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Rivkush

The CJN Podcast Network

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Rivka "Rivkush" Campbell, a Jew of Jamaican descent, has been one of Canada's most vocal Jews of colour. In this podcast, she interviews fascinating Jews of colour from all over the world, opening dialogue with the mainstream Jewish community about their views, perspectives and experiences.
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There are so many ways to be a family, and every kind of family has something to teach you. Family Proclamations is all about the history and evolution of relationships, gender, and sexuality. Award-winning journalist Blair Hodges talks to best-selling authors about dating, marriage, divorce, single life, parenting, childlessness, gender identity, human biology, sex, and more.
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The New Monastics

Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality

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We dialogue with some of today's leading spiritual teachers and thinkers on all aspects of the contemplative life, with a special focus on interspirituality and new monasticism. Amid continuing changes to our spiritual and religious landscape, we explore the tenets of living a life dedicated to spiritual development and truth.
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Whoever said history was boring clearly never heard these stories…Welcome to Jewish History Nerds! Join hosts Yael and Schwab each week as they take a dive into some deep cuts of Jewish history. From the Jewish Da Vinci Code to mass suicide pacts, explore true stories that feel larger than life. Be in touch: nerds@jewishunpacked.com
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Living the life of an Orthodox Jew in the 21st Century often necessitates a very significant income. Unfortunately, many are struggling to keep up. The Problem Is Bigger Than We Realize The cost of life for an Orthodox family with children can range from $150,000 to $350,000 or more, depending on city and schools of choice, lifestyle choices and number of children. The median income in America is $68,000 per family. This means that a family would potentially need to be in the top 5% of all i ...
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Taking Back the Narrative is a Zionism education initiative (www.tbtnisrael.com), which aims to fill in the historical 2,000 'gap' proving Jews have had a continuous presence in Israel. This podcast delves deeper into topics relating to Israel, Jews as a people, and current events relating to Taking Back the Narrative.
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Brendon Marotta is a filmmaker, author, and speaker. He is best known for his feature-length documentary American Circumcision, which appeared on Netflix. He is the author of multiple books, the next of which explores the treatment of children as a social justice issue.
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The Orthonomics Podcast explores issues of importance to the Orthodox Jewish community, through the dual lenses of data – drawn from a wide range of sources – and informed conversations with knowledgeable and often opinionated experts. Each episode also includes a segment titled “What do you want to know about the Orthodox community?” In which our guest, as well as our listeners, get to pose their questions on issues that intrigue them, and we answer your questions.
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The Chutzpah Podcast

JOFA & NY Jewish Week

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Join us for an audacious journey to redefine chutzpah! A joint project between The New York Jewish Week and the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance to meet rabble-rousers in the Jewish community upending the status quo for the better! #ChutzpahPodcast #IGotChutzpah Subscribe to get notified when the first episode drops!
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This podcast is a recording of the pieces on Neshamas.com, a site for anonymous Jewish writing. Each piece is done by a voice actor who has generously volunteered his or her time to this project. Our goal? To give voice to the people who feel they do not have one. We do it on our site, and now we're doing it with actual voices. About Neshamas: Neshamas was created because of a need we, the creators of Hevria, saw in the Jewish community: to share what’s deep, down in our souls without the ad ...
