A Cable to Jewish Life

44-CJ The Rebbe (5) and the Judge
What's it like to be an Orthodox Jewish Judge sitting on the New York State Supreme Court bench? Listen in, as Judge Jerome Hornblass discusses his meetings with the Rebbe and his impact on urban USA. Hear Judge Hornblass's mind-blowing reaction to the Rebbe, who said to him: "Be not afraid to help a Jew--and be a Jew."
50-CJ The Rebbe (10) and the Leader - "Guiding Light for American Jewish Leaders"
Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the President's Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations, introduces us to Jewish leaders and communities of Jews. He shares the Rebbe's profound influence on global affairs and in Hoenlein's own life and approach. Full of humorous insights and sobering thoughts about an umbrella organization where all Jews are presidents.
53-CJ Jewish Legal Defense
With Hy Dechter, the lone Jewish lawyer who fights for Jewish civil rights. He shares thirty years of experience.
55-CJ The Rebbe (11) and the Politician
Democrat Dov Hikind, an Orthodox Jew who doesn't care for political party labels, talks of the Jewish neighborhoods of Borough Park and Flatbush he represents and the non-problems they are suffering from. Model communities.
85-CJ Askan Tziburi, "A Public Servant"
Rabbi Yisroel Rosenfeld explains how and why the public servant plays such an important role in Jewish life and is even mentioned in the siddur (prayer book). He shares many personal stories of his 30 years of public service.
100-CJ Jewish Activism
What drives a Jewish yuppie, with absolutely no connection to chasidic Jews, to suddenly come to their aid at the height of the black riots in Crown Heights in 1991? Now she continues her work in Israel and wherever Jews live. Hear what Beth Gilinsky and Jewish Action Alliance are doing to combat the vicious anti-Semitism in the 1990s.
101-CJ Women for Israel
Following in the path of the Jewish women of old who merited the land of Israel, Ruth Matar, co-founder of "Women in Green," tells how this women's movement with its green hats has organized today to express their love and concern for Israel, and to foster peace.
140-CJ 4-Step Plan to Save Israel for Jews
Shmuel Sackett, co-founder and co-director of Zo Artzeinu, "the organization dedicated to an Israel living according to the laws of King David, not Camp David," and Pearl Witkin, executive director of the American Friends of Zo Artzeinu, come together to propose their amazing and hopeful 4-pronged plan to bring Israel back to its rightful place as a beacon of light unto the world, as a world of Jewish values and a leader into the era of Redemption.
141-CJ Jewish Women March Again
The Women in Green Hats, headed by Ruth Matar, are back on the streets of Israel again, and this time they are determined to exert pressure on Bibi Netanyahu to help him stop the appeasement process. "We're also back in America to marshall the likes of many new Queen Esthers to work with us to get the American people and the U.S. Congress to rally to the side of the Israelis in their fight for survival," said Mrs. Matar. Find out what this highly mobilized, strongly influential group of Women in Green proposes to do to save the soul of Israel by helping Israel be the best Israel can be--for the love of the Jewish people--and for you, too.
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.