One Sunday they decided to cross the border and visit the Mexican town of Tijuana. They remained there the entire week, and on Friday morning they decided it is time to return. However, to his shock, at the border he was refused reentry into the United States. His visa was for a one time visit, and by leaving the States, the visa was no longer valid. He pleaded with the immigration guard, that he had another few months on his visa, but to no avail.
This cutting edge, fast moving — yet inspiring — 1-minute video on the weekly Parsha was created by Yitzchok Schmuckler from Montreal, and will be a new weekly feature here on CrownHeights.info. This week’s video for Parshas Mikeitz is titled: Who do you want to be?
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe encouraging the singing at a children’s rally.
Dr. Yitzchok Block (1930-2017) was a professor of philosophy and Chabad campus emissary at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Canada. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in February of 2008.
In this rare color photograph, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe can be seen intensely watching the Menorah candles he had just lit, in what was to be his last Chanukah, six weeks before his passing on Yud Shvat, 1950.
JLI presents two thought-provoking and inspiring short videos for Chanukah, titled ‘The Immortal Flame’ and ‘Supernatural.’
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha — Mikeitz. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Is this world one big Dream? Plus: Bonus video for Chanukah on how we can invite miracles into our lives in the extended article.
There’s an important lesson we can learn from the candles that we light each night of Chanukah.
Menachem Benchemon of Visual-Torah.com created a Chanukah menorah companion and made it available to the community for free download.
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.
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.
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.”
“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?”
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.
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.
This week’s Living Torah program from JEM shines a light on the charity of philanthropists Mr. and Mrs. Mel Landau of Miami.
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?
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