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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Video: 1972 Maamar
With the approach of Yud Shevat – anniversary of the passing of the Previous Rebbe and beginning of the Rebbe’s leadership – historic video of a landmark Chasidic discourse by the Rebbe has been released and will be viewed around the world.

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Monday, December 12, 2011
New DVD 19 Kislev 5744
Do you say “hareini mekabel” every morning? Do you know why?
In the 1500s Rabbi Shlomo Luria, ‘the Arizal,’ implemented the practice of starting one’s day with the statement: “I hereby accept upon myself to fulfill the Mitzvah of ‘Love your fellow as yourself.’”

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Monday, December 05, 2011
Group Gathers to Discuss Rebbe’s Recordings Brooklyn, NY
On the sidelines of the recent Conference of Shluchim, a group of individuals gathered recent to discuss an issue close to their hearts: The ongoing efforts to preserve and share the Rebbe’s recorded legacy.

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Sunday, October 02, 2011
New Rebbetzin Chana DVD from JEM!
In honor of 6 Tishrei, the 47th anniversary of the Rebbe’s mother, Rebbetzin Chana, JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project has just released a new DVD: Rebbetzin Chana, the Rebbe’s Mother.The film features a short biography of the Rebbetzin life, plus the testimony of twenty-two individuals who knew the Rebbetzin up close and personally.

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Thursday, August 25, 2011
JEM is on the road again
JEM’s My Encounter team is on the road again! This trip will be to Southern California, and will take place from Sunday Elul 5 – Wednesday Elul 15th (September 4-14th).

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Monday, July 18, 2011
MEKIMI Cheer Up Squad and JEM team up together
One family’s generous gesture created a joint effort between MEKIMI Cheer Up Squad and JEM, to team together in providing educational and inspirational DVD’s to enhance the lives of bedridden children and adults.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Rabbi Zalman Kazen OBM
Rabbi Zalman Kazen, one of the first pioneer Shluchim of the Rebbe in the United States, passed away Sunday. In 2009, he spoke to JEM's My Encounter project about his encounters with the Rebbe.

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Thursday, July 07, 2011
Niggunim video now in stores
As reported previously The Niggunim of the Rebbeim DVD from JEM is now available in stores and online.

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Friday, July 01, 2011
Special Program on the Rebbe to air on Cable TV, Dish Network
On Tuesday, Gimmel Tammuz (July 5th), at 10:00 PM ET/PT a special program will air. The hour-long program features highlights of inspiration from the Rebbe’s teachings and is geared toward the wider public.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
New Documents Uncovered, 70 Years from the Rebbe's Arrival in the US
In honor of the seventieth anniversary of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin's arrival in the United States 70 years ago today, we are pleased to present this document to the public for the first time.

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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Coming for Gimmel Tammuz - Niggunim of the Rebbeim
At any Shliach’s Shabbos table, Yeshiva, or in any Lubavitcher home, you can start singing these niggunim and someone will chime in. These are the melodies that tie us together – the niggunim of each of the Rebbeim – from the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe, down to the present.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
JEM's My Encounter Interviews Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Schochet
From JEM’s My Encounter Blog…Yesterday we went out to Wilmington, Delaware to interview Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Schochet. He was visiting his daughter and son-in-law - the Vogels, the Chabad Shluchim in Delaware – for Shavuos.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Reb Berel Weiss - relating his first encounter with the Rebbe.
Reb Berel Weiss, noted Chossid and philanthropist passed away today.
JEM's My Encounter with the Rebbe team had the Zchus of interviewing him at his home in Los Angeles, on 11 Elul, 5768, September 9, 2008 about his encounters with the Rebbe.

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Monday, May 16, 2011
Footage Sparks Memories of Historic Jewish Children’s Parades
As tens of thousands of children prepare for next week’s Jewish unity parade through the streets of the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., newly released footage of a similar 1984 event captures the energy surrounding observances of the minor holiday known as Lag B’Omer.

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Monday, May 09, 2011
Rebbe’s Parade Lag B’omer 5744 – New DVD
The uncut footage from the 1984 Lag BaOmer parade in Crown Heights is now available on DVD. It features military salutes to the Rebbe, bagpipes playing “Moshiach Now,” and tens of thousands of kinderlach reciting the 12 pesukim together. Topping it all – two beautiful Sichos that the Rebbe tailored specifically for his young audience.

