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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 sitting at a table, it really breaks your heart." - Rebbetzin Chaya Fuss

Narrated by: Gary Waleik

Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com

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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 it was like, "Whoa! Get yourself to Crown Heights, girl. What are you doing here?'" - Rebbetzin Sarah Korn

Narrated by: Gary Waleik

Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com

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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: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com

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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 spared. This is going to be the greatest [concert] ever’ - Rabbi Yisroel Deren

Narrated by: Gary Waleik

Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com

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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, whatever sticks, you throw it against the wall.”

"When we got here to Berkeley, there were no Baalei Teshuva on campus. Today, our campus shluchim are baalei teshuva that we helped bring to Yiddishkeit. And I do anticipate a tsunami of more Baalei Teshuva."

Narrated by: Gary Waleik

Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com

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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 Rebbetzins from Ukraine who fled but are still tending to their communities as they disperse around the globe.

Narrated by: Gary Waleik

Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com

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"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 going to build a family. It's going to happen right away. There's going to be no obstacles to that. And that is not at all how it happened. And you're opened up into this whole new world of "Okay, well, now what?" Like, the rugs pulled out from under you.  So we really had to accept and work through that "Okay. It wasn't meant to be that way."

Narrated by: Gary Waleik

Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com

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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

Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com

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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

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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 watch reruns of “The Nanny” was about the most Jewish learning that they got... if the rabbi hadn't come into our life, I don't know where the family would have been at this point." - Glen Goldstein

Narrated by: Gary Waleik

Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com

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