Jewish Educational Media Video Catalog

Living Torah
Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS: $25, CD ROM: $20

Running Time:
Approximately 60 minutes. 4 – 5 issues, 15 minutes each.
Yiddish with English subtitles

A subscription based, weekly Video Magazine Featuring the Rebbe. Each video has 4 – 5 weekly segments on topics related to the Parshaa Hashavuah, holidays, and current events. Each segment contains a clip from an address of the Rebbe, a “Special Moment” from the archives, a personal “Eye to Eye” encounter, and a Chassidic Niggun.

Cornerstones
Kinus Volume 1

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS: $25, CD ROM: $20

Running Time:
28 minutes
English and Yiddish with English subtitles

 

A glimpse at some new Lubavitch building projects around the world.

In a fast-paced, thrilling trip around the globe, Cornerstones visits 98 new Chabad facilities erected and purchased by Chabad-Lubavitch in every corner of the world.

Cutting back and forth to an address by the Rebbe on his 70th birthday, the Rebbe's vision of reaching out to every Jew, and its fulfillment by his emissaries become one and the same.

Horizons
Kinus Volume 2

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS: $25, CD ROM: $20

Running Time:
30 minutes
English and Yiddish with English subtitles

 

A trip with 80 couples embarking on the Rebbe's Shlichus around the globe.

From Siberia to Shanghai , Boca Raton to Buenos Aires , these Shluchim and Shluchos of the Rebbe tell us about their motivations, challenges and their successes in their new mission in life: bringing the beauty of Torah-true Judaism to communities large and small.

The presentation includes excerpts of several talks by the Rebbe on the topic of personal sacrifice for Jewish education.

Embers
Kinus Volume 3

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS: $25, CD ROM: $20

Running Time:
23 minutes
English and Yiddish with English subtitles

 

Defying the bloody rule of ruthless dictators, the Rebbes Of Chabad-Lubavitch risked their lives to keep Yiddishkeit alive across the Soviet Union.

Despite arrest & torture, they succeeded in maintaining an underground that fought communist regimes with stunning resolve. Their efforts enabled the embers of Judaism to outlive those who have calculated its destruction.

In Embers watch remarkable films of the Jewish underground and learn the story of their survival. Witness a cold war-era talk by the Rebbe, in which he openly criticizes the Russian government and predicts its demise. See the transformation of the secretive network into an open and proud religious infrastructure. Observe the Rebbe's Shluchim, as they perpetuate his message of love in towns and cities across today's former Soviet Union.

The circle is closed as the president of Russia condemns his predecessor's deeds, and opens the doors of Moscow's new Jewish center.

Pioneers
Kinus Volume 4

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS: $25, CD ROM: $20

Running Time:
32 minutes
English and Yiddish with English subtitles

 

The story of Chabad Chassidic settlement in the Holy Land from the 1700's, and the broad frontiers of today’s Chabad. Woven together with talks of the Rebbe about the Holy Land.

Challenge
Kinus Volume 5

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS: $25, CD ROM: $20

Running Time:
23 minutes
English and Yiddish with English subtitles

 

The Rebbe spearheaded a Jewish revolution in the 20th century.

The Rebbe's message was as old as the Torah itself, yet his approach was as rousing as dawn. He urged each person, in personal and communal life, to never be satisfied with yesterday's achievements or today's successes, but to soar tomorrow to even greater heights.

Challenge is an inspiring selection of public talks and private meetings with the Rebbe, in which he edifies growth, responsibility and love. In all matters of life, the Rebbe teaches, one must never cease to strive ever higher.

Waves
Kinus Volume 6

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL)

Retail Price:
VHS: $20

Running Time:
14 minutes
English and Yiddish with English subtitles

 

How every thought, speech, and deed can make a world of difference.

Although today’s world is a scary place, as evident from the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, one good deed can tip the scales. In Waves, hear how the Rebbe explain how each deed, however insignificant it may seem, is universally important.

My Pesukim

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS: $20, CD ROM: $15

Running Time:
23 minutes
English and Yiddish with English subtitles

 

My Pesukim features the Twelve Torah Passages as recited by young boys and girls in the Rebbe's presence. Watch as the Rebbe affectionately observes the children recite the Pesukim, and say along. Hear a short explanation from the Rebbe on each of the Pesukim.

Peace Upon the Land

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS: $25, CD ROM: $20

Running Time:
58 minutes
English and Hebrew versions available.

 

The Torah Solution to Achieving True Peace in Israel

Throughout Jewish history, through times serene and turbulent, the People of Israel looked to the Torah for guidance and stability.

“Only through steadfast adherence to Torah principles,” the Rebbe insisted “can Israel achieve true peace.”