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Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Shin Bet Head: "The Rebbe Foretold Al Qaeda and the Twin Towers"
A year ago, as part of the Faithful and Fortified Series, the My Encounter with the Rebbe team interviewed Yaakov Peri, Shin Bet Head from 1988 until 1994.

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Monday, May 02, 2011
21 Years Ago Today: "Those who want to harm the Jewish people can be uprooted."
ith the killing of the arch-terrorist Osama bin Laden, a talk by the Rebbe has come to light from this very date, which is eerily similar to the day's events. On the 28 of Nissan, 1990 the Rebbe gave an unexpected talk on a directive by the PLO to its international affiliates to "harm Jews around the world."

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Farbrengen on Mivtzoim
Tomorrow, as tens of thousands of Jews across the New York area will be approached by Bochurim and children on Mivtzoim in honor of the Rebbe's 109th birthday, they'll be invited to watch the Rebbe's Farbrengen and see for themselves what the celebration is all about!

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
29 Years Ago Tonight - "May it have its Effect"
As hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world are preparing for Pesach and Yud Alef Nissan by watching a historic Farbrengen with the Rebbe, the Rebbe's own note prior to the telecast has surfaced.

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Monday, April 11, 2011
Webcast of 11 Nissan 1982 Begins
The 11 Nissan farbrengen of 1982 marked the occasion of the Rebbe's 80th birthday. At that farbrengen, the Rebbe addressed the question of retirement that some people had posed to him by revealing the secret to actually growing stronger with age. After four hours of talks in which he expounded on topics including the importance of "The Moment of Silence," a lesson in time management from the Counting of the Omer, and the need to provide shmurah matzah and holiday needs to all Jews, the Rebbe then personally distributed a copy of a new printing of Tanya to each and every man and woman in attendance. The Rebbe finished handing out Tanyas at 6:15 AM.

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Friday, April 08, 2011
Vintage Satellite Footage Promotes Web Event
To promote the upcoming webcast of the Rebbe's 80th birthday Farbrengen on Jewish.TV, producers at JEM have partnered with Chabad.org to release vintage footage of the original video introduction to the 1982 satellite feed of the farbrengen. The introduction to "Celebration 80" features famous Broadway producer, Joe Papp, who became a major Chabad supporter after once seeing the Rebbe on a satellite hook-up of a farbrengen.

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Thursday, April 07, 2011
1982: The Rebbe's Farbrengen in the NY Times
This week and next thousands of viewings will be held around the world of the Rebbe's Farbrengen of Yud Alef Nissan Shnas Hashmonim.

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Sunday, April 03, 2011
Million-Dollar Challenge Set to Expand Farbrengen Project
After the success of the Purim Farbrengen of 1973, which had over 100,000 viewers, a young Lubavitcher businessman was disturbed to learn that the Farbrengen release project, scheduled to last one year, was only several months away from ending.

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Thursday, March 31, 2011
100,000+ watch Rebbe's Purim Farbrengen
We’ve received lots of regards about the Farbrengen of Purim, 1973. According to JEM’s “conservative estimates,” well over 100,000 people experienced the recently-released Purim Farbrengen with the Rebbe. It was a smashing success.

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Monday, March 14, 2011
JEM Celebrates 30 Years of Jewish Content Production
Jewish Educational Media (JEM), the video archive and multimedia arm of the Chabad- Lubavitch movement, is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. Initially incorporated to broadcast and disseminate the public sermons of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of blessed memory, JEM has since expanded its goals.

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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Recently Restored Footage of Rebbe’s 1973 Gathering Offers Challenging Message
In time for the upcoming holiday of Purim, newly restored footage of a historic 1973 Chasidic gathering presided over by the Rebbe, RabbiMenachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, is offering people around the world an inspiring and challenging message of utilizing their full potentials.

