Send us 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 whatever re...
Jul 07, 2025•29 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Send us 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 emotional....
Jun 08, 2025•29 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Send us 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 spiritual ...
May 04, 2025•29 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Send us 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 kidney ...
Mar 16, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Send us 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 were si...
Feb 16, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Send us 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, li...
Jan 13, 2025•29 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Send us 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 review ...
Dec 09, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Send us 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 years...
Nov 03, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Send us 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?’” - Rabbi Yossi...
Sep 16, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Send us 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 those aro...
Aug 18, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Send us 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 Myrt...
Jul 14, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Send us 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 ne...
Jun 05, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Send us 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 beautiful,...
May 06, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Send us 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 nee...
Mar 27, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Send us a text Fighting Fires and Pedaling Wine Bicycles: the Portland Jewish Oasis - Rabbi Chayim & Simi Mishulovin To 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...
Feb 20, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Send us a text 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 then, afterwards, they were just mocking me. "Oh, that was pork rinds. The Jew ate pork rinds." - Gedaliah Liberman, Bad...
Jan 17, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Send us a text 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 had set up a lot, a lot, a lot of chairs, apparently expecting 40 to 50 people. A lot less people showed up....
Nov 30, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Send us a text 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, 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 p...
Jun 28, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Send us a text 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 house, and not only the physical space of it, but in our relationship with the student, there is zero judgment and 100% ac...
May 30, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Send us a text 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." -...
May 02, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Send us a text 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 Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.co...
Mar 28, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Send us a text 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 3...
Mar 06, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Send us a text 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 Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch Internat...
Feb 02, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Send us a text 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 s...
Jan 10, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Send us a text 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 mira...
Nov 29, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Send us a text 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 mope...
Oct 31, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Send us a text 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!" - Jonathan Wilson Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/ Lubavitch....
Sep 22, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Send us a text 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 Goldman Narrated by: Gary Waleik P...
Aug 24, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Send us a text 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 sittin...
Aug 04, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Send us a text 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 i...
Jul 13, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 27
