In Episode 48 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, reporter/producer Gary Waleik presents the story of Rabbi Yossi and Rebbetzin Dalia Kulek, Chabad shluchim at the University of Hartford. Though their unique ethnic backgrounds greatly help them empathize with and support a diverse range of Jewish students, their identities have sometimes been the target of racism.
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I Know Yossi from childhood. We’ve grown up together. I remember an ocassion Yossi protected the rest of us on a school bus from a big Goyish kid twice our age that was threatning and taunting us from outside the bus. (The driver had left us to make a phone call or something). Yossi opened the door of the bus and spoke face to face with the שקץ telling him in no uncertain terms what consequences he would dish out for him if he didn’t leave us alone. I never heard the special most impactful stories from his earliest and… Read more »