Lamplighters

Send us a textFinding the Frozen Chosen: Rabbi Mendy & Chaya GreenbergTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid 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 spiritual gas station for him. And he would sit and talk to me. He would ask me to keep the Tefillin on him for an hour, two hours." - Rabbi Mendy Greenberg"The first thing that she told me when we sat down to study was, “My mom's Jewish, but I'm not. I'm Christian.” - Rebbetzin Chaya Greenberg“The level of happiness that those two young rabbis brought to my favorite brother, I'll never forget them. I will never forget what they did for that boy.” - Julia O'Malley-KeyesProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us a textThe Rabbi Who Would Give Anything to a Fellow Jew — Even a Kidney: Rabbi Aizik Baumgarten & Terri DavginTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid 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 kidney to her to save her life?"" - Rabbi Aizik Baumgarten“I was mind blown when I found out that it was somebody I knew, that it was somebody I had contact with all the time, who I already cared about and respected." - Terri DavginProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us a textConnecting in Copenhagen: Rabbi Yitzi & Rochel LoewenthalThis 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.comDid 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 were simply not really familiar with what Chabad was. And they had a crisis meeting. “What are we going to do about this crisis that Chabad has moved to town, and they want to snatch all our young people and turn them into very religious Jews?” It was somewhat humorous, although a little bit difficult. " - Rabbi Yitzi Loewenthal“Intermarriage was, like, 98 point something. You know, the statistics were that the community is over within 10 years. The numbers were not looking so good.  " - Rebbetzin Rochel LoewenthalProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us a textEl Rabino of Cabo: Rabbi Benny & Sonia HershcovichTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid 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, like, probably every two hours. But it was one particular Shabbos where I was so done. I was done. I had two little kids, and I was done. " - Rebbetzin Sonia HershcovichProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us a textThe Outpost In Oklahoma: Rabbi Yehuda & Etel WegExciting 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 review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!"I don't know what Tulsa is going to look like in 10 or 20 years from now, but I will be here and I will serve the needs of the community as they change." - Rabbi Yehuda Weg“Mashiach isn't here. It's not the end of the story. We have work to do. Baruch Hashem, we're given a lot of opportunities." - Rebbetzin Etel WegProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us a textFrom Karlin to Wellesley: Rabbi Moshe BleichTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid 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 years ago, they said, 'Is there a minyan of Shomer Shabbos in Lakewood, that would have been new also. Someone's got to make this happen." - Rabbi Moshe Bleich“And then, almost as an afterthought, as we're walking by, the Rebbe gives, like, a half turn in my direction with my father and me. And he says, "Aun a Chossid by undzer oych." Which, literal translation, "And a Chassid by us as well."Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us a textBlack, Jewish and Proud: How Rabbi Yossi Kulek Promotes Inclusion To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid 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?'” - Rabbi Yossi Kulek“I instilled in my children that if there's anyone that's ever had an issue with them, it's because they have a problem. You're not the problem.” - Rebbetzin Dalia KulekProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us a Text Message.Putting “Hospitality” in “Hospital”: Rabbis Dovid, Shloime & Rebbetzin Chana GreeneTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid 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 those around me heal.” - Rabbi Shloime Greene“It's intertwined. That's the beauty. The local and visiting community is one. It's one community. It's not, "Oh, okay. This is the part of our Shlichus that's hospital-centered. And then when I go to my preschool and make a curriculum that's community centered." It's really all intertwined." - Rebbetzin Chana Greene"I was in a dark place. It was very dark, and it got darker in time. But every time I saw him, he made me feel a lot better." - Oz EliezerProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the Show.

Send us a Text Message.The Myrtle Beach Makeover: Rabbi Doron & Leah AizenmanTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid 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 Myrtle Beach, and may I pursue it? And the Rebbe said, "V'sanyano b'zeh." Which means, "Go ahead and look into that direction." - Rabbi Doron Aizenman“I got a job in the financial district in Manhattan, but I was not satisfied. I still wanted very much to be part of the Rebbe's work." - Rebbetzin Leah Aizenman"Rabbi Doron and Morah Leah, they came here when they were very young. And to see what they build … everything is changing and growing... It's, like, who's gonna think that this is gonna be, like, this good." - Ana MoscheProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the Show.

