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The kinds of industries Hasidic Jews work in
Season 5 Episode 4
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/ClAU6WJfj8U
One of my earliest video and, in my view, an important one to repost at this time. Forgive…
5 months ago
Watching and reacting to the Tyler Oliveria viral video on Kiryas Joel
Season 5 Episode 3
Video version here: https://youtu.be/ZlWRN4jo-CA
As someone who grew up in Kiryas Joel and left the fold, I have a lot to say on this Hasidic village…
5 months ago
An eye-opening 1977 Yiddish book of female socialization #1
Season 5
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/qUDGHnwTUPw
Follow along with the pdf of the story here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JCIYkr489nAv…
5 months, 1 week ago
The original dissidents of Kiryas Joel | Michael Sussman
Season 5 Episode 2
Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/jcz0xmkm10s
The Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel’s early days in the 1970s and 80s were anything but quie…
5 months, 1 week ago
The oral histories of Bukharian Jews | Abe and Mazal
Season 5 Episode 1
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/koTlTNYXoxI
This video is the extended sit-down conversation from my visit with the Bukharyan Jewish comm…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
My most candid conversation yet | On the Avrum Rosenzweig show
Season 4
Video version here:
https://youtu.be/1j7yKcjT4K8
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https://www.youtube.com/@avrumrosensweigshow
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5 months, 3 weeks ago
Laughing through cancer | Leah Forster
Season 4 Episode 33
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/bY7w9icDKgU
Leah Forster is, as they say in the Hasidic community, “one in a million.” She’s funny, she s…
6 months, 1 week ago
Bonus, livestream: Why I posted and then pulled the video of the bride dancing
Season 4
video link: https://youtube.com/live/OjxrGU4Ajbc
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6 months, 1 week ago
Bonus, livestream: We Had Never Touched. Then Came Our Wedding Night. | Rachel Elitzur Opdoc discussion
Season 4
Video link: https://youtube.com/live/8IEgx00P7OE
A livestream about the NYT op doc about the Wedding Night for Orthodox Jewish couples. Watch the opdo…
6 months, 1 week ago
Jewish law on abortion and inferitily | Pt 2 R' Ysoscher Katz
Season 4 Episode 32
Link to video of this interview: https://youtu.be/qMKonpTHj24
A candid discussion about Orthodox Judaism and its views on abortion, infertility and lo…
6 months, 3 weeks ago