A Cable to Jewish Life

31-CJ A Time for Fun - "Jewish Style"
Singer/Songwriter/Actor Yoni Gershan acts out true Torah Judaism in a fun way. So, don't even think of watching this without your kids. You'll smile, you'll kvell, you'll tap a table, you'll swell with Jewish pride. Your kids won't ever forget the 10 Commandments--the new way--in rhyme. And your whole family will probably rush out to your backyard and build a sukkah--now!
39-CJ Here Is My G-d - "A Woman's Yeshiva"
Machon Chana Women's College, a first of its kind in America. Educating Jewish women from all walks of life in the way of Torah. Students American Chanita Baumhaft, English-woman Andrea Abrahams-Southon, Russian Chana Traktoueva, and many others tell how they found more than their roots at Machon Chana; they found home.
46-CJ The Rebbe (7) and the Student
What if they held a Jewish get-together weekend-long party and you came? That's what is in store for you as Devorah Shershaw and Rabbi Kasriel Kastel discuss the Rebbe's reach-out program to Jews from all walks of life--via the encounter at a Chabad (pegisha) weekend. A chance to meet the Rebbe, find yourself and others, and be even more curious Jewish.
48-CJ The Rebbe (8) and the Children
Rabbi Shmuel Fogelman discusses the quality of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva education by "training through love, which breeds love." The yeshiva provides this for all our children, secular and religious. Fogelman also discusses the profound role of the Rebbe in educating the world.
63-CJ Chasidic Education - "The Oholei Torah Way"
67-CJ The Puppeteers - Innovation in Education
It's like being a kid in a kosher candy store as one watches Yaakov and Aleeza Horowitz of the "Small Wonder Puppet Theater" share their experiences in educating the young in highly innovative ways. Free admission to this wonderful show, which has everything--live people, puppets, songs, humor, and the Rebbe's message to bring Moshiach--all under one big tent. Enlightening and entertaining.
72-CJ Prayer in School
"Bring back prayer into school and you will reduce the prison population," says Rabbi Noach Bernstein, and lawyer Yitzchok Wagshul says there is nothing unconstitutional about that. Find out how the non-threatening, non-denominational prayer or moment of silence can make all the difference in the world of public schools and our social fabric.
91-CJ Chanukah - Katzman Kinderlach (Children)
Chanale, Mendele, and Levi Katzman help us celebrate the holiday of Chanukah. Hear the exciting story of this eight-day holiday. Learn this holiday's customs. Play a neat game of Dreidel.
93-CJ Heart to Heart (1) - "Perfect Jewish Souls in Imperfect Bodies"
Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Goldstock tells how he organized Heart to Heart as the result of his own daughter born with Down syndrome. Hear how Torah inspiration has helped many families to have the courage and insight to keep such children in their homes and raise many to lead normal lives. Learn about the miracle that happened in Deal, New Jersey.
105-CJ Purim with the Katzman Kiddie Cast
Chanele, Mendel, Levi, Itale, Aizik, Chaya Mushka, Rochele and Ari Katzman entertain you for Purim! They tell the story of the Purim holiday and the customs related to this great holiday. Lots of illustrations from the Megillah --pictures of the wicked Haman to a sweet Esther, a foolish King Ahasuerus and a dashing Mordechai. Truly an adorable show.

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.
113-CJ Kosher Historical Spain
About Sephardic Jews' endless love affair with Spain, and why many Jews are rediscovering so much of their own Jewish way of life in the towns and cities where their ancestors once lived and bloomed before 1492. Noted lecturer Chana Scharfstein takes you on a kosher and educational tour of Spain. Hear about those famous Jewish names--Maimonides, Yehuda Halevi, Abarbanel, et al.-- who were once Spaniards. See loads of footage, including the first synagogue ever built in Madrid, the famous Jewish Quarter in Seville, and Gibraltar, the Crown Colony that rests on the Sabbath.