Peace Upon the Land presents a retrospective of several of Israel's military successes and her failures, and spells out a clear formula for achieving true peace and security in the region. The Rebbe's words and actions during each of these confrontations are timeless lessons to be applied to any situation.

Included is never-before-seen footage of the Rebbe's pronouncements on the eve of the 1967 Six-Day-War, and many other talks embodying the Rebbe's approach to, and special relationship with, the Land of Israel.

Four Points of Radiance

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL)

Retail Price:
VHS: $25

Running Time:
38 minutes
English

How four Chasidic Masters set the agenda for Judaism in Their times.

Three hundred years ago, Israel son of Eliezer was born in the town of Okup in the Carpathian Mountains. Later on in life Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov began the “Chasidic revolution,” changing the face of Judaism forever.

One hundred years later, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov's successor, was arrested by Czar Paul I for fomenting revolution within Jewish society. After his vindication and release, his intellectual Chasidic system, known as Chabad, took on deeper expression, attracting the elite of Jewish scholarship.

One hundred years ago, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn of Lubavitch, also known as the “Maimonides of Chasidic Thought,” founded the Chabad-Lubavitch Yeshiva system, ensconcing the philosophy of his forebears in a thematic system.

Close to fifty years ago, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of Lubavitch undertook a worldwide effort to touch the life of every Jew, and to affect the morals of all humanity, with the depth and warmth of Chasidic teaching.

In honor of the triple-centennial, award-winning filmmaker Elliot Caplan sets out with a group of international scholars from several disciplines of Judaic Studies, to learn about the evolution of Chasidism. In his first-ever film on a Jewish topic, Caplan examines the messages and social agendas of these Four Points of Radiance on the Chasidic horizon.

Tishrei with the Rebbe

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS Boxed set: $58 ($29 individually)
CD ROM set: $44 ($22 individually)

Vol. #1 Running Time: 70 minutes

Vol. #2 Running Time: 90 minutes

English and Hebrew versions available

From the solemnity of the High-Holidays to the celebration of the Festival of Joy, experience the passion and excitement of Chassidim as they celebrate the events of Tishrei in the presence of their beloved Rebbe.

As captured by newscasters' cameras and archival films, Tishrei with the Rebbe is masterfully edited into a colorful mosaic. The sights and sounds of tradition come alive in this poignant and illuminating documentary.

Davening with the Rebbe

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL), Video CD ROM, Audio CD, Audio Cassette

Retail Price:
VHS $29, Video CD ROM: $22, Audio CD: $10, Audio Cassette: $5

Running Time:
45 minutes
English

Embers

This close up view is a rare opportunity to see and hear the Lubavitcher Rebbe pray.

Excerpted from various films and videotapes, the program includes shacharis, aliyot, succot prayers with lulav and esrog and visits to the Ohel.  We see and hear the Rebbe leading the morning prayers on the yahrzeit of his mother.  Original music by Yitzchak Perlman, Yaron Gershovsky, Andy Statman, and Susan Stolovy comlement the presentation.

This inspiring and instructive video includes an informative, 44 page, follow-along guide in Hebrew and English which includes the laws associated with davening.

America is no Different

Available formats:
VHS with Companion Book (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS $39, CD ROM: $25 (does not include book)

Running Time:
40 minutes

A selection of vintage film clips of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe 1929-1950.

In 1929, two years after escaping a death sentence by the communist regime the sixth Lubavitch Rebbe arrived in New York for a 10 month tour of the United States.

At the time, the outlook for Judaism in America was bleak. The Rebbe boldly declared: “America is no different”: the New World is no less suitable for a Torah-observant way of life then the “old home” and will yet serve as a fostering ground for Yiddishkeit.

Ten years later, in 1940, after a narrow escape from the Nazis, the Rebbe again arrived in New York, this time to settle there and build a new home for Yiddishkeit upon the destruction of European Jewry.

The subsequent flowering of Judaism in America under the leadership of his son-in-law and successor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson finds its origins in these happenings.

These vintage film clips document the dawning of this era in Jewish history. The album provides photographs, documents and newspaper clippings that edify these consequential events.

The Rebbe Speaks
19 kislev

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL) and CD ROM

Retail Price:
VHS $25, CD ROM: $20

Running Time:
45 minutes

Yiddish with English narration and subtitles.

Selected excerpts of addresses by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the occasion of the 19th of Kislev.

The 19th of the Hebrew month of Kislev is the day on which Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the first Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, was released from prison in Czarist Russia in 1798. Subsequently, Chassidism took on a new vitality. The date is known as “Rosh Hashana for Chassidism.”

Segments include:
The Alter Rebbe leaves the synagogue on Yom Kippur – a story,
The wellsprings of Chassidism,
The king's precious stone,
Reaching out to gentiles,
Doing is everything,

Also: A glimpse into the Peter-Paul Fortress where the Alter Rebbe was held.

