Chutzpod!

By Chutzpod!Religion & Spirituality Judaism

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Chutzpod! episodes

November 20, 2024 Friendship FOMO (Revisited)
Friendsgiving plans got you down? Enjoy one of our favorite recent episodes...
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Do you suffer from Friendship FOMO? Heartburn, fatigue, painful stabs of jealousy while looking at Instagram? Rabbi Shira and Hanna will provide some relief. Podcast host and producer Lauren Ober writes in. And Shira lets out her inner mean girl.
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43 min
November 06, 2024 Calling Dibs
Saving seats at services is almost as old as Judaism itself. But should you do it?
A newly converted Jewish listener bristles at this convention and wonders if it’s ok to make her friends and family fend for themselves if they can’t make it on time.
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43 min
October 30, 2024 Jewish Wedding: The Sequel
Should second weddings be modest? Or is it kosher to go full bridezilla?
A listener asks for advice on how to deal with her sister’s seemingly over-the-top requests for her second Jewish wedding.
2nd weddings in the Torah:
Abraham and Ketura
Boaz and Ruth
Rabbi Akiva
Rav
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32 min
October 23, 2024 Bubbe's Pickle
A Grandma asks Rabbi Shira and Hanna how to share Jewish traditions with her grandchildren. How can she share these traditions without overstepping? How can she be a Jewish grandparent at a distance?
Resources for Jewish grandparents:
Jewish Grandparents Network
PJ Library
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38 min
October 16, 2024 When the End of the World Isn’t My Problem
The news is awful, and everything feels terrible. Now go celebrate!
A news-obsessed listener asks for advice on how to be less negative at home. Is it ok to check out and still be a good Jew? And could Debbie Downer have been Jewish?
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33 min
October 09, 2024 Rabbi Shira’s Yom Kippur Sermon
The next best thing to being in the synagogue with Rabbi Shira…Tune in to Rabbi Shira’s sermon for this year’s Yom Kippur.
We want to live in a world of the everlasting yes--but what do we do when we get the terminal no, instead?
Read about the death and burial of Moses
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19 min
October 07, 2024 October 7th: One Year Later
A special episode on October 7th:
A year after the attack by Hamas on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza, Rabbi Shira and Hanna mourn the loss of life and talk about what else has been lost in the trauma of ongoing war with an uncertain future.
A young Jewish listener asks for advice on how to navigate tension between her two friend groups on opposite sides of the Israel debate.

Read Can We Talk About Israel by Dan Sokatch
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22 min
October 02, 2024 Live From D.C., It's Saturday Night
Live from Washington D.C.!
Rabbi Shira and Hanna are answering your real life questions live at a special event in Washington D.C. – a city known for its scandal and intrigue. A married listener is having an affair and has no plans to stop. Should he still repent on Yom Kippur?
Special thanks to Adas Israel Congregation in Washington D.C.
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35 min
September 25, 2024 All By Myself
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.
More on being "alone"
More on Jewish Shiva rituals
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34 min
September 18, 2024 The Amen Effect
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.
See Chutzpod! live in D.C.!
Read Mishnah Midot 2.2
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38 min

About 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…