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Friday, 11 Nisan, 5784
  |  April 19, 2024

Fighting for a Prison Sukkah

COLlive presents: The Shluchim Show, a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. Episode #12: Rabbi Dovid Goldstein of Chabad of West Houston tells of his long fight to build a Sukkah for one inmate, and of an emotional Kol Nidrei in prison. Audio

Our Shlichus in Sin City

COLlive presents: The Shluchim Show, a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. Episode #11: Rabbi Shea Harlig of Las Vegas, Nevada, tells of a father and daughter reunited after 15 years and how an entire family changed for good. Audio, Video, Photos

Reaching Out in Omaha

COLlive presents: The Shluchim Show, a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. Episode #10: Rabbi M. Mendel Katzman of Omaha, Nebraska speaks of his early days in Nebraska and the challenges faced. Audio, Photos

Request From a Bank CEO

COLlive presents: The Shluchim Show, a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. Episode #9: Rabbi Yitzchok Wolf of the Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School in Skokie, Illinois, speaks of a request from his bank's CEO and an unexpected return on a visit to the hospital. Audio, Photos

You Can Always Come Home

COLlive presents: The Shluchim Show, a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. Episode #8: Rabbi Yisroel Bernath of Chabad of NDG and Loyola Campus in Montreal talks of affecting a student whose parents had already given up on him, and the event that made headlines. Audio, Photos

The $350,000 Surprise Gift

COLlive presents: The Shluchim Show, a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim, their life and work, in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. Episode #7: Alabama Shluchim Rabbis Yossi Posner and Yossi Friedman tell about the last wish of a terminally ill teenager and about a surprise gift for Chabad. Audio

The Only Motorcycle Shliach

COLlive presents: The Shluchim Show, a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim, their life and work, in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. Episode #6: S. Francisco, CA, Rabbi Yosef Langer tells of his iconic motorcycle, radio host Michael Savage and becoming the 'Rally Rabbi' of the S. Francisco Giants. Audio, Video

The Surprise Wedding Guest

COLlive presents: The Shluchim Show, a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim, their life and work, in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. This week: Shliach to Salt Lake City, Utah, Rabbi Benny Zippel, tells of Shlichus in the "Mormon capital of the world," and why no distance is too far to visit a Jewish teen. Audio

The One Forbidden Word

COLlive is proud to present "The Shluchim Show," a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim who discuss their life and work, in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. This week: Shliach to Columbia University, New York, Rabbi Yonah Blum, tells of the Jew who was to marry a non-Jew - but one thing he wouldn't agree to on any circumstances. Audio

A Jew’s Final Words in Santa Fe

COLlive is proud to present "The Shluchim Show," a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim who discuss their life and work, in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. This week: Shliach to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Rabbi Berel Levertov, tells of a Jew on his death bed, on the eve of December 24, with no Chevra Kaddisha burial services in sight. Full Story

Everlasting Impact of a Meeting

COLlive is proud to present "The Shluchim Show," a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim who discuss their life and work, in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. This week: Shliach of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, Rabbi Ari Drelich explains how the meeting of another Jew has everlasting effects. Audio

“I Was Saved From Debt”

COLlive is proud to launch "The Shluchim Show," a weekly podcast featuring Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim who discuss their life and work, in coordination with TheCoolJew.com. This week: Head Shliach of Florida, Rabbi Avraham Korf reveals how he was saved from debt and the far-reach of summer camps. Audio

How Coca-Cola Got Kosher

In the 1930s, Coca-Cola was the national drink. But there was a problem—no one knew if Coke was kosher. Coca-Cola’s formula was secret, known to only a few executives. To this day, the original recipe remains locked away in a vault of the Sun Trust Bank in Atlanta. Rabbi Tobias Geffen of Atlanta took upon himself to determine the kashrut status. Audio

JabadTube a Hit in Venezuela

In Venezuela, after ten years serving the downtown Jewish community of Caracas, Shliach Rabbi Yosef Chaim Slavin says that this past year was the most successful. The credit, he says, goes to a 3 minute JabadTube clip which he has prepared each week since December 2007. "People who I have never met before thank me for the show." Full Story, Video

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