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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
'Music Notes' to debut on Yud Alef Nissan
Living Torah, the popular weekly video magazine watched around the world, is about to get a new segment.
'Music Notes,' - a collage of newly-recorded Chassidic Nigunim accompanied by still photographs from Jewish Educational Media's vast photo archive will be a once-monthly segment. The name derives from the clip's unique format: The photos are accompanied by 'notes' - information on the Nigun, photos, or background of the scene.

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Sunday, March 06, 2011
The Making of the Purim Farbrengen 5733
Thank G‑d for technology, Behind the scenes of JEM's new release of the Farbrengen from 5733 - 1973, watch this video for a glimpse of what went into putting this together.

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Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Who do you know in Miami?
After a hugely successful whirlwind trip in Montreal, the My Encounter with the Rebbe team is back on its feet and has already conducted some crucial interviews in NY. In addition, My Encounter also has a team in Israel conducting interviews, averaging four interviews every week.

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Preview of Israel Security Video at Gutnick Bar Mitzvah
Several weeks ago, for the Bar Mitzvah of Yochanan Boruch Gutnick, the son of Rabbi Yosef and Stera Gutnick, a special eight-minute preview was created of the upcoming film Faithful and Fortified Volume III: Prime Ministers.

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Sunday, February 13, 2011
The Rebbe on Egypt
As Egypt’s government crumbled in a largely bloodless revolution only two weeks old, Israel’s friends around the world worry about the future of a Middle East where one of the only bastions of relative friendship has fallen. As it turns out, events set in motion some thirty years ago provide some direction.

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Friday, February 11, 2011
Our Encounter with Montreal
The My Encounter with the Rebbe team spent a whirlwind 10 days in Montreal interviewing members of the community who had personal encounters with the Rebbe. Though the trip is over and the team is back in Crown Heights, the interviews and experiences of these special Yidden are now recorded for posterity.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
JEM's founder Hillel Dovid and his wife Sori Krinsky hang a mezuzah in the JEM office

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Monday, January 24, 2011
Montreal’s Beis Rivkah Girls are Filmmakers!
Several classes of Beis Rivkah in Montreal got to participate in a remarkable program on the Rebbe’s history.
As part of their tour to Montreal, Rabbi Yechiel Cagen, Director of the My Encounter with the Rebbe project and Senior Interviewer Rabbi Mendy Alevsky visited Beis Rivkah, conducted a seminar for the 7th and 8th grades.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011
New Transfer Method Proves Itself!
This is an exciting one. We just got back a transfer of the earliest (almost) full Farbrengen recorded on video – Yud Shevat, 5731 – 1971.
The video was restored ten years ago, but now we retransferred it with DC Video in Los Angeles.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
10-day interview marathon hits the road!
On Monday, the My Encounter with the Rebbe interview team arrived in Montreal and has already captured the testimony of 5 individuals. The rigorous interview schedule includes 25 interviews to be conducted by two experienced interviewers over a 10-day period.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Beautiful photos of Yud Shevat 5735
These pictures are from the Farbrengen that has just come out and can be purchased here and as a part of the Farbrengen Club project is also being viewed in over 150 communities worldwide, this Farbrengen has over an hour subtitled of conversations with the Rebbe, you can see the of the people named in the captions, from the Mayor Abe Beam to Herman Wouk etc…

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Numbers for Yud Shvat
1 - you. Number of people who will write to farbrengen@jemedia.org this second to order a copy for your community.
If not you, then who?
If not now, when?

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Monday, January 10, 2011
Road Trip! Watch out Montreal. C'est vrai!
Here's where you come in: You know people in Montreal. There are so many great people in this important city and we need your info on getting to them. If you know of any individuals you think should be interviewed for the project, please email the My Encounter team at interviews@jemedia.org

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Monday, January 10, 2011
Flashback: Assassination Attempt on The President
This week a crazed gunman attempted to kill US Senator Gabrielle Giffords as she stood outside a grocery store in her district.

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Sunday, January 09, 2011
Yud Shvat Farbrengen--A Taste of the Rebbe's Sichos
Yud Shvat is one of the most important days in modern Chabad history. Actually, it's one of the most important days in modern Jewish history, as it was both the date that the previous Rebbe passed away, and the date that Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson accepted leadership of the Chabad Lubavitch movement one year later. Since then, his outreach has touched the lives of so many Jews and non-Jews.

