This special film presentation, made in celebration of Jerusalem’s 50th anniversary of its reunification, was directed by Crown Heights filmmaker and producer Daniel Finkelman, featuring a special appearance and score by Gad Elbaz.
When Yaakov Shwekey brought Eli, a bar mitzva boy, and a few of his friends from The Special Children’s Center to Israel to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah, he never dreamed he would have to step in and help Eli fulfill his obligation on this momentous occasion.
Jewish music star Benny Friedman presents Chapter 2 of his new series: Benny Baderech. In this episode, Benny travels to Mexico City. Join him as he takes a trip through this beautiful city, joined by the legendary Mordechai Ben David, for a wedding to remember!
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?
A video was caught of a CNN correspondent preparing and staging a group of Muslims holding up signs in solidarity with the victims of the UK terror attacks.
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.
“Let Me Be” is Jewish singing star Gershon Veroba’s protest against a world media that is biased against the Jewish people. It reminds the world that we are wasting time and lives, reiterates our unbreakable connection with Jerusalem and simply says “enough is enough.”
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?
When Rabbi Yossie Shemtov turned 60, community members didn’t give him a tie or a gift certificate. Instead, nearly 60 men surprised him on his Hebrew birthday, each one wearing tefillin.
Tzvi Aron, the brother of Levi Aron, who kidnapped and dismembered a lost 8-year-old boy in Borough Park in 2011, has been found dead in the same Brooklyn home where detectives uncovered the gruesome remains of Leiby Kletzky nearly six years ago.
Terrorism struck the United Kingdom once again tonight, after a vehicle mowed down pedestrians on the London Bridge before the occupants got out and began stabbing patrons at nearby bars and restaurants.
After conquering the Israeli radio waves with his hit song Bekarov (Yitgadal), singing star Simche Friedman released this entertaining music video, to a song titled Chosson Kallah, marking the beginning of the “wedding season” following the holiday of Shavuos.
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.
The day on which we received the Torah from the Creator should be exciting, but knowing that our ancestors learned Torah long before it was given on Har Sinai kind of puts a damper on things . . . until we understand what actually happened. My Judaism has made a short engaging video that clarifies what exactly changed on Shavuos in lay man’s terms.
The Rebbe would wish people before Shavuos a blessing coined by the Previous Rebbe, “Kabbolas Hatorah Besimcha Ubipnemiyus – to receive the Torah joyfully and with inner meaning.” JEM presents a beautiful playlist of videos connected to the holiday of Shavuos.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on the holiday of Shavuos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the message of Shavuos?
