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🚨 For women, girls, AND men and boys | In conversation with Jessica Roda
Season 4 Episode 3
Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/blLciT0egb4
Jessica Roda just published the book "For Women and Girls Only" on Orthodox Jewish women's performances. You can find her book here: https…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
"I risk everything when speaking out as a woman in Kiryas Joel" | Exclusive interview with Fradel Neuman
Season 4 Episode 2
Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/HoTzWaF7dU8
So many stories about the Hasidic Jews of the village of Kiryas Joel come from people who have left it. Or, often it will come from villag…
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Messiah Energy and Wholesome Comedy | Interview with Modi Rosenfeld
Season 4 Episode 1
Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/dlp7-4Aq1tM
Modi Rosenfeld is a brilliant and wonderful Jewish comedian whose work I've long been a huge fan of. He is able to talk to any audience, a…
Published on 7 months ago
My Chanukah Memories | Reading: Circumcised Chanukah Gifts
Season 3 Episode 26
Video link: https://youtu.be/J1XGAMK4wng
Happy Chanukah! This Chanukah I want to share some of my childhood memories by reading to you an unpublished essay about my childhood memories of Chanukah in t…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Sex ed in the Hasidic community | A Hasidic grooms receives the birds and the bees talk
Season 3 Episode 25
Video version of this posting: https://youtu.be/Gk917OpgS_Q
It is the tradition that before a Hasidic young man gets married, he attends a private session with an older rabbi who guides him in matters…
Published on 9 months ago
The intersection of Sex and Piety | In Conversation with Intimacy Coach Peggy Greenfield
Season 3 Episode 24
Video version here: https://youtu.be/AUdw8W71Gv8
*Sensitive content warning. This conversation contains adult themes.*
Peggy Greenfield is a certified relationship and intimacy coach who grew up in the…
Published on 9 months ago
A battle for land between Hasidim and their neighbors | In conversation with Jesse Sweet
Season 3 Episode 23
Video link: https://youtu.be/Ovl9HbcTuUI
This is a discussion about the documentary 'City of Joel', with the filmmaker Jesse Sweet. It's a documentary about a turf war in the insular Hasidic Village o…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Talmud as a Door | In Conversation with Miriam Anzovin
Season 3 Episode 22
Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/vbwZcttuNOQ
Miriam Anzovin is a Jewish content creator who does videos about the Talmud, Jewish lore reactions and even holiday themed makeup tutorial…
Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago
A Jew from today, but from yesterday... | In Conversation with Lea Kalisch
Season 3 Episode 21
Video version of this interview here: https://youtu.be/5-RsTIrIbmo
Lea Kalisch has a dream to sing at the Superbowl, in Yiddish, with a shtreimel. She is a singer of many genres, but some of her Yiddi…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Reflections a year after October 7th; stream of consciousness sharing
Season 3 Episode 20
Youtube video: https://youtu.be/aTkJpC3h7cg
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago