Here’s My Story: Remove the Dirt
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.
Weekly JLI Video: Ladies First
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.
Video: How Can We Overcome Our Fears?
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?
Video: Feeding Your Fears or Feeding Your Faith?
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.
8:00pm: Preparing Kids for Camp Without Scaring Them
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?
Weekly Thought: You’re Right; Let’s Live with the Times
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.
Weekly Story: Farbreng with Reb Binyomin Kletzker
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.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Bracha after Yomtov, circa early 1970s.
Here’s My Story: The Shabbos Candle Campaign
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.
Weekly JLI Video: Worth the Wait
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.
Video: Is It Possible to Change G-d’s Mind?
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?
Video: Fill Up With Positivity
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.
Video: The State of Religious Liberty in the U.S.
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.
8:00pm: Should Young Boys Be Going to the Mikvah?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 165, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Should We Allow Our Young Boys to Go to the Mikveh? What Does Chassidus Say About Self-Affliction? How Should Families Deal with a Relative Who Intermarried? Is it Healthy for Parents to Need Validation from Children?
Weekly Story: How Do You Feel?
Dr. Weiss, who then served as the Rebbe’s physician, asked the Rebbe, “How is the Rebbe feeling?” The Rebbe replied, Being that I don’t feel anything, that is a sign that I am healthy.
Weekly Thought: Jews Don’t Fidget
What lesson can be derived from the fact that Parshas Nasso is read right after Shavuos? How does this relate to the modern gadgets available on the market now? Are Jews better off with all the time-occupying routines we have? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Nasso.
Video: One Day, Three Speeches
JLI’s newest course, Survival of a Nation, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the miraculous Israeli victory in the Six-Day War. As part of the course, JLI created a video, “One Day, Three Speeches,” that tells the story of the Rebbe’s prophetic assurances of victory on the eve of the war.
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