A Cable to Jewish Life

1-CJ A Place for Every Jew
A Place for Every Jew--There's no place like the Chabad house, and it's probably only a few blocks from your own home, with locations all across the globe. Late-night TV comedian Richard Morris, Wall Street executive Steve Eisenberg, and Rabbi Eli Cohen of NYU share the excitement, the joy, the traditions, the culture and the warmth of finally coming home. Welcome to a house where the front door is always open for you.
11-CJ Inspiration for Growth - "Personal Encounters with Chabad"
Steve Gerber, Esq. (Gitano), Jennifer Schuster (BEA Assoc.), and Steve Eisenberg, V.P. (Gruntul & Co.); three successful executives share personal stories and experiences of Chabad's influence on their fast-paced careers, their conscious Jewish soul, and their lives.
16-CJ Happy New Year, Chasidim - "Yud Tes Kislev"
Rabbi Nissan Mangel, a Holocaust survivor, discusses the chasidic contribution to Judaism. Hear how the Rebbe personally shaped this rabbi's direction, as he translated the Lubavitcher Siddur and the Alter Rebbe's Tanya and wrote the commentary on the Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch, and so much more. After this, you too will surely celebrate this all-important day of Yud Tes Kislev, the New Year's Day of Chasidus. A holiday celebrating the release of the Alter Rebbe from a Russian prison.
21-CJ From Generation to Generation
Rabbis Zalman Posner and Shmuel Lew speak about two generations of Lubavitcher Rebbes: the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, and his successor, the present Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Two generations with different conditions and different challenges, yet both focus on caring for Jews around the globe.
23-CJ To All Corners of the World - "Judaism Down Under" (1)
You gotta believe the very believable Rabbi Yitzchok Groner when he says, "Join Lubavitch and see the world." In a pulsating, scintil-lating discussion, the Rebbe's Australian emissary takes us on a tour of the world of Chabad outreach in far-away Australia, Hong Kong and Morocco, and tells what it's been like to be a foot soldier in the Rebbe's army, and why a relationship between Rebbe and chasid is as deep as the one between father and son. Watch this one with your whole family.
26-CJ Passover with Chabad
The Haggadah, seder, shmura matzah, 4 cups of wine--all tie every Jew with the centuries before him. Come to this Chabad celebration of a meaningful Passover, with Rabbis Eli Cohen and Benny Krasniansky. Come find out why "this night is different from all other nights." Stir your innermost parts when the old-fashioned Passover sounds chance to fall upon your ears. Come celebrate the Rebbe's birthday, the 11th of Nissan, a few days before Passover. And get set to bake the bread of faith--shmura matzahs--in a model matzah bakery.
41-CJ The Rebbe (2) and the Rabbi
Rabbi Yossi Hecht of Eilat, Israel, describes the power of the world-famous Rebbe's farbrengens (chasidic get-togethers) and why the Rebbe once said: "All that is necessary is for a person to perform one small act and G-d will help him and lift him above all things. This is enhanced by the influence of a chasidic farbrengen which . . . can achieve more than the influence of the angel Michoel."
45-CJ The Rebbe (6) and the Lawyer
Attorney Joseph Aronow and Rabbi Benny Krasniansky of Chabad of the Upper East Side discuss the Rebbe's reaching-out to the community at large through the Chabad House, and of the Rebbe's message of joy.
63-CJ Chasidic Education - "The Oholei Torah Way"
Learn why only the Jewish lesson enjoyed can be learned well, and watch the big, proud smile on Host Rabbi Yosef Katzman, former student at Oholei Torah, as Rabbi Yosel Rosenfeld, Dean, and Rabbi Hershel Lustig, Principal, detail the qualities of a chasidic education in the 1990s. A primer on why this should be every Jewish parents' dream for their children.
76-CJ 100 Years in America - "The Kramer Family Reunion"
Milton Kramer and Avery Neumark talk about how the Kramer family helped establish Agudas Chasidai Chabad, the first Lubavitch organization in America. Their efforts helped rescue the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe from Soviet prisons. They also help save him from the Nazis and helped bring him to freedom in America, and so much more. Now all the Kramer descendants meet to celebrate their first 100 years in America. A fascinating story of Jewish heroism.