Send us a Text Message.Creating Jewish Ambassadors in the KKK's Backyard: Rabbi Levi & Chaish MentzTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid 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 need to understand, this is Forsyth County eight years ago. It was like putting a Jewish colony on Mars. ‘We're going to have a synagogue in Forsyth County?'” - Jeremy Lefkovits"Our house was a two-and-a-half mile walk to shul. So that was one of the biggest marketing gigs, was my husband walking to shul every week, doing 5 miles of walking on a Shabbos. A lot of people were like, "Oh, we saw you walking!” And that was how they learned that there was something going on over here." - Rebbetzin Chaish MentzProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast

The Black Fedora in the Cowboy State: Rabbi Zalman & Raizy MendelsohnTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid 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 beautiful, but can we perhaps consider other opportunities?'" - Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn"I felt suffocated and I said, “When I look to my right, there's a mountain, and I look to my left, there's a mountain. And I look in front, there's a mountain. I look behind, there's a mountain." - Rebbetzin Raizy MendelsohnProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast

A Sub-Saharan Brit Milah: Rabbi Moshe & Yocheved RaskinTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid 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 need to make a bris." - Rabbi Moshe Raskin"And we're schmoozing, and I'm telling him, "I'm a shochet. If you need anything, I'm happy to do some slaughtering for you while I'm here. And I brought with me my Shechita knife." And I mentioned in passing that I'm a mohel." - Dr. Ari Greenspan Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast

Fighting Fires and Pedaling Wine Bicycles: the Portland Jewish Oasis - Rabbi Chayim & Simi MishulovinTo 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 Jewishness close to the chest, or I've outright hid it. And after having visited the burnt shul, I really felt like this is time for me to step into my Jewishness and to let it out in big, beautiful ways." - Mr. David Howitt"Sometimes it takes a broken spirit. A shattered heart could be the best vessel. But, wherever we are, Hashem is with us, helping us. The Oasis story, we could see the blessings in it." - Rebbetzin Simi MishulovinProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid 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!

Holy High: How Milwaukee Became Home to a Revolutionary Jewish Prep School - Rabbi Yossi & Ilana BassmanTo 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, Bader Hillel High '19 "If we're stepping up and taking ownership of the future of the Yiddishkeit, of the Jewish people, that begins and ends in authentic Jewish education. - Rabbi Yossi Bassman"I do remember, vividly, looking at my husband and telling him, "No, I seriously, I cannot plan a program. I wouldn't even be able to make a lesson plan. I can't even do that." And he looked me straight in the eye and he said, "Yes, you could." - Rebbetzin Ilana BassmanProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid 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!

Rabbi Refoel & Chani Silver: Sparkling Beaches, Tiki Torch Menorahs & Jewish Outreach in CuraçaoTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comIn June of 2017, Rabbi Refoel and Chani Silver boarded a plane for Curaçao on a fact-finding mission. "We had a meeting one evening at the Shul, and we called upon local members to come. And they had set up a lot, a lot, a lot of chairs, apparently expecting 40 to 50 people. A lot less people showed up. And there was a fellow that got up there,  and he says, "Well, look around the room. There are so many empty chairs. Why would you come here?" I said, "You know, that's a great question. But my answer is if I would come here tonight and this room was full, then you don't need me here!” ” - Rabbi Refoel Silver"Beautiful beaches. There's an old town here with colored houses. There's the old synagogue, Shaarei Tzedek, which is a beautiful synagogue. Historical island, with a lot of culture. It's very international." - Rebbetzin Chani Silver "as I was walking down the stairs he looked up to me, he said, “Michael Metsch?" I said to him, "Rabbi Silver?" And he said to me, "Yes." And we went for a coffee. My wife also came. And the three of us sat for about an hour and a half, talking about all the issues in Curaçao." - Michael MetschProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid 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!

From Beaches And Basketball To Torah And Mitzvahs: The Story of Perth's “Meshugenahs”Featuring: Rabbi Dovid Birk, Michoel Ogince, Gilad Lurie, Yitz Feigenbaum & Aaron Lazer GoodmanTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com "I couldn't understand. I was like, "One second; I saw a wetsuit in your bathroom." He says, "Yeah, I was out surfing this morning, Tel Aviv." I couldn't believe it. So I challenged him. I was like, "One second, how is it possible?" - Rabbi Dovid Birk"We skateboarded, we surfed, we went to the beach. We body surfed in the beach if we didn't have a surfboard." - Aaron Lazer GoodmanProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid 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!

