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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September 16, 2026 Rabbi Shira’s Yom Kippur Sermon: “See It”
Even if you can’t make it to Aspen you can hear Rabbi Shira’s sermon for Yom Kippur this year. Drawing on her own experience visiting the Langa Township in Cape Town, South Africa, the Yom Kippur Haftarah reading and some Ursula LeGuin, Shira urges us all to “shrink the frame” to a human-sized small town of responsibility, practice Teshuvah and reject willful blindness.
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Read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Read the Yom Kippur Haftarah reading
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September 09, 2026 Misery Loves Company (Even on Rosh Hashanah)
Chutzpod is back to usher everyone into the New Year! And as we approach 5787, a listener wonders how to show up authentically, even if that means bringing the mood down. Rabbi Shira and Hanna wonder why we feel pressure to have a “happy” new year and encourage everyone not to bring the Jewish equivalent of a sanitized Christmas letter to their high holiday celebrations.
Read This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared
Read about the Unetanah Tokef
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September 02, 2026 The Long Arc: 250 Years of Jews and America
Listen to this special bonus episode recorded live at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 12, 2026.
As America approaches 250 years, this conversation looks at the enduring relationship between Jewish life and the American experiment. Through historical reflection and contemporary insight, speakers will explore how Jewish tradition and democratic ideals have shaped one another—and what that long story asks of us now.
This conversation features Rabbi Sharon Brous, Founder and Senior Rabbi of IKAR, Eric Cohen, President and CEO of Tikvah, and moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic.
Chutzpod will be back with new episodes September 9th! Need advice from Hanna and Shira? Submit your questions to [email protected]. And make sure you're subscribed.
Listen to Rabbi Brous on Chutzpod!
More AJC conversations
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August 26, 2026 Coming Soon...Chutzpod Season 8!
Chutzpod is coming back with new episodes and new real-life questions September 9th!
Rabbi Shira and Hanna will talk about when to see a rabbi over a therapist, how to navigate a mixed-observance marriage and is believing in aliens Jewish??
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April 22, 2026 A Whole Lotta Leviticus: Our Traditional (Untraditional) Torah Study for Season 7
In our Season 7 finale, Hanna again poses as a yeshiva bocher. Shira takes her through a very special double Torah portion: Achrei Mot-Kedoshim Leviticus 16:1–20:27. She talks about why Leviticus is such a grab bag of rules and laws with seemingly no real narrative order, some of the more controversial laws on sex, homosexuality and female impurity and how to view this part of the Torah as a guide to holiness in daily life, especially in a contemporary world that is often too cruel.
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April 15, 2026 Ol' Dirty Money
What does Judaism say about accepting “dirty” money? A listener has been watching the online debate about how her alma mater should handle money from a prominent donor associated with Jeffery Epstein. She asks how does Jewish tradition handle this moral predicament? And at what point are institutions complicit spiritually and ethically when they accept tainted funds?
Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk about when tzedakah becomes murky and how to be accountable morally and practically.
Listen to Responsa Radio’s “Can Nonprofits Accept Money from Crooks?”
Read about accepting and using stolen money
Read about using a stolen lulav
Read Rabbi Sharon Brous’ sermon on the stolen beam
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April 08, 2026 Bubbemeises
Is covering your mirrors during shiva a superstition or Jewish law? What about breaking the glass at a wedding? Tashlich?
Rabbi Shira and Hanna discuss the ideas of Jewish luck and bad luck and where they fit into law and tradition. And they welcome a VERY special guest – Hanna’s mother Miriam. Her sister has had a string of bad accidents and she wants to know if changing her mezuzah will ward off future health scares.
Read more on Jewish superstitions
Mezuzah 101
Check your mezuzah
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April 01, 2026 Practically Kosher
Is it Kosher to question Kashrut?
A listener writes, “Why do Jews have Kosher rules? And how would you suggest a previously unobservant Jew approach Kashrut, if at all?”
Rabbi Shira admits that teaching the laws of kashrut is one of the hardest things she has to do as a rabbi. She does her best to make sense of it all and gives her best pitch for a mindfulness-based Jewish eating practice.
FAQ about Kosher laws
Read more about keeping Kosher in a non-Kosher world
Read Maimonides' commentary on the laws of Kashrut
Grow and Behold
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March 25, 2026 A Sober Seder
Wine is central to Jewish ritual, but what if drinking isn’t safe for you? A listener in recovery dreads what used to be his favorite holiday, Passover. He writes that he dreads all the wine talk and dreads having to explain why he's opting out. He asks, "Can I skip the Seder this year?"
Rabbi Shira and Hanna are joined by Rabbi Sue Reinhold of the Torah of Recovery to explore why wine matters, how Judaism understands both joy and danger in drinking, the stigma around addiction in Jewish communities and practical ways to participate, or not.
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Read about addiction in the Torah
Read about free will in the Torah, Free Will, by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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March 18, 2026 Can’t We Just Have a Happy Passover?
With the world feeling particularly heavy, Rabbi Shira and Hanna wonder if, in addition to moments of anger and resistance, they can find a way to bring joy into this year’s Passover Seder. They’re joined by Rav Jericho Vincent, the founding rabbi of Temple of the Stranger, a growing mystical Jewish community in Brooklyn, NY.
Listen to Jericho’s podcast Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness
Read Jericho’s substack
Read Jericho’s scholarship on the Torah of Miriam
Watch Debbie Friedman's "Miriam's Song" arranged/produced by Daniel Raijman
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How many episodes does Chutzpod! have?

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