89-CJ Portrait of a Family of Shluchim (1)
Your host, Rabbi Yosef Katzman of Crown Heights, and his brothers, Mendel of Omaha, NE, Moishe of Staten Island, NY, and Shmuel of Amsterdam, Holland; and their brothers-in-law, Leibel Baumgarten of Coram, NY, and Binyomin Weiss, of Charlotte, NC; and their mechuten, Yankel Lieberman of Kfar Chabad, Israel, tell all what it's like to be a part of the Rebbe's army, spreading Yiddishkeit around the world.
90-CJ Portrait of a Family of Shluchim (2)
Rabbi Yosef Katzman and his family of emissaries of the Rebbe share their trials, tribulations and achievements, living in foreign lands amidst different people and customs.
96-CJ Judaism Down Under (2)
Rabbi Ben Zion Milecki of Australia tells how a young, non-religious lad grew up to become the rabbi of the second largest synagogue in Sydney. All this thanks to the inspiration of the Rebbe and his emissaries in Australia.
98-CJ Tanya! (1) - "Its Bicentennial!"
Rabbi Nissan Mangel, trans-lator of Tanya (foundation of chasidic philosophy) helps celebrate the 200th anniversary of the bible of Chasidus. He introduces us to the world of the Alter Rebbe (the first Chabad/Lubavitcher leader) and his philosophy on how a person can best serve G-d and be at peace with himself.
99-CJ Tanya! (2) - "Its Bicentennial!"
Rabbi Nissan Mangel, translator of Tanya, helps celebrate the 200th anniversary of the bible of Chasidus. Revealing secrets of Torah, Mangel explores the role of the beinuni, the intermediary person, the most desirable level expected of every Jew.
104-CJ Chasidic Healing
Yoske Levin of Kfar Chabad, Israel, tells how Chasidism helps heal ills of individuals and society, and promotes the best kind of human relations. Learn how modern medicine is beginning to appreciate the effect of these alternative methods.
106-CJ The Lubavitch Library Hagaddah Exhibition
Rabbi Shalom Levin, Head Librarian of the Lubavitch Library, takes us for a fascinating tour of two thousand editions of the Passover Haggadah. Since the exodus from Jews from Egypt, the Haggadah has been the most popular book used by Jews at the Passover seder for more than 3,300 years.
108-CJ 49 Steps to Personal Refinement
Rabbi Simon Jacobson, in his new book, reveals that the most time-tested answer to the everlasting search for meaning and purpose in life to achieve the highest level of personal refinement and perfection is found in the Torah. He tells how it's possible for everyone to achieve through a 49-step program, practiced every year when we count the Omer. The counting takes place between the holidays of Passover and Shavuos.
110-CJ Chabad for Collegians
Finally, college students can have a second chance to get a Jewish education, much more than the ABCs of Judaism. Guests Rabbi Yeheskel Lebovic and Chaim Miller take you on a journey where students travel to the hilltops of the old city of Safed, Israel, to the inner city of Lubavitch in Brooklyn, New York, to the countryside of Morristown, New Jersey, or to Kfar Chabad in Israel.
152-CJ The Real Secrets of a Jewish Education
With Rabbi Josef Rosenfeld of Oholei Torah Lubavitch school in Crown Heights as our guide, we take you along an astonishing journey of a Jewish educational institution that began 42 years ago with 3 students in a basement and now is dedicating its newest wing of a institution, whose critics once said, "It won't last two weeks!" If you've ever been on the fence about giving your own children a Jewish education, this is the show that will set your own Jewish soul on fire, as far as that subject goes. Find out the real Hebrew secrets that make a yeshiva-educated child tick.
153-CJ Rosh Hashanah's Wake-Up Call
The way Rabbi Michoel Albukerk of Tzivos Hashem--the largest Jewish organization for children founded by the Rebbe--tells it, you're in for the biggest Rosh Hashanah treat you've ever had. This show's emphasis is on youth and how Tzivos Hashem's shofar factory is turning on hundreds of children to produce their very own shofars for the holiday. If you just want to watch show host Rabbi Yosef Katzman blow an antelope shofar that's almost as big as he is, or if you're into learning how to appreciate, blow and fine-tune your own shofar, get the basics here.
160-CJ Discover Crown Heights
This is the very Crown Heights you've long heard about, and now you too can get a close-up view where the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, has set up his worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, after the Holocaust, to rebuild Judaism via more than 2,000 Torah, Jewish outreach, and social centers around the globe; the ideal place to raise and educate large Jewish families; with Kingston Avenue as its main commercial hub; where one of the most elegant mikvehs for women stands on Union Street; and where heaven and earth virtually come together; and much more.