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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February 19, 2025 Should You Give Your Kid a Super Jewy Name?
Rabbi Shira Stutman and Hanna Rosin are back with new episodes for Season 5 of Chutzpod. They kick things off by answering a question from a listener named Moshe. His mother insisted he receive a “super Jewy name,” but what does Judaism say about this? What makes a name Jewish? And can we just name our kids Tom, Dick or Harry?
Read about Sarah naming Isaac
Read about Leah naming her children
Read about the Jewish concept of three names
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February 05, 2025 Coming Soon: Chutzpod Season 5
Chutzpod is coming back with new episodes and new real-life questions February 19th! Rabbi Shira and Hanna will answer questions about "super-Jewy" names, Purim for grown-ups and WTF, God!? Subscribe to automatically get all new episodes.
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January 22, 2025 All By Myself (Revisited)
We'll be back with new episodes soon! But in the meantime, please enjoy this episode from last season. And keep your new questions coming! Email [email protected] if you need advice from Rabbi Shira and Hanna.
After her wife of more than two decades passed suddenly, our listener is struggling how to spend time by herself again, and how to tell her wonderful, well-meaning community to give her space.
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34min
January 15, 2025 Long Held Secrets (Revisted)
If your New Year's Resolution involves coming clean, this one's for you.
There's something titillating about secrets in Judaism, but should we have them? Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a listener who wants to unburden a big secret with her father.
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January 08, 2025 Not Enough Townies (Revisted)
A favorite from the archive!
Comedian, podcaster and “Subculture Vulture” Moshe Kasher joins Rabbi Shira and Hanna to help a listener pull (or not pull) a geographic.
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January 01, 2025 Introducing The Five Books
Today, we’re sharing a special episode from our friends at The Five Books. Join host Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen as she speaks with Rabbi Benjamin Resnick about his debut novel, Next Stop, a work of speculative fiction that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through the lens of one family. He also discusses how the literature that’s meant the most to him throughout his life has also influenced his own work.
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December 25, 2024 A Jewish Santa?! (Revisited)
In between the movie and Chinese food, enjoy one of our favorite recent episodes.
Is a Jewish Santa kosher? Rabbi Shira & Hanna Rosin ponder the ethics of Christmas cosplay in this very merry episode.
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December 18, 2024 Spoiled Rotten (Revisited)
As you're buying gift after gift for Hannukah, enjoy this gem from our archives.
What to do when you want to teach your children gratitude, humility and the value of a dollar, but your mother’s “greatest joy in life” is spoiling them rotten. Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk about money myths, values and honoring thy father and mother.
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December 04, 2024 Grandma’s Dirty Money (Revisited)
It’s the season of giving, so we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes from the archive. We’ll be back answering new questions soon. So please send them to [email protected]
What happens if you receive an unexpected inheritance from a person you’ve cut out of your life? Should you keep it? Give it away to charity? Join Rabbi Shira and Hanna as they balance the rules of Torah with the financial realities of life.
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November 27, 2024 The Amen Effect (Revisted)
We are thankful for YOU! Enjoy this recent episode with gratitude. And if you're thankful for Chutzpod please consider making a donation to support the show.
Rabbi Shira and Hanna are joined by Rabbi Sharon Brous to talk about what she calls the “The Amen Effect” – what it means to be heard and seen during times of joy and grief and how a deeper connection to the Jewish community can actually help us cross tribal lines. Rabbi Brous is the founder of IKAR, an influential progressive Jewish congregation in Los Angeles and the author of The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World.
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