An eye-opening 1977 Yiddish book of female socialization #1
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/qUDGHnwTUPwFollow along with the pdf of the story here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JCIYkr489nAvNDZQapUJ9UzTdmeCpt-8/view?usp=sharing Let me read t...
13 Jan 34min
The original dissidents of Kiryas Joel | Michael Sussman
Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/jcz0xmkm10sThe Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel’s early days in the 1970s and 80s were anything but quiet. They were marked by infighting, lawsuits, dissid...
11 Jan 1h 17min
The oral histories of Bukharian Jews | Abe and Mazal
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/koTlTNYXoxIThis video is the extended sit-down conversation from my visit with the Bukharyan Jewish community in Forest Hills, Queens. In this segment, Abe...
4 Jan 1h 7min
My most candid conversation yet | On the Avrum Rosenzweig show
Video version here:https://youtu.be/1j7yKcjT4K8Follow Avrum's wonderful podcast here:https://www.youtube.com/@avrumrosensweigshowFollow Frieda on Youtube here:https://www.youtube.com/friedavizelbrookl...
24 Des 20251h
Laughing through cancer | Leah Forster
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/bY7w9icDKgULeah Forster is, as they say in the Hasidic community, “one in a million.” She’s funny, she sings, she’s creative, and she’s been on a spiritual...
7 Des 20251h 21min
Bonus, livestream: Why I posted and then pulled the video of the bride dancing
video link: https://youtube.com/live/OjxrGU4AjbcBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-frieda-vizel-podcast--5824414/support.
7 Des 202538min
Bonus, livestream: We Had Never Touched. Then Came Our Wedding Night. | Rachel Elitzur Opdoc discussion
Video link: https://youtube.com/live/8IEgx00P7OEA livestream about the NYT op doc about the Wedding Night for Orthodox Jewish couples. Watch the opdoc here:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/u...
6 Des 202529min
Jewish law on abortion and inferitily | Pt 2 R' Ysoscher Katz
Link to video of this interview: https://youtu.be/qMKonpTHj24A candid discussion about Orthodox Judaism and its views on abortion, infertility and loss of unborn life.This discussion is Part 2 of a tw...
30 Nov 20251h
