Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don (Part 1)

Fighting Fires and Pedaling Wine Bicycles: the Portland Jewish Oasis - Rabbi Chayim & Simi Mishulovin

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"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 Mishulovin

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Holy High: How Milwaukee Became Home to a Revolutionary Jewish Prep School - Rabbi Yossi & Ilana Bassman

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"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 Bassman

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Rabbi Refoel & Chani Silver: Sparkling Beaches, Tiki Torch Menorahs & Jewish Outreach in Curaçao

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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 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 Metsch

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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

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 "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 Goodman

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Rabbi Zalman & Nechama Tiechtel: Growing Jewish Souls In The American Heartland

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"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

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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

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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 Danzinger

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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.

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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 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."

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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 Wagner

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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 Sternbach

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