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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 3 months, 2 weeks 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 3 months, 4 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
Published on 4 months, 1 week 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 4 months, 2 weeks 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 4 months, 2 weeks ago
A visually impaired Hasidic woman tells her story | Rochel Bodek
Season 4 Episode 8
Video link: https://youtu.be/28lP8j8swA0
Please support Rochel Yenty Bodek's wonderful work by donating: https://insightbeyondeyesight.org/donate Rochel Yenty Bodek is a Hasidic woman who lost her sig…
Published on 5 months ago
A historian's warning | Anna Shternshis
Season 4 Episode 7
Link to video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/hKN0_75EuqE
Anna Shternshis is a Professor of Yiddish studies and the director of the department of Jewish Studies at the University of Toront…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
A revolution in Yiddish arts & theater by Hasidim | Ari Abromowitz
Season 4 Episode 6
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/pVfY5wZlPec
There's a whole emerging world of Hasidic theater, acted by men, and including a cast and stories of men only. This has been a tiny element of …
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I grew up in Kiryas Joel and embraced plant medicine
Season 4 Episode 5
Video version of this interview here: https://youtu.be/kMxyRkjljm8?si=hcjjD0_-izvquKxB
Today's interview is about psychedelics, Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, and one extraordinary woman's journey! Please jo…
Published on 6 months ago
"I craved religion and even tried Christianity" | In Conversation with comedian Antonia Lassar
Season 4 Episode 4
Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/ctuFi83643E
Antonia Lassar is a Jewish comedian who grew up with very little Judaism. She later became interested in various forms of religion, going on …
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago