Lamplighters

Send us Fan Mail 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 the...

Send us Fan Mail Rabbi Refoel & Chani Silver: Sparkling Beaches, Tiki Torch Menorahs & Jewish Outreach in Curaçao To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com In 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Goodman To 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,...

Send us Fan Mail Rabbi Zalman & Nechama Tiechtel: Growing Jewish Souls In The American Heartland To 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 ha...

Send us Fan Mail 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 th...

Send us Fan Mail The Music And Spirituality Of Songwriter Peter Himmelman PH: 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 w...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Teicht...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 d...

Send us Fan Mail 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 mo...

Send us Fan Mail Rabbi Dovid & Elisa Gurevich: World's First Chabad on Campus Still Going Strong I 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!...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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&apos...

Send us Fan Mail 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-Hashem Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Ga...

Send us Fan Mail Rabbi Yisrael & Vivi Deren: Transforming Unfathomable Loss Into Jewish Light And Warmth Featuring: Former Senator Joe Lieberman How ‘The Concert’ Helped Establish The Derens’ Jewish Outreach In The Northeast We'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...

Send us Fan Mail 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,...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Rebbetz...

Send us Fan Mail "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...

Send us Fan Mail Miriam Moskovitz & Esther Wilhelm: Two Dramatic Journeys Out Of Ukrainian War Zones Despite 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 Waleik Pro...

Send us Fan Mail 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 DeSimone Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/ Lubavitch.com Available on all major p...

Send us Fan Mail 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 watc...

Send us Fan Mail Mrs. Chana Sharfstein: The Story of The Trailblazing Shliach To Russia, Latvia, Sweden and Boston Zuber’s Life Cut Tragically Short, Ending Decades Of Shlichus Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International Magazine To read the transcript of the episode: www. Lubavitch.com/episode18transcript Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Rabbi Zalman Grossbaum & Barbara Warter: LifeTown, A Village For The Special Needs Community Building Life Town In ‘The Epicenter Of The Special Needs World’ Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International Magazine To read the transcript of the episode: www. Lubavitch.com/episode17transcript Support the show