Episodes

  • What it was like to grow up Amish | Martha Ross

    What it was like to grow up Amish | Martha Ross
    Apr 27 2025
    Link to video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/teadpfXWCO4

    Martha Ross grew up Old Order Amish in Middlefield Ohio, left it, and now does YouTube videos about it on the channel @AmishTransformed . Please check out her fundraiser for her husband's much needed dental work here: https://gofund.me/d49b3276
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Reading the Yiddish children's version of the Book of Exodus

    Reading the Yiddish children's version of the Book of Exodus
    Apr 15 2025
    Link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/MnFddZtaWdQ
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    31 mins
  • Bonus: music video 'Mein Kind' referenced in my essay on the stories we tell

    Bonus: music video 'Mein Kind' referenced in my essay on the stories we tell
    Apr 6 2025
    This is the song to advertise the Tzohar organization, which I have referenced in the episode comparing the Netflix Unorthodox show to this song. Here is the video: https://youtu.be/78XBSSDdwjo?si=aXMAEQ4pOPnYhbwZ
    I am sharing the music since it's essentially and ad and it will help create a fuller resource/reference to my commentary
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    14 mins
  • Unorthodox vs the OTHER story | How we talk about people who leave insular societies

    Unorthodox vs the OTHER story | How we talk about people who leave insular societies
    Apr 6 2025
    Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/78XBSSDdwjo

    The stories we tell affect the ways we process events around us. How we make sense of things like someone's departure from a community. Every society has their own stories; their own mythologies, their own tropes.

    In this video, I do an analysis of two different societies and their tropes, by comparing the Netflix show Unorthodox with the music video "Mein Kind, Eiku". Please leave a comment with your thoughts.

    Filmed by Ryan Scharfenberg / https://www.instagram.com/mmm_moire/

    Edited by Lee Korak / @LeeKorak Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mayo.nap?igsh=ZXp4bm8zZTJ2aXVr
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    28 mins
  • A visually impaired Hasidic woman tells her story | Rochel Bodek

    A visually impaired Hasidic woman tells her story | Rochel Bodek
    Mar 23 2025
    Video link: https://youtu.be/28lP8j8swA0

    Please support Rochel Yenty Bodek's wonderful work by donating: https://insightbeyondeyesight.org/donate Rochel Yenty Bodek is a Hasidic woman who lost her sight as a young woman due to a genetic condition. She has faced tremendous challenges as a wife and mother in the Hasidic community and has risen to the challenge with tremendous resilience. In this interview she talks with a lot of candor about the challenges and strengths of the Hasidic community and how she approaches her disability in this realm.

    If you appreciate my work and think it's important, please consider financially supporting it by becoming a channel member or sending a donation. It takes a team of multiple people to make this channel run and your support means so much.
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    59 mins
  • A historian's warning | Anna Shternshis

    A historian's warning | Anna Shternshis
    Mar 16 2025
    Link to video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/hKN0_75EuqE

    Anna Shternshis is a Professor of Yiddish studies and the director of the department of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto and the author of "Soviet and Kosher", "When Sonia Met Boris" and the forthcoming "Jews in the soviet union: post war life, hopes and fears". In this interview we talk about the fascinating history of the Jews of the Soviet Union, the oral histories Anna collected from Yiddish (and non-Yiddish) speakers born before 1929, and the Yiddish songs she recovered from during the holocaust.

    Some links for Anna Shternshis here:
    Soviet and Kosher: https://amzn.to/4irTnT6
    When Sonia Met Boris: https://amzn.to/4bxypzC
    Her project to set holocaust songs to lyrics, titled Yiddish Glory: https://www.yiddishglory.com/
    Link to the University of Toronto: https://german.utoronto.ca/anna-shternshis/
    Twitter: https://x.com/shternsh
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • A revolution in Yiddish arts & theater by Hasidim | Ari Abromowitz

    A revolution in Yiddish arts & theater by Hasidim | Ari Abromowitz
    Mar 9 2025
    Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/pVfY5wZlPec

    There's a whole emerging world of Hasidic theater, acted by men, and including a cast and stories of men only. This has been a tiny element of the Hasidic world for years - it definitely wasn't a viable career for anyone until recently. In recent years, the Hasidic theater scene has exploded. So much talent is coming to the fore. It was so much my pleasure to talk to Ari (Arye) Abromowitz, who is a veteran of this scene, who has been there from the beginning of this "revolution" and has been in many ways its face as he acted in many productions. I learned so much about this arts scene from Ari and this was just the tip of the iceberg.

    Link to Ari and Friends: https://mostlymusic.com/products/ari-friends-season-1-episode-1-video
    Edited by Lee Korak / https://leekorak.site/
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    55 mins
  • I grew up in Kiryas Joel and embraced plant medicine

    I grew up in Kiryas Joel and embraced plant medicine
    Feb 23 2025
    Video version of this interview here: https://youtu.be/kMxyRkjljm8?si=hcjjD0_-izvquKxB

    Today's interview is about psychedelics, Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, and one extraordinary woman's journey! Please join me for the interview with Bruchy Moskovics. Bruchy was raised in the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel. Her story is like no one's I've ever heard, and the way she tells it will take you to another world -- a world of faith, thoughtfulness, and living connected with something very alive within. Bruchy is now a child therapist and also does post-psychedelic integrative therapy, and her work often addresses a Yiddish-speaking crowd. In this interview she both shares her story and also explains what psychedelic therapy is, and how it's coming to play a role in the contemporary Hasidic community.

    Bruchy's Instagram account is: https://www.instagram.com/bruchymoskovics/
    Thumbnail photo credit of Hasidic man smoking: Abe Kugielsky - https://www.instagram.com/hasidiminusa/
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    1 hr and 10 mins
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