A Cable to Jewish Life

35-CJ Large Chasidic Families
Big is beautiful, as four chasidic women--Chaya Aidel Freeman, Rishi Deitsch, Sara Teleshevsky and Etty Gurevitch--discuss the never-ending wonders and nachas of being mothers of large families.
74-CJ Rich Help for Poor Brides - "Ten Yad"
"The reward for lending a helping hand to a needy kallah (bride) for her wedding is everlasting," say Leah Gurary and Esther Caplan of Keren Ten Yad Hachnosas Kallah. Eileen Fischer shares the difficulties of putting together a wedding with little money and the dignity and joy when helped out by organizations like Ten Yad.
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.
112-CJ Marriage - "The Torah Way"
What is it about marriage and why is it even more necessary when children are involved? Educators and mothers Chana Sharfstein and Nechama Heber talk about Torah-based marriage, the good old-fashioned way, a garden that needs tending and love, in which Torah values supply the water. An eye-opening invitation to marry and raise children that works and lasts a lifetime.
120-CJ Glimpsing the Past
Rafael Guber discusses his search for his hidden past of ancestors, which began at Ellis Island; by the end of his search, he had uncovered 41 relatives he never knew existed. His is a personal odyssey turned into a professional genealogical passion. He tells how you too can make the discovery of your ancestors a powerfully vivid encounter. "And you don't have to be a Marc Chagall or Chaim Soutine to do that," says Guber. "It's guaranteed to be as fresh to the memory even in 150 years from now."
154-CJ Yemenite reunion (1)
Do you want high drama and excitement, sensationalism, the human quest for discovery of self, a totally satisfying TV story about the Lubavitcher Rebbe's emphasis on loving one's fellow Jew, and how "A Cable to Jewish Life" played a major role in helping to reunite at least one Yemenite woman, missing from Israel since birth 47 years ago, suddenly discover her real family and Jewish roots through watching, in her own words, "my only Jewish connection in the world at the time--'A Cable to Jewish Life.'"
155-CJ Yemenite reunion (2)
The lost Yemenite child, Mrs. Tsila Levine, continues with her extraordinary story how she, with no one else to help her except Sampson Giat, president of the Yemenite Jewish Federation of America, two heroes of a living miracle, struggled and dared to hope to reunite with her biological family in Israel--the first of thousands of Yemenite babies since 1950 finally reunited with her mom and sisters. Hear how "A Cable to Jewish Life," thanks to the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe with his emphasis on ahavas Yisrael, played a major role in bringing this about.
159-CJ Dance a Happy Chanukah with Piamenta
Immerse yourself in the "Dream of Redemption" a musical venue of the Days of Moshiach composed and performed by our guest, musician Yosi Piamenta, who truly stages a holy jam session singing songs of Chanukah, songs that fill every sense of the victorious spirit of all Jews at this very special time. This is the family show with lights, food, Jewish family scenes, Chanukah treats of Crown Heights and all of Israel living in the time of Redemption--now!