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The Rebbitzen reveals her identity | Danielle Jacobs
Season 4 Episode 17
Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/UZTQRkr-rIs
Long before social media became what it is today, the internet met Rebbetzin Rivka Leah Zelwig—a charmingly extreme ultra-Orthodox rebbetz…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Why I left activism for Hasidic education | Naftuli Moster
Season 4 Episode 16
Link to video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/IRTvj1_4_14
In this interview, Naftuli Moster reflects on his years as the face of a controversial campaign to reform secular education in Has…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Workout culture coming to the Ultra Orthodox world | Shmilly Feldman
Season 4 Episode 15
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/XYPuTNOry3U
When I was Hasidic, dieting and brisk walking were part of life—but the gym? Muscle-building? Weight training? That was unheard of. Today, a…
Published on 4 months ago
What it's like to grow up in Kiryas Joel | An essay by Frieda Vizel
Season 4 Episode 14
Video version of this posting: https://youtu.be/uHu_17N9GdE
I grew up in a very special place: the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel. It was beautiful and painful all at once. I don't always talk about m…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Are Jews allowed to fight? | a controversial discussion with anti-Zionist Hasidic woman Pearl
Season 4 Episode 13
Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/NXpO0THnx3g
A woman who believes that Jews are prohibited by the Torah to fight, to have an army and nation, shares her theology.
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Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Living on the border and creating the hit TV show Shtisel | Yehonatan Indursky
Season 4 Episode 12
Video format of this interview: https://youtu.be/lzVUnyxpcEE
The most beautiful media content created about the Hasidic community is, arguably, the Israeli hit TV show Shtisel. It was co-created by Ye…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
What it was like to grow up Amish | Martha Ross
Season 4 Episode 11
Link to video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/teadpfXWCO4
Martha Ross grew up Old Order Amish in Middlefield Ohio, left it, and now does YouTube videos about it on the channel @AmishTrans…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Reading the Yiddish children's version of the Book of Exodus
Season 4 Episode 10
Link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/MnFddZtaWdQ
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Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Bonus: music video 'Mein Kind' referenced in my essay on the stories we tell
Season 4
This is the song to advertise the Tzohar organization, which I have referenced in the episode comparing the Netflix Unorthodox show to this song. Here is the video: https://youtu.be/78XBSSDdwjo?si=aX…
Published on 6 months ago
Unorthodox vs the OTHER story | How we talk about people who leave insular societies
Season 4 Episode 9
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/78XBSSDdwjo
The stories we tell affect the ways we process events around us. How we make sense of things like someone's departure from a community. Ever…
Published on 6 months ago