Episode 35 - Is Violence the Answer? with R' Yehoshua Pfeffer
In this episode, we take a hard look at a growing crisis within the Torah world: what happens when a system built around the ideal of total Torah immersion leaves too many young men without genuine le...
17 Jun 43min
Episode 34 - Poverty and Identity in the Chareidi Community
Dr. Nechumie Yaffe is a Haredi scholar and lecturer at Tel Aviv University whose work focuses on Haredi sociology and the challenge of translating the lived experience of the ultra-Orthodox world to a...
27 Mai 58min
Episode 33 - Chareidi Women in Tech...in the IDF?!
Esti Salomon is the founder and CEO of Atida, a pioneering Israeli nonprofit creating new pathways for ultra-Orthodox women to serve in elite technological units within the IDF as civilian employees. ...
10 Mai 49min
Episode 31 - What is a "Kiddush Hashem" And Why Does it Matter? With Rabbi Shraga Freedman
Rabbi Shraga Freedman, a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, has dedicated himself to restoring the centrality of Kiddush Hashem as a defining value in Jewish life. Through the work of the Living Kiddush...
26 Mar 1h 5min
Episode 30 - "The Anthropology of Daas Torah" with Professor Benny Brown
SHOW NOTES: PROFESSOR BENNY BROWN Professor Benjamin (Benny) Brown is one of the foremost experts on charedi ideology and identity in the modern Israeli academy. He has published widely on a range of ...
17 Feb 1h 9min
Episode 29 - "When Ben Gurion Met the Chazon Ish" - With Rabbi Nathanial Helfgot
On November 19, 2025, Rabbi Nathaniel (“Nati”) Helfgot - a congregational rabbi and Judaics teacher at SAR in Riverdale - wrote an article at The Lehrhaus titled, “Ben Gurion and Hazon Ish: The Sequel...
29 Jan 55min
Episode 28 - "Chareidim on the Political Left" with Pnina Pfeuffer
We tend to assume that all chareidim sit on the political Right in Israel. This week’s interview with Pnina Pfeuffer interrogates that assumption. As a chareidi woman firmly stationed on the Israeli L...
14 Jan 1h 29min