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In this special episode of the Dialogue Journal Podcast, we shine a spotlight on Family Proclamations, a thought-provoking show in the Dialogue Podcast Network hosted by award-winning journalist Blair Hodges. Family Proclamations explores the history… The post DPN Featured Episode: Family Proclamations: Out of the Hasidic Closet (with Sara Glass) a…
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As an ultra-Orthodox Jew, Sara Glass was raised to believe her purpose in life was to marry a righteous man and bear children, all to the glory of God. On the outside, she was following that plan to perfection. But on the inside, something was pulling her in a very different direction. It was traumatic, and she would have to risk everything to find…
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Known for his revolutionary - and often controversial - TikTok videos calling out the worst in frum society, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Gottlieb chats with Shoshanna and Anne on kabala, his worldview, and why women must keep fighting for Torah to win.By Anne Gordon and Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll
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This week I have two stories for you for Yud Beis and Yud Gimmel Tamuz, the festival of liberation of the Rebbe Rayatz, the first is about a chassid of the Rebbe Rayatz who is arrested by the NKVD secret police and goes to the Rebbe for advice and the second is about the hesitations of Rebbetzin Tzviyah Eliyahu about her husband becoming the chief …
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When the University of Windsor recently conceded to the demands of its pro-Palestinian encampment protesters, officials signed an agreement that stated, among other anti-Israel sentiments, the post-secondary institution would affirm "its commitment towards principles of decolonization... in the context of the occupation of Palestine." The narrative…
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It's not every day you hear from someone helping people make thousands... no, tens of thousands... maybe even hundreds of thousands of dollars more per year. This is that episode. Its potential to impact families and multiple generations is immense with 90% of workers in the U.S. being employed by someone else. A few days before October 7th, 2023, …
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Join us for our special 2-fer episode with Candice and Dennis Wendt for our only Gospel Study this July. Candice Wendt works at McGill University’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, where she works to… The post Creating safe, sacred spaces through the lessons of Alma: Gospel Study with Candice and Dennis Wendt appeared first on Dialogue Journ…
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This week I have two stories for you for Gimmel Tamuz, the yahrzeit of the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, the first is about the miraculous birth of someone who never met the Lubavitcher Rebbe and the second about a promising yeshiva bocher who tried to lie to the Rebbe.If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coff…
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In this episode of the Dialogue Out Loud Podcast, join Dialogue Poetry Editor Terresa Wellborn as she engages in a profound conversation with poets Hilary Brown and Heidi Naylor. Both poets have contributed to the… The post Summer 2024 Poetry: A Conversation with Hilary Brown And Heidi Naylor appeared first on Dialogue Journal.…
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This week I have three stories for you, the first is about a simple chassid of the Shpoler Zayde who has his life saving stolen by a Russian solider and goes to the Tzadik for help, the second about an undercover unit in the IDF deciding to wear tzitziot and the third about Reb Mordechai Dov of Hornisteipl who needed to have surgery to remove a sor…
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In this episode, we have a roundtable discussion of spiritual issues with psychotherapist, Lisa Chatham. In Part I, we talk about the complex legacies of brilliant spiritual teachers, like Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who are associated with inappropriate behavior or scandals. In Part II, we explore the spirituality of our most distant past in Europea…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a wealthy Jew who comes to the Chasam Sofer for a loan and the second about the Rebbe Maharash before he was rebbe and a very insistent woman who wanted a blessing for children.If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhul…
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Meet Igor Meystelman, a debt specialist who gives us an inside look into the world of debt. He uncovers the real truth behind credit cards like you've never heard before and shares eye-opening stories about the debt people are facing behind closed doors. He was so eloquent and quite a few of the things he shares will really open your mind. To conta…
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What does it mean to be a man? It depends on who you ask. And it depends on *when* you ask, because masculinity has always been a moving target. In this episode we travel back to ancient Rome, where manly men loved war, violence, and sexual conquest. Mike Pope says this history has powerful relevance for us today. We're talking about his book, Lucr…
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Jenny Webb takes on a journey through the first part of the book of Alma in this Gospel Study. Jenny Webb works as the global head of project management for Ravensburger Games. Jenny spent 15… The post Getting to know ourselves through the lens of scripture: Gospel Study with Jenny Webb appeared first on Dialogue Journal.…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a wedding dowry and the controversy that it creates and the second about a very insistent milkman who finds a bag of coins in the street.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your…
