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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 6 months, 2 weeks 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 6 months, 3 weeks 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 7 months 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 7 months, 2 weeks 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 7 months, 3 weeks ago
🚨 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 8 months 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 8 months, 2 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 8 months, 3 weeks 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 9 months, 1 week 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 10 months, 2 weeks ago