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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October 08, 2025 Shopping for Shuls
What should you look for when shul shopping besides “that feeling”? How do you know a synagogue is right for you? And what role should a temple play in our modern lives? As we celebrate Sukkot and Simchat Torah, Rabbi Shira and Hanna offer one congregation consumer their advice.
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October 01, 2025 "As a Jew" on Yom Kippur with Sarah Hurwitz
Rabbi Shira and Hanna welcome former White House speechwriter and author Sarah Hurwitz for a conversation about her latest book As a Jew, an urgent exploration of how antisemitism has shaped Jewish identity, the complexities of modern Jewish life, and what lessons Sarah learned from being a hospital chaplain.
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September 24, 2025 Rabbi Shira's High Holiday Sermon
Shana Tova Chutzsquad! Welcome 5786 with Rabbi Shira’s annual high holiday message.
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September 17, 2025 A Happy (And Hungry) New Year with Jake Cohen
We're back with new episodes for the new year!
A self-professed “nice Jewish boy from New York City,” Jake Cohen is the New York Times bestselling author of Jew-ish and I Could Nosh, star of A&E’s Jake Makes It Easy. He talks about his new book Dinner Party Animal, why Jews are so obsessed with food and helps us all with our food and entertaining questions.
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September 10, 2025 Aspen Jewish Conversations: How Big Should the Tent Be?
Listen to a special live event held at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 13, 2025.
In a time of deep division, what does it really mean to belong to the Jewish people? And how do we stay in community when our beliefs, priorities, and red lines conflict? This session draws on the idea of the “big tent” as both a moral aspiration and a real-world challenge, exploring how we navigate differences while maintaining a sense of Jewish peoplehood.
This conversation features Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, Shalom Hartman Institute President Yehuda Kurtzer, and the Executive Director of the Harvard Hillel Jason Rubenstein.
Chutzpod will be back with new episodes September 17th! Need advice from Hanna and Shira? Submit your questions to [email protected].
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September 03, 2025 Aspen Jewish Conversations: Can We Tell a New Jewish Story?
Listen to a special live event held at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 13, 2025.
The Jewish experience has always been bigger than survival. Yet too often, the public stories we tell center on trauma and loss. This session explores how we might reclaim stories of resilience, creativity, and contribution, and how new narratives could help us build a future rooted in strength.
This conversation features Dasi Fruchter, Founder & Spiritual Leader of the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, Mark Oppenheimer, Creator & Host of Unorthodox podcast and Dara Horn, Author and Founder & President of Mosaic Persuasion.
Chutzpod will be back with new episodes September 17th! Need advice from Hanna and Shira? Submit your questions to [email protected].
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August 28, 2025 Aspen Jewish Conversations: What’s the Next Golden Age for American Jews?
Listen to a special live event held at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 6, 2025.
For decades, American Jews enjoyed unprecedented safety, success, and cultural influence. But beneath that prosperity, many became disconnected from Jewish tradition and meaning. Was that truly a golden age, or just the foundation for what could come next? This session reckons with the story of Jewish life in America and asks what a deeper, more meaningful era might look like.
This conversation features The Atlantic's Franklin Foer, spiritual leader and scholar Mijal Bitton, and Senior Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
Chutzpod will be back with new episodes September 17th! Need advice from Hanna and Shira? Submit your questions to [email protected].
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August 27, 2025 Coming Soon: Chutzpod Season 6
Chutzpod is coming back with new episodes and new real-life questions September 17th! Rabbi Shira and Hanna will answer questions about "shul shopping," tattoo taboos and rabbis using AI. Plus they talk to Jewish foodie Jake Cohen and author and White House speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz. Subscribe to automatically get all new episodes.
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August 20, 2025 Aspen Jewish Conversations: Why Do Jewish Ideas Matter?
Listen to a special live event held at Aspen Jewish Congregation on July 30, 2025.
Jewish ideas offer a framework for thinking deeply and living purposefully. But in a world flooded with content and opinion, what does Judaism offer that is distinctive and worth sustaining? This opening session explores what gives Jewish ideas their enduring relevance and why they’re worth learning from and living by today.
This conversation features speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz, author of Here All Along and As a Jew, New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens, and Wexner Foundation President Rabbi B. Elka Abrahamson.
Chutzpod will be back with new episodes September 17th! Need advice from Hanna and Shira? Submit your questions to [email protected].
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May 28, 2025 Torah Study on Shavuot
Back by popular demand, Rabbi Shira and Hanna cap off this season with a Shavuot celebration and Torah study Back by popular demand, Rabbi Shira and Hanna cap off this season with a Shavuot celebration and Torah study. They help a young listeners preparing for his Bar Mitzvah and lead us us through Sh’lach L’cha, which Rabbi Shira loves because it’s one of the stories that has the most to teach us about our lived experience today.
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