Farbrengen Series Volumes 1 – 8

Available formats:
VHS NTSC

Retail Price:
VHS: $25 each

Running Time:
90 Minutes each
Yiddish with English subtitles

Choice segments from 8 Special Farbrengens:

  • 19 Kislev 5742
  • 24 Teves, 5741
  • 10 Shvat 5743
  • Purim, 5747
  • Purim, 5732
  • 11 Nissan, 5742
  • 18 Elul, 5742
  • 20 Av, 5742.

Each film is approx. 90 minutes long and has several talks and Niggunim.

Farbrengen Series Volumes 9 - 11

Available formats:
VHS NTSC

Retail Price:
VHS: $25 each

Running Time:
90 Minutes each
Yiddish with English subtitles

Choice segments from 3 Special Farbrengens:

  • 10 Shevat, 5732
  • Purim, 5733
  • 11 Nissan, 5745

Each film is approx. 90 minutes long and has several talks and Niggunim.

Farbrengen
Vov Tishrei, 5742-1981
Commemorative Edition

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC), 2 cassettes

Retail Price:
VHS: $35 for set

Running Time:
180 Minutes
Yiddish with English subtitles

The sixth day of Tishrei marks the Yahrzeit, in 1964, of the Rebbe's mother, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson.

On this day, the Rebbe would customarily deliver a discourse completing the study of a Talmudic Tractate, and would often talk about the vital role of the Jewish woman, gleaning lessons from his mother's life. As the date falls during the high-holiday season, the Rebbe would usually talk on the themes of the holidays and the New Year.

This Farbrengen, commemorating the Rebbetzin's 17th Yahrzeit, was televised live via satellite around the world.

Farbrengen 11 Nissan, 5745 May 2, 1985 Commemorative Edition

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC), 2 cassettes

Retail Price:
VHS: $35 for set

Running Time:
4 Hours
Yiddish with English subtitles

Drawing extensively on Scripture, the Talmud, Kabala and Chassidism, the Rebbe would speak to issues of contemporary social and ethical concern. During periodic pauses in the Rebbe's talk, the thousands in attendance would sing Chassidic melodies as the Rebbe greeted the participants with blessings of “L'Chaim!”

To experience a Farbrengen with the Rebbe is to glimpse a meeting of the Divine and the human, the mystical and the mundane, the timely and the timeless.

Farbrengen
10 Shevat 5732-1972
Commemorative Edition

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC), 2 cassettes

Retail Price:
VHS: $35 for set

Running Time:
4.5 Hours
Yiddish with English voiceover by Rabbi Manis Friedman

The tenth day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, marks the yahrzeit of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, and the date on which his son-in-law, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson formally assumed leadership of the movement. This video features short segments of several farbrengens with the Rebbe, including never before released footage.

Farbrengen 10 Shevat 5735

Available formats:
VHS (NTSC & PAL)

Retail Price:
VHS: $25

Running Time:
35 Minutes

Yiddish and English versions (voiceover from Rabbi Manis Friedman) available

The tenth day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, marks the yahrzeit of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, and the date on which his son-in-law, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson formally assumed leadership of the movement. This video features short segments of several farbrengens with the Rebbe, including never before released footage.

Chanukah Gelt
Holiday 1

Available formats:
Interactive CD ROM

Retail Price:
CD: $ 10

Pop this piece of Chanukah gelt into your computer and kindle a brilliantly produced multimedia holiday festival. Click around a Chanukah table menu to set high quality videos, computer games, and radio dramas into motion. See Chanukah a la NASA. Tour a candle factory in Israel. Watch an authentic Italian olive oil press. Hear the story of the heroic Maccabees. The content is exciting, cutting edge, and informative.

A perfect Chanukah gift, an amazing Chanukah handout!

Virtual Shalach Manos
Holiday 2

Available formats:
Interactive CD ROM

Retail Price:
CD: $ 11

Send the virtual gift of Shalach Manos in this wondrous multimedia experience. Enter into Shushan the capital where videos, songs and games come to life. Watch a special Purim edition of “Living Torah,” then sing along with classic Purim songs and recreate some tasty holiday recipes.

Enjoyable, informational and affordable, treat yourself and your friends with a basket full of fun shrunk down into one remarkable CD!

Virtual Shana Tovah
Holiday 3

Available formats:
CD ROM in Greeting Card

Retail Price:
CD: $12

When is a Shanah Tovah more than just a card? When it is produced by JEM and contains the latest in interactive CDs. Holiday songs, exciting Rosh Hashanah games, 5 new videos, a program to personalize and send electronic Shanah Tova cards, Torah thoughts, traditional Rosh Hashanah recipes, a Holiday Guide, and more.

The CD, which functions as both a PC and Audio CD, will be enjoyed by the entire family!

 

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