Jewish Educational Media (JEM) is a unique not-for-profit audio-visual archive, production facility, and resource center based in Brooklyn, New York. Established in 1980, our mission is to collect, preserve, and make accessible moving image materials which documents the Jewish experience from a Chabad-Lubavitch perspective.

The Living Archive contains thousands of hours of film and video materials, audio recordings,

photographs, and other media reflecting day-to-day life among Lubavitcher Chasidim over the course of 8 decades, from the 1920s through the present.

The cornerstone of our collection is the moving image materials which document the life and work of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Overall, the collections document the growth and development of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, and are a treasure trove with strong humanities content in the areas of history, religion, storytelling, music, and >dance.

As an archive, JEM collects materials of all media types including video, audio and photographs – onany number of formats: Film, magnetic tape, and digital media. Over the decades, there have been dozens of different formats introduced – some obscure, others more common and widely in use, at least for a period of time. But regardless of format, brand, JEM collects materials based on their content and scope.Once preserved, these invaluable moving images can be utilized for research and study – now and for future generations – by users around the world. JEM makes these materials accessible on a variety of formats, including VHS, Mini-DV, DVD, CD and numerous professionallevel formats, such as BetaSP and DVCAM.

To learn more about our archive activities, please contact our Executive Director, Elkanah Shmotkin, es@jemedia.org

For research requests, please contact Mendel@jemedia.org

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Here is a sampling of topics covered in The Living Archive:

Contemporary American

Issues

The US Constitution

Church and State

Education

Morality

US Isolationism

Energy – Conservation and

Alternative Sources

Global and Jewish Issues

Peace and Conflict

Soviet Jewry

Israel

Security

Who is a Jew?

Feminine Rights

Jewish Unity

Life Cycle Events

Birth

Bris

Children/Childhood

Marriage

Bar/Bas Mitzvah

Milestones Birthdays (70 years,

80 years…)

Aging

Death and Mourning

Judaic Figures

Biblical Figures (Patriarchs,

Matriarchs)

Talmudic Figures (Rabbi

Shimon, Rabbi Akiva, etc)

Later Scholars (Maimonides,

Rashi)

Chassidic Leaders (The Baal

Shem Tov, Rabbi Shneur

Zalman of Liadi)

Jewish Concepts

Charity

Torah Study

Tefillin

Jewish Outreach

Rituals

Life after death

Themes

Never be Satisfied

The Smallest Deed–The

Greatest Impact

Jewish Leadership