Barry's grandfather with the Rebbe Rayat"s

In conjunction with the posts of the famous Barry silver, here is a picture of his grandfather, rabbi Eliezer silver - which was chief rabbi of America and Canada for many years - with the Frierdiker Rebbe.

It’s known that he had a very strong connection with the Rebbe and Frierdiker Rebbe. this is also brought down in wikipidia about him, "Rabbi Silver was also a close friend and colleague of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, and had a great deal of correspondence with him and later his successor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson".

For more info about him check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Silver