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 126 episodes available.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.
See Sabbath Queen
Read The Book of Esther
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March 05, 2025 What's Up, Doc?
Rabbi Shira and Hanna read a letter from a listener who has been nagging her husband to go to the doctor for over a decade. What does Judaism say about being responsible for your partner? And are we commanded to be good patients?
Read more Maimonides on medicine
Read more on health care in Judaism
Read about the commandments to take care of yourself
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February 26, 2025 WTF, God?!
We hear from a listener who spent a lifetime looking for love, hoping to become a parent. Now, single, childless and in his 70s he is asking WTF, God!?
Read the Book of Job
Read more about fate in Judaism
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37min
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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How many episodes does Chutzpod! have?

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