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Widespread anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the rebirth of Polish statehood out of World War I and Polish-Soviet War. In Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920 (Cambridge UP, 2018), William W. Hagen offers the pogroms' first scholarly account, revealing how they served as brutal stagings by ordinary people of scenarios dramatizing popular anti-Je…
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In this special Pride Month episode of Dialogue Out Loud, join us for an insightful conversation with artist Charlotte Condie, whose compelling work is featured in the spring issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon… The post Deconstructing Religion Through Art: A Conversation with Charlotte Condie appeared first on Dialogue Journal.…
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There's a fact Zilka Joseph likes to toss out to prove how old the Bene Israel culture is: the community, native to the Indian subcontinent, spent centuries unaware of what Hanukkah was. That's because the first Bene Israel people arrived on the shores of modern-day India in 175 BCE, according to some estimates—almost a full decade before the Macca…
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Eris Young is author of the go-to book on everything non-binary. They break down the basics of the gender binary, painting a more expansive, inclusive, and accurate picture of human identity. What is it like to be nonbinary? What challenges do people face? What about healthcare for nonbinary folks? All this and more, as we talk to Eris Young about …
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about how the Maggid of Mezritch came to find out if the Baal Shem Tov is truly holy or just does miracles and the second about a special chevruta of two Torah scholars and one of them having doubts about Hashem's existance.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to bu…
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When Avi was called up on October 7 (for 5 of the next 8 months), his wife, Bazy, became a "Milu-Ima" (a reservist is called a miliumnik). Home with 4 beloved children and an uncountable number of diapers to change, Bazy was one of 70 women in comparable situations in her neighborhood alone. She set out to do something for her neighbors... and her …
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Diana Hardy describes how she seeks prayerful guidance in discussing tangled up topics in this Gospel Study focused on the end of Mosiah and first part of Alma. Diana Bate Hardy is an attorney and… The post Seeking Inspiration Among Political Divides: Gospel Study with Diana Hardy appeared first on Dialogue Journal.…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a Misnaged (an opposer to the Chassidim) who came to Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk to determine whether he was really a tzadik or a big fake and the second a story I heard on shabbos when a Haredi rabbi was asked by an injured former solider why Haredim like him don't have to serve in the IDF.If …
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In The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2024), Glenn Dynner tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland between the two World Wars. In the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish mystical movement appeared to be in shambles. Hasidic leaders had dispersed, Hasidic courts lay in r…
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Have you ever wondered how many people get financial help from their parents when purchasing a home? What mistakes do people make when it comes to buying or selling a home? What should people know about interest rates? What are strategies for building wealth through real estate? We spoke with Yael Ishakis, a loan officer with FM Home Loans, who dro…
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Send us a Text Message. Are human rights a social construct? Professor Benjamin Gregg, author of Human Rights as Social Construction and Creating Human Nature: The Political Challenges of Genetic Engineering, argues they are, but thinking of human rights as a social construct strengthens them. In this in-person discussion, we explore how political …
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In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, we feature an engaging conversation with two talented poets from the Spring 2024 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Join us as M. Rather Jr. and… The post Spring 2024 Poetry: A Conversation with Robbie Taggart & M. Rather Jr. appeared first on Dialogue Journal.…
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Born in Aotearoa (New Zealand), Grandmother Arapata is a healer who holds the indigenous lineages of both the Maori and Samoan ancestral bloodlines. In this episode we talk about Grandmother Arapata’s upbringing with traditional teachings, the stigmas of colonization, the different challenges of indigenous peoples in the United States and New Zeala…
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Brandon and I get into the weeds of why both American Jewish leadership has failed Jews in America and in Israel, and why Israeli leadership needs a complete overhaul. The sorry excuse for leadership has jerked Israel down a path of capitulation to the needs of the antisemitic West, has fueled the ease of terrorism against Jews in the Jewish homela…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a wealthy Torah scholar who insists that the Baal Shem Tov teach him the secret of understanding the birds' speech and the second about an unlikely Chassidic minyan in the middle of nowhere in Italy.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. http…
