It has been a few months now that COLlive consistently attended family simchas and other social and happy occasions in the Crown Heights community.
You may have seen our cameramen Meir Dahan, Eli Shpiner, Mendy Lewis or Yossi Percia arriving at a L’Chaim, a wedding and at times, even a Bris or Bar Mitzvah.
We were labeled by the occasional cynic as a ‘simcha website,’ but we took that as a compliment because that was exactly our point.
News and media outlets tend to be compulsive when it comes to the morbid and dark side of life, over-emphasizing drama, crime, conflict, hate and death.
We, as many others, grew tired of the tasteless reporting of infighting and car crashes. We knew that Crown Heights – as a neighborhood where the Rebbe lived in and blessed – has a bright side. Our goal was to show it.
While covering events from Lubavitch communities around the globe, we indeed found a host of positive newsworthy happenings.
Parents learning with their children, Shluchim and students spending a Shabbos, free food (and even books) given out, new minyanim at 888 Montgomery and Aliya Shul, unity events and Farbrengens, television channels HBO and ABC reporting about life on Kingston Avenue.
Another step was the simcha photo galleries, which proved themselves an instant hit. COLlive’s staff were welcomed warmly at each simcha. Family members and friends worldwide enthusiastically viewed the photos from afar, feeling a part of, and sharing in, the simcha.
When entering a simcha, COLlive’s photographer will always approach the family (the chosson, his father or father-in-law) and ask for permission to photograph the private event.
As some of you learned, a photo is not taken when objection is indicated. The same is with a published photo that we’re asked to remove.
Our photographer has also provided the full gallery to many families at a reduced price (email him at [email protected]).
To date, we have carried close to 200 Chabad simchas and look forward to virtually recording many more. Thanks for welcoming us into your homes and making us your favorite website.
Best,
Yehuda Ceitlin and staff
Feel free to call 718-679-9450 or write to us www.COLlive.com/sendmail.rtx
very nice keep it up
very clear and beautifully stated. it makes me agree. (not that i didn’t in the first place 🙂
i sincerely hope ur a speaker
yes u are speakign for many girls…but I am also speakign for manay many many girls!!! I understand that when U get engaged u want ur pictures to stay private. But like what the article says, first… they wrote that they ask before posting pictures of the girls and furthermore… many people want to see their friends, their kallah at their happy time and not have to fish through facebook and beg ur friends to send u a fuzzy picture to ur e-mail where u can barely tell where the kallah is standing. I very much appreciate the pictures of… Read more »
the pictures are great and really capture a moment everyone wants to remember BUT i personally, and many girls are with me on this, dont think its tznius for any pictures to be put up from the women’s side. this should be a flatout rule. the kallah’s pics should also stay off the web. its not tznius and inappropriate for the many men who check this website to view pics of unrelated women. including the kallah. it makes us uncomfortable BESIDES for the fact that many pictures of the women’s sides show women who are not dressed completely tzniusly (maybe… Read more »
Only positive? No such thing!
Do they have to stop asking people to say Tehillim for a sick person?
Not notify about a levaya?
Not report a crime?
Not raise an issue that needs care (tznius, achdus)?
News is about life and life is not always positive. But we have these simches to remind us the good times.
What a insightful #40 comment. The rebbe asked again and again that we tell him besuros tovos! With a the talk about a shidduch problem this is surely our moment of hope
A bochur
You are trying to say something positive while intentionaly ripping other sites… thats not positive.
now you have set a high standard, will you keep your word and give only positive and honest reporting?
time will tell.
collive is much more easier to read and find exactly what you are looking for.thanks
I would like to congratulate Collive on the unbelievable work they have done to bring happy, exciting and interesting up-to-date news to all of us here in the Lubavitch world. With the layout so clear and easy for the eye, it is a pleasure for Collive to be the hompage of all the computers I have. Fantastic work!
A big ang HUGE yasher koach to Yudi Ceitlin and his devotion to bringing happiness to our lives. Thank you!
Post more and also from other places other than CH, like Montreal for example!!!
Keep those Simchas coming. Just for the record, it is a long tradition in Lubavitch to publish Simchas of Anash. In the city of Lubavitch approximately 100 years ago, a magazine was published called “He-Och.” In it there was a column called “Shalom Achim” which reported of Simchas by Anash. In Warsaw Poland, during the 30’s, a Torah magazine was published by the Lubavitcher Yeshiva called “Hatomim” which was partially edited by our Rebbe. In it there was a column called “Shalom Achim” which reported of Simchas by Anash. In the United States during the 40’s & 50’s a magazine… Read more »
thanks for all the pics!!
chassidim zenen ain mishpacha!!!!!!!!!
