Rabbi Moshe Tendler is a Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and a Professor of biology as well as a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Brooklyn in May of 2010.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Nitzavim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do we know that we will repent and be blessed?
Rabbi Moshe Klein, a renowned Crown Heights Sofer, always carries a pair of Tefilin with him wherever he travels, hoping to find a Jewish man who will agree to put them on and say a prayer.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 133, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Prayer Fatigue: I Hate Davening; Should Secrets Be Kept From Our Spouses? Can We Have Yechidus with the Rebbe Today? What is the Role of a Parent in the Life of Their Married Children?
A beautiful clip that takes you on a journey through the month of Elul with a collection of unique images from some of the most memorable moments with the Rebbe during these special days has been released by JEM.
Yaakov came in and sat in one of the plush chairs, dreaming of the fortune he is about to receive and what he should do with it. All of a sudden, four burly officers entered the room and began binding his hands behind him as if he is a terrible criminal. They ignored his protests that he is here because the nobleman instructed him to come, but rather brought him outside and placed him in a waiting wagon that took him with other condemned individuals to Siberia.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe in the mid 1970s.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the week of Selichos for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen worked in the rabbinate in England and Belgium until his retirement in 2008. He is presently a scholar-in-residence at the JCC in Manhattan. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in March of 2015.
Chai Elul is one of the most important days in the Chasidic calendar, celebrating the Birthdays of both the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe. In honor of this day, JEM presents a special YouTube playlist of Sichas and unique clips related to the day and its relevance to us as Chassidim.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ki Tavo. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What should we be grateful for?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 132, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Can We Do About Rising Tuition Costs? How Can We Improve Our Educational Systems? What is the Meaning of Chai Elul Today? Is There a Standard for Applying Chassidus? What Personal Conduct is Appropriate in 770? Why the Need to Break Ourselves Through Avodah?
In this week’s Living Torah, the Rebbe discusses the founding of the Chassidus movement. How, why, and what?
There was no room for questions, the Rebbe said to go and he was going to listen. Distressfully, the Chossid picked up his bags and began trekking back on the same road he had so happily traversed the past few days, just now it was with a heavy heart, instead of the buoyant spirit he had before.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe davening before the Amud, circa late 1980s.
Dr. Mordechai Shani served as the director of the Sheba Medical Center for 33 years. He received the Israel Prize in 2009. Presently he is Professor of Healthcare Systems at Tel Aviv University. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Tel Hashomer Hospital in March of 2013.
John Hinckley, 61, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was released Saturday from a psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C.