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Maggie Smith gives us an unflinching look at divorce today and what it means to live and write our own lives. Her best-selling memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, is a story about a mother’s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman’s love and regard for herself. Need some divorce catharsis? Want to hear what it's like to keep…
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Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland--some still in their teens--helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid …
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"The Polish Police, commonly called the Blue or uniformed police in order to avoid using the term “Polish,” has played a most lamentable role in the extermination of the Jews of Poland. The uniformed police has been an enthusiastic executor of all German directives regarding the Jews." -Emanuel Ringelblum, Warsaw, 1943. Shortly after the occupation…
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Join us for an enlightening conversation with author Kyle Jepson about his article in the spring 2024 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. In “A Remarkable Vision of Her Father: The Many Uses… The post Abish’s Remarkable Vision of Her Father: A Conversation with Kyle Jepson appeared first on Dialogue Journal.…
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In The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism (SUNY Press, 2023), Adi Mahalel presents Yiddish and Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz (1852–1915) in a new radical light we've never seen him in before. Conceived in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the 2011/12 Occupy Wall Street movement and social protests in Israel/Palestine, an…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a German Jewish businessman who comes to Reb Yishochor DovBer of Radoshitz (known also as the Saba Kadisha) for a blessing to heal his son who has been deaf since birth and the second about Rabbi Yaakova Landa, a close Chassid of the Rebbe Rashab who asks the rebbe for an unual request.If you…
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Our newest Kosher Money episode is the incredible, gripping story of Yankel Meislin, a boy from Long Island whose past involves drug dealing, gangs and hundreds of thousands of dollars of hidden cash. Yankel's jaw-dropping tale is a powerful reminder that true success isn't just about money but living a life with real values. His transition into a …
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Joseph Kaplan is perhaps the most prolific writer anywhere on topics relating to Modern Orthodoxy. He has written hundreds of articles in The Baltimore Jewish Times, The Jewish Week, Edah Journal, Sh’ma Magazine, New Jersey Jewish Standard, and the Times of Israel. He has written many letters-to-the editor of many publications including 19 that wer…
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Come join Lori on an exploration of Mosiah for our only May Gospel Study! Lori Thompson Forsyth has had a long and somewhat random history with the publishing industry. She was a typesetter at the Harvard Crimson… The post Deep diving into Mosiah: Gospel Study with Lori Thompson Forsyth appeared first on Dialogue Journal.…
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In this special episode of the Dialogue Journal podcast, we feature an intriguing installment from the “Face in Hat” podcast, part of the Dialogue Podcast Network. Hosted by Aaron Brewster and Eric W. Jepson, this… The post DPN Presents: Face in Hat: Women and Priesthood Part I appeared first on Dialogue Journal.…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a Jewish businessman falsely accused of stealing who comes to the Shpoler Zayde for a blessing not to have to go to jail and the second about the love Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe had for his wayward son.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://k…
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Jessica Pryce believed a career at Child Protective Services would be a rewarding way to help keep kids safe. What she learned on the job completely changed her mind, as the system itself kept getting closer and closer to home. Now she's a scholar of the system and works as a public advocate to help change it for the better. About the Guest Dr. Jes…
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In this episode of Dialogue Book Report, host Andrew Hall sits down with Nicole Wilkes Goldberg and Mattathias Singh to discuss their book Tales of the Chelm First Ward (BCC Press), co-authored with James Goldberg.… The post Folk Tales and First Wards: A Conversation with Nicole Wilkes Goldberg and Mattathias Singh appeared first on Dialogue Journa…
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Even as the war rages in Israel, American campuses have become a whole other front line. Anne and Shoshanna speak to two US college students about their experiences of antisemitism and anti-Zionism on campus, and marvel at the strength of these incredible young people. Music: "Misery" by The WhipsBy Anne Gordon and Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll
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Anti-Semitic or philo-Semitic? Backward or modern? Locally rooted or diasporic? “Polishness” is too often flattened to an oversimplified list of either-or propositions. But a critical look at the multiple, contradictory versions of “Polishness” circulating in the modern era helps us to make sense not only of Poland’s past and present, but of a whol…
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