MOSHIACH NOW!!!!
every day a few times a day i take a look at collive.com and its so great! and the best part is – the simchos!! so please keep it up yudi, dont ever think of resigning because it would be sucha shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but ithink the name is a bit wierd no? like you are doing it like there is col and collive. like col is dead or something. maybe reconsider a new name? like colenglish or something like that
thank you Y. ceitlin and yossi percia and all the wonderful staff
A fan
By my wedding no one asked my father or myself, he just came in and snapped away!!
And although the idea is a nice one, just because we live in crown heights does not mean that one can not have some privacy.
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the pix are great but when someone does not want to get photographed and the photographer takes pictures anyway of that person knowing that she doesn’t want to thats s/t i don’t understand. maybe teach them manners
shkoiach shkoiach shkoiach laasos chayil…
The Aibershter should bentch you with many more years of sharing besuros tovos!
Hatzlocha Rabo and Yasher Koach
it is great to see pictures of simchas but don’t forget the tzinus invovled in posting pictures that shouldn’t be posted
I agree with No. 8 & no.11…..anyways I do like your bright site & I”H ot ot you should post pics of moshiachs arrival!!
I think it’s wonderful to view the simchas of others. Unfortunately there is far too much negative news.
we should have only simchas to post always!!! BH and hopefully, soon we will se about the coming of moshiach BH!!!
yes, col is different from all the others. all the others have some axe to grind, or are in it for the money. it is clear from your coverage that your main goal is to make a kidush hashem.
yaarich yamim al mamlachtoi!
really, COL surpasses any other chabad news site out there! yasher koach
please why are you even defending yourselves you guys are great and have the most interesting website and if anyone has a problem they should look at your cite
Pics of brisim!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for showing us the brighter side of things. and for not posting any hurtful, embarrassing or Loshon Horo comments. It’s about time we dwell in good = and there will be only good!
since COLLIVE has come on the air,it is a pleasure to read all the good news, they are doing a A political nice clean job, the truth is that when u want to read good news or see people enjoying a simcha u know this is the place to be, o if u want to see the bad news or see accident pictures u know where to go, and the people runing COLLIVE are not involved in any of the local politics i.e. shmira, shomrim, cop, etc. keep up the good work, they really respect the request of families, there… Read more »
This does not mean you should stop reporting about things that need repairing (i.e. tznius, antisemitism etc.)
Yshar Koach for your wonderful site
thank you very much and keep it up hashem should see that you are ready to do yuor part and take the photos he now has to do his part and make the simchos
Baruch Hashem! Lets only read about simchas.
thank you!!!!!!!!
122 Simchas and Counting
https://collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=3326
I think the Simcha photos are over the top – sometimes at a wedding you just want to get a little leibedik and wild without having to worry that the next day your pic will be plastered over the internet. And once when I was at a Lchaim after a long day, the photographer got me in a pic. with my eyes half closed, so when my pic goes up I get comments about looking bored. And I was at another event trying to lose myself in the music and Simcha when a photographer stuck his camera in my face… Read more »
thank you for the clean, great, respectable job that you’re doing.
Always a pleasure to come to this site, without worrying that hurtful or embarassing comments will be posted.
Ah Groisen Yasher Koach
you’re my homepage….. forever!!!!!!!!1
pls pls pls give us more! you have a very profesh website
a jew from LA
I love the fact that collive is there to take pictures of all the simchas!
But why post (more than once) embarrassing picture shots, and have to be told to take them down, by that time the damage was done….
otherwise its great, and we all love this service, and even better, now the baale simchas dont have to be worried to get the lechaim or other event covered, colive can now provide that service!
keep up the good work!!
By the way I’ve seen that another website started to post pictures from simcha’s, now somebody else is competing for the title.
Maybe the families asked that no photos be taken or maybe they did not invite collive
I like it…as long as I’m not in any pics! May we share many more Simchas together! Who do people call if they’re making a Simcha?
i love collive its the best!!!!!!!!!
But you also must be careful not become a paparzi site and respect that in certain situations. (like if a guy is just walking up Kingston Ave.) He may not want a picture of himself splashed across the world.
Thank You for knowing the pririties in life – And Simchas we all need!
we looovvveee the pics keep em coming!! but what happnes wen some lechaims or weddings arent on col? whys that?
keep on doing what youve been doing!
we love the site!
We love COllive , you rock!!!!
i ttly agree!!!!!!!!!