When one half of a town turns on the other | Interview with Director Igor Golyak
*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 director Igor Goylak about a powerful production titled...
8 Sep 202441min
What life is like for a Hasidic lady in the Catskills today | With comedian Leah Forster
For YouTube version see here: https://youtu.be/DQgG_PzxazgBaily is a character of a Hasidic woman who spends her summers in the bungalow colonies in upstate New York. In this episode, she shares the t...
4 Aug 202458min
A Bungalow Colony for Survivors I In Conversation with Director Andrew Jacobs
Andrew Jacobs directed the beautiful documentary 'Four Seasons Lodge' about holocaust survivors who spent every summer in the Catskills in a bungalow colony, connecting and loving life. The documentar...
21 Jul 202453min
He returned to live in the most insular Israeli enclave after leaving it | Tuvia Tenonbom Interview
Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/311WBTY7mrsTuvia Tenonbom is a character! He grew up in the Haredi enclave of Bnei Brak, which I've introduced you to in another video. He left the fo...
30 Jun 20241h 17min
"No one had a grandfather" | Gita recounts the Hasidic community after the holocaust
Video interview: https://youtu.be/2saQ0LEwZXQGita Katz is a larger-than-life character. I got to know her through Pearl, the famous Hasidic woman whom I have had the honor of having on this program be...
16 Jun 202454min
"We hid the piano from my Hasidic father" | The Singer Riki Rose shares her story
For the video version of this segment, click here: https://youtu.be/jiE9cTn6Yi0Riki Rose grew up in Hasidic Williamsburg, in a very conservative family. From when she was young, she had that star cele...
2 Jun 20241h 36min
Yiddish versus Hebrew the battle of two Jewish languages | In Conversation with Eddy Portnoy
Video version of this segment: https://youtu.be/tq8y3KkAWTkAs many of you know, my first language is Yiddish. It is the language of the Satmar Hasidic community I come from. The story of why I grew up...
8 Mai 20241h 18min
Why do we love to talk about Cults? | In Conversation with Guinevere Turner
For the video version of this discussion, see here: https://youtu.be/S2LMqtNjg6cThe Hasidic community has been the subject of great, lurid fascination. People love to hear the stories of its unusual c...
6 Apr 20241h 20min
