Homesick for Lubavitch

Ep. 100 // "LIVE Q&A" moderated by Shaul Wolf

To celebrate the 100th episode, HFL hosted a live event in Crown Heights attended by friends and listeners of the podcast with a Q&A of HFL host, Bentzi Avtzon, moderated

Ep. 99 // "What Will Bring Moshiach?" w/ Rabbi Heschel Greenberg

Rabbi Heschel Greenberg is the rabbi of The Jewish Discovery Center in Buffalo where he is a shliach for more than fifty years. In this episode, Rabbi Greenberg shares m

Ep. 98 // "Montreal Shlichus" w/ Rabbi Berel Mochkin

Rabbi Berel Mochkin grew up in Tashkent and came to Montreal as a boy where his father, Reb Peretz Mochkin, served as the community mashpia. In this episode, Rabbi Mochki

Ep. 97 // "One Student At A Time" w/ Rabbi Uri Perlman

Rabbi Uri Perlman grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania and founded the Wilkes Yeshiva which is now based in the nearby town of Canadensis. In this episode, he shares what i

Ep. 96 // "My Journey to Bittul" w/ Rabbi Moshe Genuth

Rabbi Moshe Genuth grew up in Cleveland and Eretz Yisroel and today works as a secretary to Rabbi Yitzchok Ginsburgh at the Gal Einai Institute. In this episode, he shar

Ep. 95 // "The Years Gone By" w/ Rabbi Zalman Lieberow

Rabbi Zalman Lieberow grew up in London, England and is a shliach today in Flatbush.In this episode, we discuss his memories of how his grandfather, Reb Mendel Futerfas,

Ep. 94 // "Talking the Unfathomable" w/ Rabbi Mendy Katz

Rabbi Mendy Katz grew up in Miami Beach as part of what was then a very small Chabad community and lives today in Surfside where he works as a director of programs at The

Ep. 93 // "American Chinuch" w/ Rabbi Herschel Lustig

Rabbi Herschel Lustig was the dean of Oholei Torah Yeshiva, the largest Chabad boys school in America, for more than forty years and today serves as the Dean Emeritus. I

Ep. 92 // "One More Bochur in Yeshiva" w/ Reb Yitzchok Gniwisch

Reb Yitzchok Gniwisch survived World War II as a young infant together with his father and lives today in Montreal with his wife, children, grandchildren and great grandc

Ep. 91 // "Where Are Today's Baal Teshuvas?" w/ Rabbi Ronnie Fine

Rabbi Ronnie Fine is a shliach in the Queen Mary neighborhood of Montreal.He grew up in Toronto in a secular Israeli family, and his exploration as a teenager took him to

Ep. 90 // "A Bochur in the 60s" w/ Rabbi Yosef Minkowitz

Rabbi Yosef Minkowitz is the dean of Academie Beis Rivka in Montreal, Canada. In this episode, he shares his memories growing up in Paris in the years following World Wa

Ep. 89 // "In A Distant Place" w/ Rabbi Lazer Gurkow

Rabbi Lazer Gurkow is a shliach in London, Ontario where he serves as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Tefilah. In this episode, Rabbi Gurkow shares his memories of growin

Ep. 88 // "A Baal Teshuva's Eyes" w/ Reb Simcha Gottleib

Reb Simcha Gottleib lives today in North Miami Beach where he practices Chinese medicine and works on different literary projects. Back in the 1960s he lived on a probio

Ep. 87 // "99 Years of Lubavitch" w/ Mrs. Hadassah Carlebach

Mrs Hadassah Carlebach was born in the Soviet Union less than a decade after the Communist revolution to Rabbi and Mrs Shneur Zalman Schneerson, second cousins of the Reb

Ep. 86 // "Australian Balebos" w/ R' Don Wolf

Reb Don Wolf grew up and lives today in Melbourne, Australia where he runs a real estate and construction business.The child of Holocaust survivors, Don grew up in a trad

Ep. 85 // "In Defense of Temimus" w/ Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe lives today in Springfield, MA where he serves as the rabbi at Congregation Bnei Torah.In this episode, we discuss the "temimus," the simple faith, of

Ep. 84 // "When We Run Out of Answers" w/ R' Gershon Schusterman

Reb Gershon Schusterman grew up in Brooklyn and today lives in Los Angeles. Almost forty years ago he was on shlichus in Long Beach, California when his first wife and m

Ep. 83 // "On The Topic of Closeness" w/ Rabbi Leibel Korf

Rabbi Leibel Korf grew up in Crown Heights and is a shliach today in Los Feliz, a neighborhood in Los Angeles.In this episode, we discuss what it was like growing up in C

Ep. 82 // "Wheelchair At The Rebbe's Farbrengen" w/ Tzvi Burston

Tzvi Burston grew up in Crown Heights and lives today in Los Angeles.After an accident during his birth, Tzvi was diagnosed with cerebral palsy which resulted in his bein

Ep. 81 // "The Case for Optimism" w/ Rabbi Mendel Cohen

Rabbi Mendel Cohen grew up in Montreal and has been on shlichus to Sacramento for over thirty years.In this conversation, he lays out the case for optimism for Chabad cha