Rabbi Zalman & Nechama Tiechtel: Growing Jewish Souls In The American HeartlandTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com"My phone was blowing up from the students. "You gotta come to campus. You gotta come to campus. And no one's telling me why. And I got worried.” - Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel"When someone enters our Chabad house, and not only the physical space of it, but in our relationship with the student, there is zero judgment and 100% acceptance... It's real, it's genuine. It's something that we learned from the Rebbe; to look at every Jew for who they are in their essence. And the trash in their life? We don't see, and we don't care." - Rebbetzin Nechama Tiechtel "At first, Zalman's beard turned like plaid, then polka-dotted after me telling him the nasty details of the things that I was going through... And then - I'll never forget it - he said to me, "I'm jealous of you." And I was like, "What?." - Charles Goldberg Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid 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!

Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don"We drove cross country, sold my car on the East Coast, and we boarded a flight, a one way ticket, from JFK to Moscow and onto Rostov... We gave up the surfing boards … and we switched them for ice skates” - Rabbi Chaim Danzinger"I didn't speak the language, so there was a lot of hand motions and just hugging and trying to break my teeth over Russian, and them breaking their teeth over English." - Rebbetzin Kaila Danzinger Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid 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!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don"Once I had finished with Moscow, I decided, ‘Okay, I'm done with this.' " - Rebbetzin Kaila Danzinger"We have to go where we could make an impact, not necessarily to the place that is most convenient or most beautiful."“We gave up the surfing boards … and we switched them for ice skates” - Rabbi Chaim DanzingerProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid 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!This Lamplighters episode is dedicated in honor of Moshe Braun by the Braun children, who send their father all of their love and blessings on his birthday. We here at Lamplighters say “Amen” to that. Thank you very much to the Braun family for listening, and for supporting us in our mission to bring you inspiring stories of Chabad emissaries all over the world. To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

The Music And Spirituality Of Songwriter Peter HimmelmanPH: He {Rabbi Simon Jacobson} said, "A tzadik, he could do anything." You know, I said, "Well, can he fly?" RSJ: So I said, "I never saw him fly, to be honest.” PH: Which I liked. Maybe somebody could fly, he just hadn't seen it!RSJ: “But you have to remember that, for him, walking on earth was just as miraculous as flying."PH: And Simon looks at me, and he goes, "Understand one thing: to a tzadik, whether they're flying 30, 40, 50 feet above the ground or walking on the surface of it, it's all the same miracle."Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid 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!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Ep. 34 - A searching teenager becomes a rabbi in his hometown: Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel Wagner"AOL Messenger had something amazing. When you put in the search certain words, it was scanning all the profiles of all the members of AOL. And when you put in the word “Chabad,” or you put in the word “rabbi,” you get a lot of rabbis... And that's the way how I found Rabbi Teichtal in Berlin." - Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel WagnerProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid 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!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Rabbi Mendy & Mazal Sternbach: Lagos, Nigeria - A small Jewish community in an African city of 20 million"We had a meeting, and then we decided, "Okay, let's do that. Let's go for a year to Nigeria." My parents were not so happy about that … then. I mean, let's say you just Google "Nigeria." I'm guessing that the first few things that you will find are not something that parents want their daughter to go there. It doesn't sound so amazing. But then they had a talk with the shluchim, and they realized that we don't have terrorists walking around, and we're pretty safe. And they were more relaxed." -- Rebbetzin Mazal Sternbach"They see me with a yarmulke. They walk over to me and they say, "You're a Jew, you're from the Bible, you're Moses." They tell us "You're the chosen people." " -- Rabbi Mendy SternbachProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz: Connecting Two Generations Of Rabbis In A Boston NICU"Somebody please get me a Chabad rabbi. The surgery is going to take place in 2 hours. I just need someone to come and pray.” - Jacer Collins"I ran over, dropped everything, and went to Children's Hospital, the 7th floor... She pulled me towards the crib, tiny little crib. You know, what do you say?... The only thing that came out of my mouth was the following; "G-d can do anything. Let's pray for a miracle." - Rabbi Mayshe SchwartzProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Merging Torah And Science: Lessons From The Life Of Dr. Binyomin Abrams"I'm riding my moped down Commonwealth Avenue, and one of the students snaps a photo of me with my beard flying in the wind, tzitzis flying everywhere... They post it on Facebook and write, "So excited to be coming to Boston University. Where else are you going to see an Amish person riding a moped?" Then the comments start coming in. The first comment is, "Hey, I don't think the Amish are allowed to ride mopeds." And the second one was, "Hey, stop telling the Amish what they are and aren't allowed to do." And then the last comment was, "I don't think he's Amish. I think that's a Chassidic Jewish person … and I think he's our chemistry professor!"  - Dr. Binyomin AbramsNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Rabbi Dovid & Elisa Gurevich: World's First Chabad on Campus Still Going StrongI was aware of being Jewish, but not much else.  I don't think I knew what Rosh Hashanah was, growing up... And did not have even a Bar Mitzvah." - Rabbi Dovid Gurevich"And I saw the guy with the big beard and the hat. And I was like, "Oh, yeah, I got to talk to that guy!" - Jonathan WilsonNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Rabbi Michoel & Zisel Goldman: Everything Grows on Kauai … Why Not Yiddishkeit? "Kauai is a magnet for the most amazing souls. And I have stories that could fill a book of interesting characters that we've met over the years." "My wife is a city girl. To live on Kauai was very hard for her, and she was honest about it. It was very remote, very lonely. And you're 5,000 miles away from your family. So it was very hard for her."  - Rabbi Michoel GoldmanNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

