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 136 episodes available.

Chutzpod! episodes:

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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1h 13min
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.
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1h 18min
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].
Listen to Frank Foer's previous Chutzpod conversation
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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.
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1h 6min
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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35min
May 21, 2025 Eww Self-Care
Beyond face masks and candles is there such a thing as “Jewish Self-Care”? Rabbi Shira and Hanna admit they are allergic to the lavender-scented concept and respond to a listener who wants to know more about Judaism’s notion of taking care of oneself.
Read the story about surviving in the desert.
Read the story about bathing while mourning
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39min
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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How many episodes does Chutzpod! have?

The podcast currently has 136 episodes available.

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