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Hasidic Judaism Explored

By: Frieda Vizel
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  • Welcome to in-depth conversations on Hasidism, Judaism, NYC, culture, education, religion and more!

    This podcast is hosted by popular Youtuber Frieda Vizel, who has been studying the Hasidic community for more than ten years.

    This is the podcast version of the video conversations which are also published on Youtube. Please reach out with feedback.

    Here's the youtube channel if you prefer to see the host and guests! :)
    Frieda Vizel
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Episodes
  • Yiddish versus Hebrew the battle of two Jewish languages | In Conversation with Eddy Portnoy

    Yiddish versus Hebrew the battle of two Jewish languages | In Conversation with Eddy Portnoy
    May 8 2024
    Video version of this segment: https://youtu.be/tq8y3KkAWTk

    As many of you know, my first language is Yiddish. It is the language of the Satmar Hasidic community I come from. The story of why I grew up speaking Yiddish, and not Hebrew, is intimately tied to the story of the birth of Israel, Zionism and Jewish language. And so, today I want to delve into the history of how two Jewish languages came to represent contrasting Jewish ideologies.

    I was inspired to do this segment after visiting the wonderful YIVO exhibit in Manhattan titled: 'PALESTINIAN YIDDISH: A LOOK AT YIDDISH IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL BEFORE 1948'
    Link: https://cjh.org/visit/exhibit-info/palestinian-yiddish
    Address: 15 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011

    About my guest Eddy Portnoy, the curator of the exhibition: Eddy Portnoy is an expert on Jewish popular culture. Portnoy earned an MA in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University and a PhD in Jewish History from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He currently holds the position of Senior Researcher and Exhibition Curator at YIVO.

    You can follow Eddy on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/eddyportnoy
    You can see his book Bad Rabbi on Amazon here: https://a.co/d/cLuRcup
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Why do we love to talk about Cults? | In Conversation with Guinevere Turner

    Why do we love to talk about Cults? | In Conversation with Guinevere Turner
    Apr 6 2024
    For the video version of this discussion, see here: https://youtu.be/S2LMqtNjg6c

    The Hasidic community has been the subject of great, lurid fascination. People love to hear the stories of its unusual customs and darker sides. I see this fascination as part of a larger fascination with subcultures and cults. For instance, Youtube is full of channels that tell ex-Hasidic, ex-Mormon, ex-Amish and ex-Cult stories and these videos draw hundreds of thousands of views.

    Guinevere Turner grew up in a cult. In the Lyman Family cult. What's unique about her is that she doesn't give the audience the lurid story they want. She also has written about how cults are talked about in the larger society. Her essay in the New Yorker, 'My Childhood in a Cult', influenced my own writing, 'Is the Hasidic Community A Cult?'


    In this episode, Guinevere joins me to discuss our experiences as women with life stories that draw so much fascination. We talk about why we think the world wants our stories, and why we might not want to give them up. We discuss the Lyman family cult and other groups that are perhaps communes, perhaps cults. A discussion that touches the tip of the iceberg!
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • The Chained Wife / the Jewish Aguna Crisis | In Conversation with Keshet Starr

    The Chained Wife / the Jewish Aguna Crisis | In Conversation with Keshet Starr
    Mar 17 2024
    Video version of this segment here: https://youtu.be/_H1hjrS2MLo

    A chained wife is a woman who is chained to a man in marriage, even after the relationship ends. This can happen in Jewish marriages when one partner refuses to give or accept the Get, the religious divorce. Malky is a Hasidic woman in Kiryas Joel who has been a chained wife for 4 years. In recent weeks the activist Flatbush Girl has spearheaded a campaign to pressure Malky’s husband to give a Get, by protesting in the strict and insular village of Kiryas Joel, by entering synagogues, and most controversially, by calling for a sex strike.

    In this segment, I talk to Keshet Starr, the CEO of the organization ORA, or Organization for the Resolution of Agunot. We talk about how the problem of chained wives comes to happen, how these problems are unique in insular communities, how it impacts the children, the types of pressures that are applied, and more.

    Some links related to this segment: ORA’s website: https://www.getora.org ORA’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oraagunot/ Keshet Starr’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keshetstarr/ Flatbush Girl (Adina Miles)’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flatbushgirl/ Thanks for watching!
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    1 hr and 16 mins
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