From Kabul To Fremont: An Afghan Family Moves Into A Chabad House - Rabbi Moshe & Chaya Fuss"When Malek told his story and the details of it, how his wife was beaten and how he had no hope, hearing a first hand account, it was horrendous.. We were listening to the story, and we were all just in tears... I guess you hear these stories in the news, and you read them, and they're real and you know they're real. But, when you actually hear it from a real person and you're sitting at a table, it really breaks your heart." - Rebbetzin Chaya FussNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

From 'Grateful Dead' fans to Chabad emissaries: Rabbi Dov Yona & Sarah Korn "And I walk in, and I look like said “circus.” And it was a wild farbrengen. And, at four in the morning, we're singing "Ay nay, nay nay..." dancing on the tables. I couldn't help but feel these songs were inside me. .." - Rabbi Dov Yona Korn"And that's when I really had my awakening. Because I think that sometimes your neshama just comes so full force when you're in such an alien environment, that it was like, "Whoa! Get yourself to Crown Heights, girl. What are you doing here?'" - Rebbetzin Sarah KornNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

From Revolutionary Iran To Outreach In California: Rabbi Danny Yiftach-Hashem“Our ‘fun' going back from school to home was to find empty shells, casings of bullets on the streets.... quite quickly, I figured out no matter what happens here, which side is going to be the winner, the chaos seems to be permanent.” - Rabbi Danny Yiftach-HashemNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Rabbi Yisrael & Vivi Deren: Transforming Unfathomable Loss Into Jewish Light And WarmthFeaturing: Former Senator Joe LiebermanHow ‘The Concert' Helped Establish The Derens' Jewish Outreach In The NortheastWe're opening a Chabad house. In those days, Jews - frum Jews - didn't know what the word "Chabad house" meant.‘We pulled out all stops and no expense spared. This is going to be the greatest [concert] ever' - Rabbi Yisroel DerenNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Bagels, Bears & Baalei Teshuva in Berkeley: Rabbi Yehuda & Miriam Ferris“We had no manual. We had great role models,  but basically we didn't know what to do. The Rebbe told us, "You should spread the joy and inspiration of Yiddishkeit." But he didn't tell us how. So we were basically experimenting with humor, with music, with food, different programs, whatever sticks, you throw it against the wall.” "When we got here to Berkeley, there were no Baalei Teshuva on campus. Today, our campus shluchim are baalei teshuva that we helped bring to Yiddishkeit. And I do anticipate a tsunami of more Baalei Teshuva."Narrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

In Episode 23 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier,  we present a quartet of the series' most popular stories to mark the one-year anniversary of its first episode. They include the fight of a Chabad couple to save their baby, the work of an emissary to help people recovering from drug addiction in South Africa, a dual liver donor, and two Rebbetzins from Ukraine who fled but are still tending to their communities as they disperse around the globe. Narrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

