Building on the theme of the previous episode, "The Eternal Optimist," the Jew Gone Zen podcast welcomes Masha Sokol, musician and Russian-Jewish immigrant (or should I more accurately say refugee?) for a candid conversation on the American-Jewish perspective and the Eastern-European Jewish perspective — where we overlap, as well as where we miss each other. 

We delve deeper into Tragic Optimism - a term coined from the book, "Man's Search for Meaning," by Victor Frankl - and how music and Judaism seamlessly intertwine with respect to finding meaning in one's suffering.