Chabad… Available at a Walmart Near You

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By COLlive reporter

4,743 branches of Walmart across America will be selling DVDs of the 10-episode TV series where actor Jon Voight and film producer Steven Paul learn about Chabad with the help of Rabbis Chaim Nachum and Levi Cunin.

The Jewish Life Television network (JLTV) recently completed airing the “Friends of Chabad” television show and will be selling the 10 episodes DVD and Blu-ray disk for home viewing.

They will be sold at Walmart’s chain of hypermarkets and discount department stores across the United States which numbers 4,743 branches, COLlive.com has learned.

The show is hosted by Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, film producer and screenwriter Steven Paul, and the brothers Rabbi Chaim Nachum Cunin of Chabad West Coast Headquarters and Rabbi Levi Cunin of Chabad of Malibu.

It began as one of the many tributes for Rabbi Tzemach Cunin OBM, who ran Chabad of Century City in Los Angeles, California, and tragically passed away in his prime at the age of 43.

“While Tzemach was learning in Australia, Jon Voight was filming a movie there and they got really close and started learning together,” Rabbi Chaim Nachum Cunin said. Voight, who isn’t Jewish, is a staunch supporter of Chabad and appears annually at the Chabad “To Life” Telethon.

Episodes were filmed at Bais Chaya Mushka on Pico Blvd. which is a replica of 770 Eastern Parkway – Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York. “The fact that it was filmed there has special significance since Tzemach was involved in every detail of the construction and building of the school,” his brother Rabbi Levi Cunin told COLlive. “Tzemach insisted that the building be constructed as strong as possible – in fact, more than necessary – since young children will be learning there daily,” he said.

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