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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 a text The Rabbi Everyone Knows, From the Town Few Have Heard of: Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie 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! “The day he was diagnosed, I was also supposed to sign the contract for building my building. And I was in a moral dilemma what I should do.” - Rabbi Dov...
Send a text Facing Cancer Together: A Rabbi and His Community - Rabbi Yossi & Malki Rodal 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! “About four months ago, I went to the dentist... There was an ulcer on my tongue. They asked how long it had been there and told me to get it checked out.....
Send 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, b...
Send 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 again."...
Send 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 I ...
Send 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, I...
Send 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 wha...
Send 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 em...
Send 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 spiritua...
Send 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 kidne...
Send 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! "They...
Send 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 stay...
Send 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 revie...
Send 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 ye...
Send 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?’” - Rab...
Send 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 help ...
Send 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 My...
Send 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 “You ...
Send 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 beautif...
Send 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 we ...
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