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Friday, January 07, 2011
A Call to Farbrengen by R Tzvi Grunblatt of Buenos Aires
Last week, Rabbi Grunblatt visited JEM's new offices, when he gave JEM's staff a piece of his mind for not doing a better job getting the Farbrengens to the masses.

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Friday, December 31, 2010
Can you Identify?
The 24th of Teves is the Yahrzeit of the Alter Rebbe, founder of Chabad Chassidus.
Communities worldwide will gather in Chabad houses to watch the latest video release from JEM, Jewish Educational Media, whose goal is to preserve and promote video and audio material of the Rebbe.

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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Communities around the world Farbrenging with the Rebbe
The 24th of Teves, the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, is celebrated by--what else? Farbrenging with the Rebbe!
This year in over 115 communities worldwide, Jews of all backgrounds will gather to watch a video of the Rebbe's farbrengen.

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Baruch Dayan HaEmes
Rabbi Wolf Greenblass, zt”l, of Montreal, passed away this week at the age of 94. He committed his life to educating Jewish students from nonobservant families on the beauty and intricacies of living a Torah life.

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The Snow Will Not Stop the Editors!
Interviewing all the people in the world who’ve ever had yechidus with the Rebbe is a mammoth task. This week we were snowed out of 2 different interviews in the New York metropolitan area. But even the post office, which prides itself in delivering the mail through “snow, sleet or storm” cannot top a group of people who are set on learning and sharing the life story of the Rebbe – because they have the Rebbe’s own model to never be deterred as their own example. Which is how we spent our snow days in our editing caves, reviewing this great interview we caught last week with Dr. Naftali Loewenthal, a Lubavitcher professor in University in London.

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Monday, December 27, 2010
Our new office
after six months of hard work our new office is finally ready, now our long planned and spoken preservation project can finally get in full swing in it's porfessional work-friendly enviroment facility.
Check it out:

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
New DVD from JEM has full hour Sicha on Family planning.
JEM has released a full 3 hour plus Farbrengen from 24 Tevet 5741 – 1980, two of the main Sichos are subtitled in 6 languages, here is a link to the study guide in 3 languages.
This release is part of the recent initiative "Farbrengen Club" to release a full Farbrengen every month (see here for more details)

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Monday, December 20, 2010
Farbrengen Club!
Every Thursday night for the past several years, a group of Bochurim in 770 has watched an unedited Farbrengen video provided by JEM. For days before the viewing, the Bochurim studied and prepared the Farbrengen, after which they watched the video together starting at 9:30 late into the night.

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Monday, November 08, 2010
JEM Rushes Banquet Video
The video of the 5771 Kinus Hashluchim banquet was ready on DVD Monday morning after JEM editors spent another night at the office.

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Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Rebbe's Warning Of Iran
In 1979, the Rebbe warned that Iran was becoming a serious threat to world peace. A new DVD recalls the hostage crisis in Tehran.

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Journey For Cutting Edge
New York Times spotlights a content management approach that will be used by JEM to allow public access to videos of the Rebbe.

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Monday, October 04, 2010
236,000 Photos, Stills Uploaded
Thousands of photographs taken by Chaim Baruch Halberstam during 'Sunday Dollars' with the Rebbe were acquired by JEM and uploaded to the web for personal purchase.

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Uncovering an Untold Story
Rosa Melamed, whose family hosted the Rebbe Rayatz during his exile in Kostroma, was found by JEM in Israel at the age of 95.

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Monday, August 23, 2010
The Rebbe's Cousin Speaks
The Rebbe's distant cousin, Mr. Mordechai Schneerson, who passed away last week in Ukraine, was interviewed by JEM.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Tape Collection Donated to JEM
Recordings of dozens of the Rebbe's Farbrengens from 1951 through 1977, made by Rabbi Yossi Goldstein and son Aaron, were donated to JEM's Preservation Project.

