A Cable to Jewish Life

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.
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.
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.
49-CJ The Rebbe (9) and the Blacks
Professor Richard Green of Medgar Evers College and the Crown Heights Youth Collective and Dr. David Lazerson discuss the cooperation between blacks and Jews in Crown Heights as a result of the Rebbe's inspiration. Green relates the spiritual impact the Rebbe had on him and the group of black youths when they met him in "770."
73-CJ The Rebbe and Israel (14)
Rabbi Mendel Gluckowsky of Rechovot, Israel, shares some of the feelings Jews in Israel have about the Rebbe and why his popularity in Israel continues to grow. Hear about the McDonald's that went kosher because of Chabad's menorah in the mall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
142-CJ Abraham's Tent Still Lives!
Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch! Thirty yards from the Western Wall, a modern-day Abraham and Sarah, Rabbi Yechiel Koslovsky and his wife Esther, have set up a free hospitality center, "Abraham's Tent," and are feeding hundreds of people--rich man, poor man, Torah scholar, soldier and whomever--Shabbat meals fit for a Jewish king. Find out how Abraham's Tent is forcing all Israel to take a good new look at an old tradition--ahavas Yisrael.
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.
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.