making a gigantic Kidush Ha-shem and Kidush Shem Lubavitch! I’m confident that both The Rebbe and Rabbi J.J. Hecht were most satified and happy with the outcome. Now, how about Moshiach,,??!! Once and for all!!!… IT’S PAST DUE,,,PLEASE REMIT,,, SEND MOSHIACH NOW!!!
Looks like the BIG PARADE was a BIG HIT!!!!
wow what an amazing parade– it really was a gr888888 parade- thank u collive for providing the live feed!! ( and for all those who made the parade the gr8 success that it was)
I wanna hold onto this amazing feeling of achdus all year round – wow!!!
Guess what!!!!!! it started getting cloudy….even trickled 3 drops & then NISEI NISSIM! The sun reappeared!!!!
(I guess we should really be happy it didn’t snow never mind rain!) Thank You Hashem!!
is there a way to re-play the video for those who were unable to see it this morning?
we loved it thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!
we know whos really the lifeline behind all this!!!
time to get some sslleeeep 🙂
-ur bestest BRHS volunteers
we watched it with our family and 3 neighbors
hatzlacha rabba umeruba b’gu”r
I was there and loved every moment of it. Huge crowd, lively and well organized. Even little glitches like the frozen video screen were calmly adressed. It was beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for all the work that went into this. I especialy loved the floats and marching bands, I know how hard the schools worked on them. Great Job.
There were over 20,000 log ins to watch on COL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we were busy helping out with event here in manchester u.k. b”h with a great hatzlocha. BUT NOW we are eager to see the event in crown heights, we would really be thankful if you would put a video that we could watch.
kids kids kids !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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THE BEST PARADE!
from san antonio texas 🙂
thank u 770
Yes, I was there and saw it. Hashem created everyhing in this world with a purpose and perhaps he created tzfatim to remind us how much we really do need moshiach (perhaps a violent reminder, bit a reminder nonetheless). Moshiach now!
watching from cincinnati!! wowwww
it was amazing from london, england
glad you got nice weather in London it was pouring
Thank you as usual for allowing all of us out of town to be part of the wonderful events happening in Crown Heights… I hope the organizers of the parade thanked you bc you guys deserved it the most!!!!!
Lots of memories…
Great to be part of it!!
Making chessidim United Global.
bracha, amsterdam!
this rox
ayyyyyyyy whats everyone watching. I can’t see anything from Montana besides some cows. Thank you Hashem from the gorgeous weather I’m watching it live. rks blds
Thxs alot!!! we enjoyed the parade!!!!
😀
Moshiach NoW!
Laid up in bed and unable to attend local parade in toronto. But it felt great to “participate” by watching the NY GREAT PARADE!!! Thanks!
What a Kiddush Hashem. So proud of you all.
Leshono Habo B’Yerushalayim
Uncle Yossi Rabbi Goldstein enjoyed the parade from Poway California!!
THANKYOU THAT WAS GREAT!!!
couldn’t participate in my hometown..watched entire parade,live,from c.o.l. for 3 and half hrs..was takeh a great parade.yashir koiach..
awsome! i dont have to boil in the sun at the parade and i still see my kids
The great parade is being watched from Africa and is the best parade I have ever seen
Thank You col!!!
from jerusalem
Thank you from Chicago! You make the Rebbe proud!
hey!!! nice to see u mendy 🙂
oh that was was sooooooooooooooo much fun
Did Chidah Levitansky’s band play already?
thank you it was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!
did u see after the pesukim????????
Beautiful event! Extraordinary idea!
thanks to yoni zigelboum for the song selection of the concert.
So glad you have nice weather there!!!!
rewind?
What a beautiful event……At least I was able to watch it remotely
Nathan….Chabad of Town of Oyster Bay
that’s AMAIZING !!!!!!
thanks so much
from paris france
Great Job!!!
It is great to be able to see the parade. Thank you very much from Panama
Split screen!!
Anyone using a mac?
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I am ill at home and coulnd not get to a parade but BH i am watching all the way from Beit Shemesh Israel
Thanks
TORONTO!
THIS EVENT ROX!!!
yay so happy we can watch u guyz while we enjoy our own parade!
from around the world
i am watcing from michigan
Was in Meron last night, now feeling like im already back in crown heights. Amazing!!!
Pleasure to see such incredible achdus!!!
Thanks col and all that made this happen!!!
L T
thanks so much!
watching from switzerland
Trying to connect from Sydney,
Its like we are missing all the fun!!!
Popcorns Popd, staying up… Please have pity!!!!
What an exciting and inspiring event. Top-quality entertainment by any criteria. Thank you, COL, for bringing the parade into my living room.
go avram fried! im watching him right now he ROXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxxx
Beautiful – spetacular. Can’t wait for the rebbes apperance.
The sound is better now!
The great parade is being watched in Africa!!!
Nice job!!
I love it!!!!!!
Im watching from Brazil and is so awesome!! Loving to be able to watch from here!! I feel like i was there!!
1:00am here in melbourne
thx
Thank you
CANT WAIT IM ON NOW AND HE SAYS 7 MINUTES!!!! WHY NOT NOW?!?!?!!? IM WIGGLING IN MY CHAIR SO MUCH, I THINK ITS BREAKING!
from europe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
toda
thanx from miami florida
thanx from miami florida
such a kidush hashem
did u win?
As 10:00am EST in NY is 12:00am (midnight) EST in Melbourne & Sydney – Australia, please can you post the video (or atleast the highlights) of this parade, so that we can enjoy seeing this great event. Leshono Habo BiYerusholayim…..Venizke Zehn Zich Mitn Rebbe’n doh Lematoh…..Now Mamosh!
I will be there. I have my short and I am ready.
waiting by computer screen all night! cant wait to see such an exciting event!
we thank you from manhathan
can u post a video, in australia its in the middle of the night
Looking forward to watching it all the way from the UK
thank you from mayanot!!!!!
THIS MEANS SO MUCH TO ME NO ONE CAN EVEN UNDERSTAND….THANX COL U ROK!
thanks from melbourne!
AS I WONT BE ABLE TO GO ON THIS TIME 🙁 PLZ!
someone fro melb
can’t wait to watch!
thanx so so much from LA!!!!!!