Nov 1, 20261h 20mS1
Rabbi Gedalia Potash grew up in the 1980s in the Lubavitch community of Stamford Hill and today is a shliach in the Noe Valley area of San Francisco. In this episode, he shares his memories growing up as a boy in...
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Homesick for Lubavitch
Hosted by Bentzi Avtzon · religion · EN
About this Podcast:
An exploration of Lubavitch identity in 2023, hosted by Bentzi Avtzon.
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Who hosts Homesick for Lubavitch?
Homesick for Lubavitch is hosted by Bentzi Avtzon. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
What has Homesick for Lubavitch covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Ep. 102 // "The Army in Stamford Hill" w/ Rabbi Gedalia Potash" (1 November 2026, 80 minutes), "Ep. 101 // "The Two Worlds" w/ Rabbi Betzalel Marinovsky" (25 October 2026, 105 minutes), and "Ep. 100 // "LIVE Q&A" moderated by Shaul Wolf" (6 September 2026, 95 minutes).
How often does Homesick for Lubavitch publish?
Homesick for Lubavitch publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 109 minutes across 100 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Homesick for Lubavitch?
Booking probability for Homesick for Lubavitch is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Homesick for Lubavitch requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Homesick for Lubavitch's contact route on record: verified email.
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Bentzi Avtzon hosts Homesick for Lubavitch, a religion podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Homesick for Lubavitch
Ep. 101 // "The Two Worlds" w/ Rabbi Betzalel Marinovsky
Oct 25, 20261h 45mRabbi Betzalel Marinovsky grew up as a young boy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan under the rule of the Soviet Union until an earthquake allowed his family to emigrate to Israel. In this episode, he shares the unbelievable story...
Episode #100
Ep. 100 // "LIVE Q&A" moderated by Shaul Wolf
Sep 6, 20261h 35mS1To 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 by Shaul Wolf.In this episode, we share the...
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Ep. 99 // "What Will Bring Moshiach?" w/ Rabbi Heschel Greenberg
Aug 30, 20262h 4mRabbi 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 memories of his father and late Rosh Yeshiva in the...
- Aug 23, 20261h 17mS1
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 Mochkin shares how activities of Tzach that he began...
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- Aug 16, 20261h 44mS1
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 it was like growing up in a small town community...
- Aug 9, 20262h 16mS1
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 shares his own journey to the study of chassidus, his...
- Aug 2, 20262h 14mS1
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, dealt with the tragic events that shaped Zalman's...
- Jul 26, 20261h 35mS1
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 Aleph Institute.In this episode, we discuss his...
- Jul 19, 20261h 22mS1
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. In this episode, he shares his own personal...
- Jul 12, 20261h 47mS1
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 grandchildren. In this episode, he shares his...
- Jul 5, 20261h 24mS1
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 Ohr Sameach in Jerusalem, then to Ner Yisroel in...
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Ep. 90 // "A Bochur in the 60s" w/ Rabbi Yosef Minkowitz
Jun 28, 20262h 15mRabbi 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 War II before moving with his family to Brooklyn, NY...
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Ep. 89 // "In A Distant Place" w/ Rabbi Lazer Gurkow
Jun 17, 20262h 39mRabbi 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 growing up in Boston in the home of two parents who...
- Apr 12, 20262h 42mS1
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 probiotic farm in Binghamton, NY where he and his...
- Mar 29, 20261h 20mS1
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 Rebbe Rayatz.In this episode, she shares vivid...
- Mar 22, 20261h 41mS1
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 traditional household that slowly became closer to...
- Mar 15, 20261h 42mS1
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 his grandfather who served in the British armed...
- Jan 18, 20261h 41mS1
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 mother of their eleven children suddenly passed...
- Jan 11, 20262h 4mS1
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 Crown Heights in the home of the famed chossid Reb...
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Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
founder and host of 18Forty; director of education for NCSY; Assistant Professor of Jewish Values at Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business
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Simon Jacobson
Bestselling Author and Founding Dean of The Meaningful Life Center, The Meaningful Life Center
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Rabbi Moshe Genuth
Gal Einai Institute
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Reb Yitzchok Gniwisch
Lubavitch
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