"There are Jews in Montana? What are you doing? And how is this going to be sustainable?" Rabbi Chaim & Chavie Bruk,  Chabad Representatives to the state of Montana.In 2008, less than two years after they had put down roots in Montana, they were diagnosed with permanent infertility. They were devastated. "You get married, you're young, like, you're going to build a family. It's going to happen right away. There's going to be no obstacles to that. And that is not at all how it happened. And you're opened up into this whole new world of "Okay, well, now what?" Like, the rugs pulled out from under you.  So we really had to accept and work through that "Okay. It wasn't meant to be that way."Narrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

Miriam Moskovitz & Esther Wilhelm: Two Dramatic Journeys Out Of Ukrainian War ZonesDespite the War, Ukraine's Chabad Emissaries Are As Dedicated As Ever‘Last year when we made the Hamentashen together with you, we had music in the background. Now I have artillery fire in the background' - Member of the Kharkiv Jewish Community to Miriam Moskovitz Narrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

Rabbi Mendel & Chanie Fogelman: "Pastrami Shlichus" In Central Massachusetts How A Kosher Take Out Is Transforming A Massachusetts community ‘It's just top-tier food. Kosher or not, it's just top-tier' - Anthony DeSimoneNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

Rabbi Chaim & Aidel Zaklos: Bringing Together The Patchwork Community Of Solano County"For me, the most exciting part was feeling like you can give them something that they never had before, and really filling a thirst that they had. And watching them just drink it up." - Rabbi Chaim Zaklos"Before the rabbi came into our life, pretty much making the kids watch reruns of “The Nanny” was about the most Jewish learning that they got... if the rabbi hadn't come into our life, I don't know where the family would have been at this point." - Glen GoldsteinNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

Mrs. Chana Sharfstein: The Story of The Trailblazing Shliach To Russia, Latvia, Sweden and BostonZuber's Life Cut Tragically Short, Ending Decades Of ShlichusNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International MagazineTo read the transcript of the episode: www.Lubavitch.com/episode18transcript

Rabbi Zalman Grossbaum & Barbara Warter: LifeTown, A Village For The Special Needs CommunityBuilding Life Town In ‘The Epicenter Of The Special Needs World'Naarated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International MagazineTo read the transcript of the episode: www.Lubavitch.com/episode17transcript

Rabbi Motti & Rochel Flikshtein: From Rapper To RabbiHow A Hug Helped The Rapping Rabbi Reject His Rebellious Past Naarated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International MagazineTo read the transcript of the episode: www.Lubavitch.com/episode16transcript

How A Cambodian Princess Embraced Torah Judaism

Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff: Changing Lives Through Sign Language - Part 2

Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff: Changing Lives Through Sign Language“There was no reason for me to stay as a member of the Jewish community if I couldn't be actively a part of it.” - Steve Weiner“​​There was a deep need for access to education about the Jewish religion and Jewish customs and traditions in sign language … It was my calling.” -Rabbi Yehoshua SoudakoffTranscript Available at: Lubavitch.com/podcasttranscript

Lamplighters Reporter/Producer Tells His Personal Story Of Friendship With Chabad Emissaries 

Rabbi Justice Marcus Solomon: The First Rabbi Appointed To Western Australia's Highest CourtFrom The Rebbe's Court To The Supreme Court

David Babinet: Finding Beautiful Melodies In Torah-Observant Life Babinet Gave Up Promising Opera Career 

Abrams Continues The Shlichus Of Ailing Rabbi Who Mentored Him 

Rabbi Binyamin Murray: His Search For Jewish Identity 

Rabbi Ephraim Simon: Saving A Life - Twice - With The Help Of ‘The Kidney Matchmaker'

Rabbi Noginski Recovering After Brutal Assault: Boston Community Responds With Charity And Acts of Kindness ‘It's A Big Miracle That I'm Alive. The Wounds Will Heal, And The Mitzvahs Will Stay.' - Rabbi Shlomo Noginski

The ‘Addicts' Rabbi Says He's ‘Happy Just To Do The Mitzvah' 

Greenberg Prevented Cremation, Secured A Jewish Burial