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Send us a Text Message.Creating Jewish Ambassadors in the KKK’s Backyard: Rabbi Levi & Chaish MentzTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - 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“Y...

Send us a Text Message.The Black Fedora in the Cowboy State: Rabbi Zalman & Raizy MendelsohnTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - 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 be...

Send us a Text Message.A Sub-Saharan Brit Milah: Rabbi Moshe & Yocheved RaskinTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - 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. An...

Send us a Text Message.Fighting Fires and Pedaling Wine Bicycles: the Portland Jewish Oasis - Rabbi Chayim & Simi MishulovinTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected]"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 Jew...

Send us a Text Message.Holy High: How Milwaukee Became Home to a Revolutionary Jewish Prep School - Rabbi Yossi & Ilana BassmanTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected]"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 Libe...

Send us a Text Message.Rabbi Refoel & Chani Silver: Sparkling Beaches, Tiki Torch Menorahs & Jewish Outreach in CuraçaoTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] 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 peo...

Send us a Text Message.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 [email protected] "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 secon...

Send us a Text Message.Rabbi Zalman & Nechama Tiechtel: Growing Jewish Souls In The American HeartlandTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected]"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 ...

Send us a Text Message.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 Eng...

Send us a Text Message.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/Lubavit...