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Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier.
Narrated By: Gary Waleik
Produced by: Shneur Brook & Gary Waleik
A project of Machne Israel
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Send us a text A California Rabbi’s Mission Behind Prison Walls: Rabbi Yochanan Friedman To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! “What we found here was that it's an incredibly challenging shlichus environment. There's a lot of spiritual complacency here. Not that people aren't spiritual...
Send us a text Borscht Belt Meets Bible Belt: Rabbi Yosef & Bina Goldwasser To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! “I got back to New York, I called Rabbi Posner. I was all excited. I said, "Rabbi Posner, we're ready to move." And he said, "Not so fast. I want you to go check it out agai...
Send us a text The Tennis Star and the Country Girl Changing Jewish Life in Milwaukee: Rabbi Lev & Talia Voskoboynik To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! “They wanted me to find a nice Jewish wife. And that was something which was definitely not on my priority list. And...
Send us a text The Over-the-road Rabbi: Every Mile, Every Soul - Rabbi Chaim & Chayala Markovits To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! “Maybe it's 15 or 20 cities on a monthly rotation. So every Monday and Wednesday, I'm for sure on the road driving three, four, five hours away. Tuesday...
Send us a text Two Converts, One Mission: Reviving Jewish Life in Stellenbosch: Rabbi Chananyah & Eliana Duthie To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! “For the first 19 years of my life, I didn't know a Jew and didn't know what a Jew was.” - Rabbi Chananyah Duthie "And then I, for ...
Send us a text Chabad's Return To Mumbai: Rabbi Israel & Chaya Kozlovsky To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! “I can't bear it. I will go anywhere in the world but India.” But, how does the expression go? “Never say never.” - Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky "It was a mess. And it was very...
Send us a text Finding the Frozen Chosen: Rabbi Mendy & Chaya Greenberg To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! "He told me... he never felt so happy. He said, "At my funeral, tell everybody it's never too late to be a proud Jew."... he'd say how he feels that the Tefillin is like a spiri...
Send us a text The Rabbi Who Would Give Anything to a Fellow Jew — Even a Kidney: Rabbi Aizik Baumgarten & Terri Davgin To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! ""Hi, this is the Presbyterian Hospital. Your swab came up as a match for Terri Davgin. Are you still interested in donating a ki...
Send us a text Connecting in Copenhagen: Rabbi Yitzi & Rochel Loewenthal This Lamplighters episode is dedicated by Jonathan Pikoff, in honor of Raymond Schinazi for his amazing support of the Los Cabos Jewish Community. Thank you, Jonathan! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! "T...
Send us a text El Rabino of Cabo: Rabbi Benny & Sonia Hershcovich To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! "Two, three months in, we had our foot halfway out the door already. You know, ‘This was a mistake." - Rabbi Benny Hershcovich “In the first years, we questioned whether we should s...
Send us a text The Outpost In Oklahoma: Rabbi Yehuda & Etel Weg Exciting news! This is Episode 50 of Lamplighters. Amazing! But we won’t celebrate that milestone for too long. There are about 5,000 Chabad emissary families in more than 100 countries. So, 50 episodes down, only 4,950 to go! To keep our series going strong, please consider dedicating one! Email us at podcast@lubavitch.com to explore dedication opportunities. Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star re...
Send us a text From Karlin to Wellesley: Rabbi Moshe Bleich To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! Wellesley is a town that didn't have a Shabbos observant Jew since the six days of Creation. Since Adam and Eve, there had never been an observant Jew in Wellesley. But, that being said, if 80...
Send us a text Black, Jewish and Proud: How Rabbi Yossi Kulek Promotes Inclusion To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! “I told my mother, ‘I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed to be Black. I look in the mirror and I ask G-d, “Why me? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to be Black?’” - ...
Send us a text Putting “Hospitality” in “Hospital”: Rabbis Dovid, Shloime & Rebbetzin Chana Greene To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! “Everybody is looking for their miracle to take place when they come to Rochester. People come there to experience healing. And I'm going to he...
Send us a text The Myrtle Beach Makeover: Rabbi Doron & Leah Aizenman To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! "You should go to a place that has no other Shluchim." And the first place that came to mind was Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. So I wrote to the Rebbe that I have that contact in...
Send us a text Creating Jewish Ambassadors in the KKK’s Backyard: Rabbi Levi & Chaish Mentz To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! "I asked, ‘Hey, what's Jewish life like up here?’ And she laughed. She's like, ‘There's nothing. I am the only Jew that lives here.’" - Rabbi Levi Mentz “Y...
Send us a text The Black Fedora in the Cowboy State: Rabbi Zalman & Raizy Mendelsohn To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! "I knew that Jackson Hole, being a tiny little town, would be somewhat overwhelming for Raizy to consider moving here full time...And she said, 'This place is beau...
Send us a text A Sub-Saharan Brit Milah: Rabbi Moshe & Yocheved Raskin To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! "What’s the chance … that two people will come in the time of quarantine to Uganda, and one of them is a mohel? It's a major hasgacha pratit. I have a lady, she has a baby. And ...
Send us a text Fighting Fires and Pedaling Wine Bicycles: the Portland Jewish Oasis - Rabbi Chayim & Simi Mishulovin To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com "It was a Friday night. We were just going to sleep, and all of a sudden I hear banging on the front door of my house. So we go to open the door, and we're told that the Chabad house is on fire." - Rabbi Chayim Mishulovin "It's hard for me to say this, but my whole life, I've either kept my Jewis...
Send us a text Holy High: How Milwaukee Became Home to a Revolutionary Jewish Prep School - Rabbi Yossi & Ilana Bassman To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com "There was one instance where a bunch of kids over there brought this bag of chips, they gave it to me. And I was like, "You know, what could be wrong with chips?" And ate it. And then, afterwards, they were just mocking me. "Oh, that was pork rinds. The Jew ate pork rinds." - Gedaliah Liberman...
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