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The complicated relationship between animals and Orthodox Jews | discussing myths with Mendel Hersh Paneth
Season 3 Episode 18
Link to video version of this conversation:
https://youtu.be/O-ov6vTAAqQ?si=uqY1x8Yt-8woN-TD
In this video I talk to Hasidic Jew Rabbi Mendel Hersh Pan…
1 year, 8 months ago
When one half of a town turns on the other | Interview with Director Igor Golyak
Season 3 Episode 17
*Note: the play discussed here contains violence*
For the video version of this interview see here.
In this long-form interview, I talk to theater dire…
1 year, 9 months ago
What life is like for a Hasidic lady in the Catskills today | With comedian Leah Forster
Season 3 Episode 16
For YouTube version see here: https://youtu.be/DQgG_Pzxazg
Baily is a character of a Hasidic woman who spends her summers in the bungalow colonies in …
1 year, 10 months ago
A Bungalow Colony for Survivors I In Conversation with Director Andrew Jacobs
Season 3 Episode 15
Andrew Jacobs directed the beautiful documentary 'Four Seasons Lodge' about holocaust survivors who spent every summer in the Catskills in a bungalow…
1 year, 10 months ago
He returned to live in the most insular Israeli enclave after leaving it | Tuvia Tenonbom Interview
Season 3 Episode 14
Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/311WBTY7mrs
Tuvia Tenonbom is a character! He grew up in the Haredi enclave of Bnei Brak, which I've…
1 year, 11 months ago
"No one had a grandfather" | Gita recounts the Hasidic community after the holocaust
Season 3 Episode 13
Video interview: https://youtu.be/2saQ0LEwZXQ
Gita Katz is a larger-than-life character. I got to know her through Pearl, the famous Hasidic woman who…
2 years ago
"We hid the piano from my Hasidic father" | The Singer Riki Rose shares her story
Season 3 Episode 12
For the video version of this segment, click here: https://youtu.be/jiE9cTn6Yi0
Riki Rose grew up in Hasidic Williamsburg, in a very conservative fami…
2 years ago
Yiddish versus Hebrew the battle of two Jewish languages | In Conversation with Eddy Portnoy
Season 3 Episode 11
Video version of this segment: https://youtu.be/tq8y3KkAWTk
As many of you know, my first language is Yiddish. It is the language of the Satmar Hasidi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why do we love to talk about Cults? | In Conversation with Guinevere Turner
Season 3 Episode 10
For the video version of this discussion, see here: https://youtu.be/S2LMqtNjg6c
The Hasidic community has been the subject of great, lurid fascinatio…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Chained Wife / the Jewish Aguna Crisis | In Conversation with Keshet Starr
Season 3 Episode 9
Video version of this segment here: https://youtu.be/_H1hjrS2MLo
A chained wife is a woman who is chained to a man in marriage, even after the relatio…
2 years, 3 months ago