114-CJ Kosher Scandinavia
About Sephardic Jews' endless love affair with Spain, and why many Jews are rediscovering so much of their own Jewish way of life in the towns and cities where their ancestors once lived and bloomed before 1492. Noted lecturer Chana Scharfstein takes you on a kosher and educational tour of Spain. Hear about those famous Jewish names--Maimonides, Yehuda Halevi, Abarbanel, et al.-- who were once Spaniards. See loads of footage, including the first synagogue ever built in Madrid, the famous Jewish Quarter in Seville, and Gibraltar, the Crown Colony that rests on the Sabbath.
122-CJ Heart to Heart (2) - "The Upside of Down Syndrome"
Hear how Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Goldstock of "Heart to Heart" successfully placed a school-age girl with Down syndrome into the Orthodox yeshivah program--a first in Jewish history--and the amazing thing is that it was his own daughter. Be mystified no more as Dr. Goldstock tells you about the upside of this much-misunderstood illness and discusses the Torah principles that Heart to Heart uses to help "save perfect Jewish souls in less than perfect bodies" from a fate of many extremes called Down syndrome.
127-CJ Winning the War Against Missionaries
Craig Miller, head of the Task Force on Missionaries and Cults, teaches us how to fight against fraudulent religious claims. "We must take responsibility to learn about our own religion," says Miller. He reveals the frightening fact that more Jews have converted to other religions in the past 30 years than in all of our history.
130-CJ Hands-On Chanukah Party
Tired of sitting on your couch or on your hands? Then give a 30-minute look-see at this special do-it-yourself Chanukah show. Learn about olive oil, the menorah and dreidels. Our guest Michoel Albukerk of Tzivos Hashem, the largest Jewish organization for children founded by the Rebbe, shows you many things you and your kids can do with your hands for this holiday. Tzivos Hashem's programs make each holiday alive and interesting for children. We guarantee you'll jump off your couch and shout, "Hurrah for Chanukah!"
137-CJ Get Set For Torah In Cyberspace
Leibel Cohen, creator of the new Cyberspace website, Thinkjewish.com, and Lubavitcher lecturer Rabbi Yosef Jacobson tell how Torah and science are joining forces to help the world's inhabitants reach the depths of G-dliness. By logging on Thinkjewish.com, hear how you can connect to the Jewish world and learn the Torah secrets of Judaism you might have missed along your Jewish path.
138-CJ Rehabilitating Justice
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Joe Hynes and NYC Judge Charles Posner have successfully initiated a flagship court system of rehabilitation via "Project Legalize," throughout the Brooklyn system of justice. And they've also instituted the program as a learning tool in more than 300 Brooklyn schools--public, private, yeshivahs, and parochial schools. Now, it's coming your way, as Project Legalize has been adopted in more than 120 cities in America, and is growing in leaps and bounds. Find out everything you need to know about a new slant on "Justice and Rehabilitation in America. Their program is based on the Torah verse "Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof" - "Pursue Justice."
143-CJ Pure Purim Joy
What do Jewish Calypso music, blowing bubbles, Geula Esther, the Rebbe, singer/actor Yoni Gershan, and 7??or is it 7,000???darling Katzman kids in costumes have in common? The best Purim show ever on TV or this side of heaven??a wild, wacky glimpse into how Jews are still doing their duty, on Purim, to inebriate themselves with joy to the point that they are unable to distin-guish between the phrases "Blessed be Mordechai" and "Cursed be Haman."
150-CJ Celebrating Yiddish Journalism (1)
Right from the outset of the English/Yiddish newspaper, the Algemeiner Journal, Gershon Ber and Tzivia Jacobson, founder and co-founder, knew their paper couldn't fail. "After all," said the Jacobsons, "we had the Lubavitcher Rebbe's personal blessing and encouragement." Hear the Jacobsons, in their own words, tell you why and how this Yiddish newspaper has continued to break the inside stories of all the important events in Jewish history since 1972.
151-CJ Celebrating Yiddish Journalism (2)
Again join Gershon Ber and Tzivia Jacobson, co-founders of the trail-blazing Yiddish/ English newspaper as they discuss their Yiddish writers and columnists and the so-called "tricks of the trade" in uncovering such barely known stories about funding for American yeshivas and why they feel it's important to have Algemeiner Journal writers on both sides of the so-called peace talks 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.