The Rebbitzen reveals her identity | Danielle Jacobs
Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/UZTQRkr-rIsLong before social media became what it is today, the internet met Rebbetzin Rivka Leah Zelwig—a charmingly extreme ultra-Orthodox rebbetzi...
22 Jun 20251h 21min
Why I left activism for Hasidic education | Naftuli Moster
Link to video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/IRTvj1_4_14In this interview, Naftuli Moster reflects on his years as the face of a controversial campaign to reform secular education in Hasi...
15 Jun 20251h 10min
Workout culture coming to the Ultra Orthodox world | Shmilly Feldman
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/XYPuTNOry3UWhen I was Hasidic, dieting and brisk walking were part of life—but the gym? Muscle-building? Weight training? That was unheard of. Today, a ...
8 Jun 202556min
What it's like to grow up in Kiryas Joel | An essay by Frieda Vizel
Video version of this posting: https://youtu.be/uHu_17N9GdEI grew up in a very special place: the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel. It was beautiful and painful all at once. I don't always talk about my...
25 Mai 202512min
Are Jews allowed to fight? | a controversial discussion with anti-Zionist Hasidic woman Pearl
Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/NXpO0THnx3gA woman who believes that Jews are prohibited by the Torah to fight, to have an army and nation, shares her theology. --- Since I did my first...
18 Mai 20251h 18min
Living on the border and creating the hit TV show Shtisel | Yehonatan Indursky
Video format of this interview: https://youtu.be/lzVUnyxpcEEThe most beautiful media content created about the Hasidic community is, arguably, the Israeli hit TV show Shtisel. It was co-created by Yeh...
4 Mai 20251h 18min
What it was like to grow up Amish | Martha Ross
Link to video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/teadpfXWCO4Martha Ross grew up Old Order Amish in Middlefield Ohio, left it, and now does YouTube videos about it on the channel @AmishTransf...
27 Apr 20251h 17min
Reading the Yiddish children's version of the Book of Exodus
Link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/MnFddZtaWdQBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-frieda-vizel-podcast--5824414/support.
15 Apr 202531min