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
65 Years Later, 770’s First Class Reunites
Reb Mottel Fisher was one of the handful of American boys that joined Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson for his Shabbos afternoon Tanya Shiur in Brownsville during the 1930s. In August of 1939, only weeks before World War II broke out, Reb Mottel with a few of his friends – including Rabbis Avrohom Hecht and Mottel Altein, set out in the historic trip to join the Central Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Otwock, Poland, to be with the Frierdiker Rebbe.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Historic Farbrengen now on Video
On the 20th of Menachem-Av, 1971, the Rebbe addressed diverse themes during a historic Farbrengen that one Shliach called “The greatest single experience of my life.”

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
A Gimmel Tamuz Hachlata
Last week, a camera crew went on the road to to three Living Torah viewings to discover what people think about the My Encounter with the Rebbe project.

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Monday, June 14, 2010
New Photos of the Rebbe
In conjunction with completing the Early Years series, JEM is releasing three pictures that were used in the films in honor of Gimmel Tamuz.

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Friday, June 11, 2010
Inspiring the Next Generation
It has been sixteen years since Gimmel Tammuz. We each seek to be inspired by learning the stories of our Rebbe. And those who don’t have stories of their own, must rely on the older generation.

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Wednesday, June 09, 2010
366 'Encounters' Interviewed
To date, 366 people of diverse backgrounds have been interviewed about their encounters with the Rebbe.

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Sunday, June 06, 2010
New Early Years DVD Released
In honor of Gimmel Tammuz, JEM has just released a new DVD in The Early Years series with eighteen recently-recorded interviews.

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Thursday, June 03, 2010
R' Yoel Interviewed by JEM
The Rebbe's chozer Rabbi Yoel Kahan and Rabbi Yehuda
Krinsky, the Rebbe's secretary, sat down for a 3-hour
videotaped session for JEM's My Encounter.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Aiming for 1,000 Encounters
JEM is aiming to film 1000 interviews attempting to capture undocumented accounts of the Rebbe's life and his impact.

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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Flamingo Chabad hosts film fest
Chabad of Flamingo in Toronto hosted a film festival with a surprise appearance by Moshe Levy, an Israeli War Hero who received Israel's highest military honor.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Burbank Firm Restores Video
DC Video of Burbank, California, restored two never-seen Farbrengens of the Rebbe for Vaad Hatmimim and JEM.

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Monday, January 25, 2010
First Episode of Living Torah Online Features Rebbe’s First Maamar
In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of Yud Shevat, JEM has announced a new online version of Living Torah. To kick it off, they are featuring the Rebbe’s first Chassidic Discourse – delivered on Yud Shevat, 5711.

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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Schools to Watch 'My Land'
Students in more than 40 Chabad schools worldwide will be viewing a segment from the recently released "My Land."

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Saturday, January 09, 2010
Filmmakers Address New York Radio Audience
A pair of Chabad-Lubavitch filmmakers appeared on Zev Brenner’s New York talk radio program Tuesday night to discuss “Faithful and Fortified,” a new release from Jewish Educational Media that examines interactions between Israeli security officials and the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.

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Sunday, October 18, 2009
New Photos of the Rebbe Found - IDF Veterans
After 30 years, photos of an exceptional meeting between the Rebbe and injured IDF veterans have recently been discovered. During the 1976 visit, the Rebbe addressed the veterans in Hebrew and greeted each one individually, shaking their hands and conversing with them.

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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Businessman’s Largesse Helps Fund Historic Video Preservation
Ben Federman has yet to find the recording, buried amidst miles and miles of videotape, of his five-year-old self meeting the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson,
of righteous memory.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Film Documents Rebbe’s Dedication to Israel’s Security
As Israel faces a ratcheting up of pressure in the international arena, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based archive and video production house has released a new DVD called Faithful and Fortified that examines a series of conversations throughout the years between policymakers in Jerusalem and the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
New Video Examines Jewish Leader’s Care and Concern for Every Jew
In honor of the 15th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, Jewish Educational Media has released a new collection of interviews featuring people personally touched by the Rebbe's concern for every Jew.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Restored Footage Shows Historic Solar Blessing
"Blessing of the Sun," the newest release from Jewish Educational Media, presents the historic 1981 gathering outside Lubavitch World Headquarters, where thousands of men, women and children blessed G‑d for creating the sun.

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