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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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(24) Interview with an Orthodox therapist, Dr. Chaya Lieba Kobernick
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Dr. Chaya Lieba Kobernick is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Founder and Director of The CBT/DBY Center (https://www.thecbtdbtcenter.com/ … email DrK@TheCBTDBTCenter.com), with clientele in both Israel and the U.S. She received her doctorate at Long Island University, and also trained at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Northwell Health, an…
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Why Chareidim Refuse to Serve in Israel's Army
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(23) The Issues We Raise; the Questions We Ask … with Halachah Headlines Author and Podcaster Dovid Lichtenstein
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Dovid Lichtenstein is the founder and host of the Halacha Headlines podcast, an amazing and very popular podcast with a huge listenership that is indeed "The most listened to Torah Program in the world.” Halacha Headlines delves into contemporary issues and current events through the lens of Torah and Halacha (Jewish law). Each episode features dis…
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(22) Prolific Commentator Joseph Kaplan … Modern Orthodox and Feminist
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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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(21) Rabbi Yehuda Albin … Melding Torah Teaching and Personal Coaching
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Rabbi Yehuda Albin grew up as a Reform Jew in Scarsdale, NY. He was exposed to Judaism and his father ran several secular Jewish camps for youth. He became religious in Jerusalem, after graduating Bowdoin College with the highest honors. Then he studied the Torah and the Talmud for nearly a decade in Jerusalem, before returning to the states, and m…
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(20)Jacob Kornbluh – Senior Political Reporter at The Forward; and Member of the Brooklyn Hasidic Community
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Jacob Kornbluh is the senior political reporter for the Forward. Kornbluh, a member of the Hasidic community in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, covers politics with a Jewish angle and regularly interviews government officials, political commentators and security experts on issues that matter to the broader Jewish American community. He p…
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QA: How Zionists corrupted the Jewish survival instinct
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QA: A Talmid chacham who belives in nationalism: idol worshipper?
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QA: Is it Zionism or Kedushas Haaretz I feel in Israel?
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The Satmar Rav: What We Must Tell the Umos About Israel
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Intro to QA session for 1st-year Bais Medrash: Chazarah on the Yesodos of Zionism
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Vayechi - Why fathers bless their children only using Efraim and Menashe
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War in Gaza: 27-Minute Shmuze for Lakewood Mesivta Bochurim
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(19) Baruch Lytle – African-American Convert, Satmar Hasid, and Award-Winning Jewish World Journalist
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Baruch Lytle is an African American Orthodox Jew from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and he identifies as a Satmar Chasid. He describes his conversion to Judaism as the defining moment of his life and greatest accomplishment. He is also an award-winning journalist, having written nearly 200 articles for the largest Jewish newspaper in America, The Jewish …
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(18) A Conversation with Orthodox World Pundit… and “The Man in the Middle”… Michael Feldstein
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Michael Feldstein is a keen observer and commentator on all aspects of the Orthodox Jewish community, and his weekly columns in the Jewish Link newspaper draws an enthusiastic readership. His upcoming (January 2024) book, "Meet Me in the Middle," is a collection of 75 of his essays and, in this episode, we discuss five of them: • Prayer, Politics a…
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Aveiros against Hashem are Bain Adam l'chaveiro
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(17) Starting a Conversation: A Pioneering Survey of Those Who Have Left the Orthodox Community
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This episode is an exploration of a pioneering study of people who have left the Orthodox community, as we examing journeys, practices, beliefs, identity, community and relationships, across Chasidic, Yeshivish and Modern Orthodox segments of the population. In this episode, we review many highlights of this study, including: 1. Why People Leave Or…
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QA: How Zionism affects Bnei Torah today? (talk for Lakewood Mesivta boys)
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(16) Covid – Micro and Macro Experiences, with Rabbi Tuvia Brander and Dr. Daniel Staetsky
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In this episode, we first look at how Covid affected a shul and community, and we discuss with Rabbi Brander the creativity, innovations, and possible lasting changes that took place. We then discuss with a leading demographer the impact that Covid had on the Jewish community in terms of actual mortality and death statistics. While we are typically…
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How is it that big Talmidei Chachamim can have very bad Hashkafos
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What do we really celebrate on Lag Ba'Omer?
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Mofsim: How they work and how to make them, Part 2 of 2
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Mofsim: How they work and how to make them - Part 1 of 2
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(15) A Conversation with Journalist, Author, Podcast Host, Religious Explorer, Magician, Film Critic, and Albert Einstein Avatar – Benyamin Cohen
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In this episode, we speak with Benyamin Cohen, news director at The Forward, author of “My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith,” named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, “The Einstein Effect: How the World's Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds,” and a man of di…
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The Mateh Moshe is the Yesod of Krias Yam Suf (Inwood Kollel 5777)
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How Klall Yisroel Survives Anti-Torah Movements: (5774)
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(14) Fertility, Mortality, Life Expectancy, Changes in Self-Identification, and Orthodox Population Growth – with Demographic Expert Dr. Daniel Staetsky
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In this episode, we speak with the noted Jewish world demographer Dr. Daniel Staetsky about population trends, particularly in the Haredi world. Dr. Staetsky is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (London), and has published widely on Jewish, Israeli and European demography and social statistics. He has written many…
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Yichud Hashem: What we can prove about G-d (שנת תשנ"א)
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QA: Who is considered a "Baal Nefesh" in Halachah?
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Pesach - Why only on Pesach chayav adam liros es atzmo etc.?
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Pesach: Why the Torah treats the aino yodeah lishol like the Rasha
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Pesach: Why does the Ben HaRasha attack only on Pesach night?
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QA: Are parents mechuyav to tolerate misbehavior? And how to know if your chinuch is real.
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QA: History: The rasha who turned the term "kanoi" into an insult
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QA: Is there Hashgacha Pratis on Baalei Chaim?
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QA: "Jewish" Music Videos: What's wrong with 24-6?
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(13) The Stories of Those Who Have Left the Fold – with Naomi Seidman, Professor, Author and Host of the Heretic in the House Podcast.
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In this episode, we speak with Prof. Naomi Seidman about people leaving Orthodoxy and the related stories, experiences and misconceptions. She shares what she personally learned in leaving her Haredi community, as well as the insights of many others. We also draw upon the 2016 study “Starting a Conversation: A Pioneering Survey of Those Who Have Le…
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Purim: Machtzis HaShekel and Nahama D'Kisufa
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QA: Chizuk to a bochur always being put down by his Rebbeim
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QA: Should bochurim have opinions or just learn?
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