A Cable to Jewish Life

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.
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.
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.
146-CJ Rabbi "Kofs" Up Kosher for Passover
If you are determined to have everything you eat kosher for Passover and want to feel squeaky clean as you march out of Egypt to the Promised Land, then listen to Rabbi Harvey Senter of Kof-K Kosher Supervision point out the fine points of keeping kosher for Passover. "Just because a product does not have pork listed in the ingredients doesn't make it kosher, and even if the ingredients are all kosher, you may still have a problem with equipment," counsels Rabbi Senter. Find out lots more about Passover.
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.
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.
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.