Video: A Lesson from the Chanukah Lights
There’s an important lesson we can learn from the candles that we light each night of Chanukah.
Free Menorah Companion Download
Menachem Benchemon of Visual-Torah.com created a Chanukah menorah companion and made it available to the community for free download.
Laws and Customs: Chanukah
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Chanukah for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Video: John Lennon, Brexit, and the Jews
This lecture by Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson on the Jewish perspective of Lennon’s hit “Imagine,” and its relevance to current societal and political trends and movements, took place at the 12th annual National Jewish Retreat.
Video: Rebbe’s Letter to Public Menorah Lightings
This new inspirational video from JEM features an English letter from the Rebbe “to all participants in public Lighting of the Chanukah Menorah in the USA.”
Chinuch Chats with Mrs. Dena Gorkin: Nurturing Happiness
“We’re very tuned into the bad… but 1,000 good things happen to us a day,” says renowned and veteran educator Mrs. Dena Gorkin, principal of Bnos Chomesh Academy, in the seventh and final installment of her video series on Chinuch. “A child’s happiness is integral to her education, but how do we actually teach happiness?”
Rebbe’s ‘Secret’ Marriage Tips Revealed
For the first time ever, in honor of his 50th wedding anniversary, 18/19 Kislev 5728-5778, Rabbi Yaakov Goldberg of Yeshivas Hadar Hatorah revealed private directives he received from the Rebbe relating to his wedding, and suggests it applies as a lesson for every Chosson and Kallah.
8:00pm: Can Chassidus Be Taught to Non-Jews?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 192, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Are We Doing Enough to Spread the Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach? Can Chassidus Be Taught to Non-Jews? Any Directives Regarding a Younger Sister Getting Married Before Her Older Sister? Chassidus Applied to Chanukah.
Video: The Far-Reaching Impact of Supporting Jewish Education
This week’s Living Torah program from JEM shines a light on the charity of philanthropists Mr. and Mrs. Mel Landau of Miami.
Weekly Story: Our Conversations
A few weeks passed and he wasn’t sufficiently satisfied with any of the Yeshivas. He knew that he had to make a decision, but it wasn’t what he wanted. One day a friend of his asked him, how is the search going and he replied, not too good. So the friend asked: and why don’t you check out Lubavitch?
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe motioning to an attendee at a farbrengen, circa 1980.
Here’s My Story: Old Wisdom for a Young Man
Rabbi Yitzchak Maier Gurary is a mashpia, spiritual mentor and teacher of Chasidic philosophy, at the Lubavitcher yeshivah in Montreal. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in January of 2011.
Video: Yud Tes Kislev with the Rebbe
On 19 Kislev 5559 (1798), the Alter Rebbe, R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi was released after being imprisoned by the Russian authorities. Today marks the anniverssary of this holiday known among Chassidim as the Rosh Hashana of Chassidus.
Timely Tales: A Child’s Cry
Countless souls are crying for the spiritual comfort of their heritage. Do not remain indifferent.
Taylor Talks: The Mechanics of Positive Thinking
We’ve all heard that we need to “Think good and it will be good,” and that this is an effective way to invite blessings into our lives. Recently there have even been secular studies that suggest a connection between our thoughts and reality. What are the mechanics of how positive thinking works? Is there a way in which we can grasp this idea in a practical sense?
Great Debates: The Public Menorah’s Legal Battle
When Chabad erected their first giant public Menorah to celebrate the Chanukah of 1975, a legal war was launched by powerful segments of the Jewish community to have public menorahs banned. Both the menorahs and the battles persist annually.
Video: How Can We Succeed in Exile?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha — Vayeishev. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we succeed in exile?
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