JLI’s newest course, Survival of a Nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the miraculous Israeli victory in the Six-Day War. To introduce the course to thousands of students across the globe, JLI created a documentary series summarizing the events of the War. The complete 8-Part Mini-Series is now online, and can be viewed in the extended article.
Rabbi Mentlick arrived in London and it was arranged that he will stay overnight in the house of the chossid Reb Yosef Avrohom Kagan. Reb Yosef welcomed him warmly, gave him a nutritious meal and asked him, “What time is the boat supposed to leave tomorrow, and when do you have to board?”
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe introducing his aide, Dr. Nissan Mindel, to the President of Israel, Mr. Zalman Shazar, in 1966.
JLI’s newest course, Survival of a Nation, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the miraculous Israeli victory in the Six-Day War. As part of the course, JLI created this video, “The Battle for Jerusalem,” that tells the story of Israel’s 1967 battle to rescue Jerusalem from Jordanian assault, and the ensuing liberation of the Kosel and the Har Habayis, and the reunification of Jerusalem.
Mr. Louis Goldstein is the owner of A-Z Paper products in Sydney, Australia, where he was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in July of 2016.
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Shelach is titled: Ladies First.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Shlach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we overcome our fears?
Enhancing faith is a remedy for eradicating fears. Faith is certainty and fear is uncertainty. Every day of our life we have a decision to make: Which lens will I see the world through? Fear or Faith? Rabbi Pinchas Taylor shares a short parable with universal relevance, emphasizing the importance of feeding our faith.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 166, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Should We Be as Loving to Those ‘Going Down’ as to Those ‘Going Up’? How to Prepare Children for Summer Camp without Frightening Them? How about Male Infertility? What Should I Tell My Kids about their Non-Jewish Grandparents?
Weighing in on the debate over Tznius that was sparked by a letter to the parents of Crown Heights girls’ school Bnos Menachem, Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this controversy, while tying it into this week’s Parsha.
After discussing it among themselves and being unable to come up with an appropriate answer, the Chasidim decided to present this question to the Alter Rebbe’s oldest son, Rabbi DovBer, who was appointed to be their mashpia.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Bracha after Yomtov, circa early 1970s.
Mrs. Esther Sternberg is the director of the Shabbos Candle Lighting Campaign, a division of the Lubavitch Women’s Organization. She lives with her family in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. She was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in her home in July of 2012.
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Beha’alosecha is titled: Worth the Wait.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Beha’alosecha. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Is it possible to change G-d’s Mind?
What can we learn from the different way the Allied powers responded to Germany following its defeat in World War I vs. World War II? In this first edition of a new weekly video series, Rabbi Pinchas Taylor, Shliach in Plantation, FL, explains in a concise way how negativity within cannot gain strength when we are filled with a positive attitude.
From the proposed 2011 circumcision ban in San Francisco to clashes between religion and advocates for same-gender marriage, recent legal developments have raised serious questions about how U.S. law will continue to protect religious custom, law, and practice. As a result, the Jewish community now must consider the trajectory of religious liberty in the United States—and how the constitutional protections afforded religion will meet its communal aspirations.
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