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 149 episodes available.

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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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28min
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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40min
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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35min
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.
More about Moshe Kasher
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39min
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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47min
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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28min
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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34min

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How many episodes does Chutzpod! have?

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