Chutzpod!

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Chutzpod! is a frank and wide-ranging conversation on how to build a good life, using real-life quandaries and millennia-old Jewish wisdom. Each week, Rabbi Shira Stutman and journalist Hanna Rosin

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The podcast currently has 129 episodes available.

Chutzpod! episodes:

May 14, 2025 Holy $#@%!
A listener tells us she loves the show – it’s funny, it’s wise (aww shucks), but oy such language! She says feh to the vulgar cursing and prompts Rabbi Shira and Hanna to wonder what Judaism says about “working blue.”
Read about Nivul Peh
Read about Derech Eretz
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39min
May 07, 2025 My Jewish Friend is a Murderer. Can We Stay In Touch?
A listener’s friend committed a heinous crime and is now in prison. She wonders if remaining friends and visiting him dishonors his victim’s memory. Tune in to hear Rabbi Shira and Hanna’s advice.
Breaking down teshuvah
Jewish Views on Forgiveness:
Are There Things That Can’t Be Forgiven?
A Prayer for Those Not Ready to Forgive, by Rabbi Jill Zimmerman
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41min
April 30, 2025 Rabbi Shira in Conversation with David Brooks
Rabbi Shira shares her live conversation with New York Times' Opinion columnist David Brooks.* And on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) she talks about the importance of voting in the World Zionist Congress.
*This event was hosted by Sixth & I, a center for arts, entertainment, ideas, and Jewish life in Washington DC.
Vote in the World Zionist Congress
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55min
April 23, 2025 I Never Taught My Kids About the Holocaust
On the eve of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Rabbi Shira asks a surprising question: Do we actually have to teach our kids about the Holocaust? (Spoiler Alert: She didn’t.)
She looks back at her own choices about Holocaust education and finds a way forward.

More resources for talking to your kids about the Holocaust and Antisemitism:
Guidelines for Teaching The Holocaust
Activities for Holocaust learning
Talking to Children About Antisemitism
A Very Brief Guide to Antisemitism
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41min
April 16, 2025 Bringing Your Gun to the Seder: Violence, Resistance and the Passover Story
As we celebrate Passover during the current climate, Rabbi Shira talks to Hanna about what Judaism says about violence, resistance and freedom. And they speak to a Jewish gun owner about his choice to protect himself.
More on preventing harm and stumbling blocks in the Torah
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43min
April 09, 2025 Not in a Happy Passover Mood
Hanna asks the questions this week as we prepare for Passover. How do we tell and interpret the Passover story when it feels like we’re firmly stuck at the beginning of our own contemporary plight? Do we have the opportunity to have perhaps the most authentic seder any of us have had in our lived experience? Rabbi Shira has tips and wisdom for you as you prepare your own seders.
Add to your own Haggadot
And go out and learn!
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41min
April 02, 2025 Judge Jewdy
Are you Jewish enough? Too Jewish? Why are we Jews so judgy of one another? Rabbi Shira and Hanna receive a letter from a listener whose embrace of Judaism as an adult is making her less religious mother bristle.
Read an example of Jewish judging in the Torah
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40min
March 26, 2025 Should I Join My Temple Board?
Ever wondered what an actual rabbi thinks about the temple board? What makes some temple communities work and others fail? Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a listener figure out whether or not to join her temple board.
Read more about Jewish responsibility to the community
Read more about Jewish leadership
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30min
March 19, 2025 The Jewish Way to a Good Life
Hanna talks to Rabbi Shira about her new book The Jewish Way to a Good Life. She distills thousands of years of Jewish wisdom into practical, time-tested strategies for living a more meaningful life and reminds us: You don’t have to be Jewish to do Jewish. And she tells us how.
Get Shira’s book!
See Shira in conversation with David Brooks
Read the story about crashing your rabbi's marital bed
Read more about Shabbat and rest
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37min
March 12, 2025 Purim for Grown-Ups
Rabbi Shira makes a passionate plea to reclaim the holiday of Purim away from just the kids. But what does Jewish debauchery even look like? And why does it give Hanna the ick?
Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk to “Sabbath Queen” Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, co-founder of LabShul, about his family story, drag and finding Jewish joy in dark times…even for us adults.
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41min

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How many episodes does Chutzpod! have?

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