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
Episode 27 - The Golden Path: A R' Moshe Hauer zt"l Tribute
On Shmini Atzeret/Simchat Torah 5786/2025, the Jewish world lost a titanic leader, Rabbi Moshe Hauer, a man who modeled Jewish living and leadership in an extraordinary manner.Rabbi Hauer was the Exec...
25 Des 20251h 1min
Episode 26 - "Can the Chareidi Workforce Grow?" With Yitzik Crombie
Yitzik (pronounced "Itzkik") Crombie is a long-time tech entrepreneur who founded Mego, a training program aimed at integrating into the higher-level Israeli workforce. The work is supported through t...
9 Des 20251h 17min
Episode 25 - "My Month in Basic Training" with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer
Iyun Institute founder and director Rabbi Yehoshua Pfefferrecently “put his body where his pen is,” enlisting in the IDF in its “Shlav Bet” program within the Homefront Command. Fresh off a month-long...
24 Nov 202543min
Episode 24 - "Chabad on Zionism" With Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie
Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie is a longtime Chabad Shaliach (emissary), co-director of the North County Chabad Center in Orange County, California. Author of the book Secret of Chabad, he has recently released...
12 Nov 20251h 5min
Episode 23 - What is Charedi Ideology? With Combat Physician and Author Dr. Yechiel Reit
Dr. Yechiel Reit is an American-born emergency medicine doctor, an IDF reserve combat physician and the author of "Applied Monotheism: The Chareidi Response to Modernity."In our wide-ranging conversat...
7 Sep 20251h 31min
Episode 22 - The Charedi Parties, with The Times of Israel's Sam Sokol
Sam Sokol is a veteran journalist, currently the Knesset Affairs correspondent at the Times of Israel. In this episode, we explore his journalistic background, and his unique perspective on the chared...
12 Aug 20251h 3min
