Lamplighters
Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier. Narrated By: Gary Waleik Produced by: Shneur Brook & Gary Waleik A project of Machne Israel
Episodes
48 episodes since 2021
Black, Jewish and Proud: How Rabbi Yossi Kulek Promotes Inclusion
Black, 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-sta...
September 15, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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26:50
Putting “Hospitality” in “Hospital”: Rabbis Dovid, Shloime & Rebbetzin Chanie, Chana Greene
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 ...
August 18, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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30:10
The Myrtle Beach Makeover: Rabbi Doron & Leah Aizenman
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 pod...
July 14, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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26:25
Creating Jewish Ambassadors in the KKK’s Backyard: Rabbi Levi & Chaish Mentz
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-...
June 05, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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28:15
The Black Fedora in the Cowboy State: Rabbi Zalman & Raizy Mendelsohn
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 re...
May 06, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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25:15
A Sub-Saharan Brit Milah: Rabbi Moshe & Yocheved Raskin
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 po...
March 26, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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22:40
Fighting Fires and Pedaling Wine Bicycles: The Portland Jewish Oasis - Rabbi Chayim & Simi Mishulovin
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...
February 19, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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24:48
Holy High: How Milwaukee Became Home to a Revolutionary Jewish Prep School - Rabbi Yossi & Ilana Bassman
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 wh...
January 16, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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24:43
Sparkling Beaches, Tiki Torch Menorahs & Jewish Outreach in Curaçao: Rabbi Refoel & Chani Silver
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, Rabb...
November 29, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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28:06
“The Meshugenas”: Five Aussies' Journeys To Jewish Observance
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...
June 27, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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23:31
Rabbi Zalman & Nechama Tiechtel: Growing Jewish Souls In The American Heartland
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...
May 29, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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25:56
Part 2: Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don
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...
May 01, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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28:20
Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don (Part 1)
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...
March 27, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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22:33
The Music And Spirituality Of Songwriter Peter Himmelman
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,...
March 05, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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24:26
A Searching Teenager Becomes a Rabbi in his Hometown: Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel Wagner
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. An...
February 01, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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19:24
Rabbi Mendy & Mazal Sternbach: Lagos, Nigeria - A Small Jewish Community in an African City of 20 Million
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 ...
January 09, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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20:52
Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz: Connecting Two Generations Of Rabbis In A Boston NICU
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 o...
November 28, 2022
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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20:39
Merging Torah And Science: Lessons From The Life Of Dr. Binyomin Abrams
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...
October 30, 2022
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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25:03
Rabbi Dovid & Elisa Gurevich: World's First Chabad on Campus Still Going Strong
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."...
September 21, 2022
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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22:07
Rabbi Michoel & Zisel Goldman: Everything Grows on Kauai … Why Not Yiddishkeit?
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."&nb...
August 23, 2022
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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21:09
From Kabul To Fremont: An Afghan Family Moves Into A Chabad House - Rabbi Moshe & Chaya Fuss
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 ho...
August 04, 2022
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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28:22
From 'Grateful Dead' fans to Chabad emissaries: Rabbi Dov Yona & Sarah Korn
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 t...
July 12, 2022
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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26:03
From Revolutionary Iran To Outreach In California: Rabbi Danny Yiftach-Hashem
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 wh...
June 22, 2022
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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29:10
Transforming Unfathomable Loss Into Jewish Light And Warmth: Rabbi Yisrael & Vivi Deren
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 Northeast...
June 08, 2022
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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28:31
Bagels, Bears & Baalei Teshuva in Berkeley: Rabbi Yehuda & Miriam Ferris
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...
May 17, 2022
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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20:16