Rob Kutner on Writing for The Daily Show, Conan, and How Comedy and Judaism Overlap
Rob Kutner’s new irreverent book on Jewish history, The Jews: 5000 Years and Counting covers every major moment in Jewish history from Adam and Eve to Tuesday’s rerun of Seinfeld. This book will make ...
25 Mars 202541min
Allegra Goodman on Making the Exotic Familiar, and Finding the Modern in Ancient Words
Isola is inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine, and is the timeless story of a woman fighting for survival. Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and ...
18 Mars 202546min
Introducing Chutzpod!
Today, we’re excited to introduce you to Chutzpod, a podcast that offers frank and wide-ranging conversations on how to build a good life. Each week on Chutzpod, Rabbi Shira Stutman and co-host Hanna...
25 Feb 202540min
We'd love to hear your feedback!
We just finished our very first season of The Five Books! While we're preparing Season 2, we'd love to hear what you thought of our show. You can email us at team@fivebookspod.org. We will be back o...
20 Feb 20251min
Tova Mirvis on Community, Belonging, and Forgiveness
We Would Never is a riveting literary page-turner that maps the extremes to which a family will go in order to protect their own. No one appears more surprised than Hailey Gelman when she comes under...
11 Feb 202548min
Bonny Reichert on Food, Fear, and Finding Beauty
Bonny Reichert avoided everything to do with the Holocaust. The journalist had grown up hearing stories about her father’s near-starvation and ultimate survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau, but she never im...
4 Feb 202541min
Jessica Elisheva Emerson on Belief, Identity, and Women’s Desire
Olive Days is a novel about Rina Kirsch, a young mother and Modern Orthodox Jew in Los Angeles. But a contradiction burns at her center: Rina is an atheist. She is also stymied in her life and marriag...
28 Jan 202541min
Elyssa Friedland on Being a First Generation American and Why Representation in Books Matters
After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy lives will transform into sleek, storybook perfection–but they couldn’t be more wrong. The Jacobson ch...
21 Jan 202535min
