Podcast Against Antisemitism

Doctor Sheila Nazarian is an award-winning Jewish Iranian-American plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills and the star of the Emmy-nominated Netflix Series, ‘Skin Decision: Before and After’. She has also guest starred on numerous other television series, including ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’, ‘Basketball Wives’, and ‘Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian’. 

Dr Nazarian is also the host of ‘The Closet’, a podcast where she engages with activists and changemakers in intimate conversations, live from her closet. Additionally, she is an activist against antisemitism and uses her large social media platform to speak out against hatred towards Jews.

In this episode, Dr Nazarian provides her perspective on the current levels of antisemitism, her concerns for Jewish university students on campus, and what it was like escaping Iran as a child.

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Susanna Fogel is an award-winning director and screenwriter and the Executive Producer and multi-episode Director of the biographical drama A Small Light, a National Geographic miniseries streaming now on Disney+,  that takes a look at the remarkable real-life heroism of Miep Gies, the woman responsible for hiding Anne Frank’s family, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer, during the Holocaust. 

In this episode, Susanna speaks on Miep’s incredible work and what it was like to create the series.

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Simon Miller is a Jewish professional wrestler and presenter known to millions as one of the hosts of the WhatCulture Wrestling YouTube channel, which regularly posts wrestling-related content to over 2 million subscribers. Simon performs on wrestling cards up and down the United Kingdom, as well as internationally, and has used his considerable online presence to draw attention to antisemitism.

In this episode, Simon delves into how issues of Jewish identity and antisemitism have been handled within the wrestling industry, both on and off-screen, and reveals what Judaism means to him personally.

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Jonathan Brent is an academic and historian who serves as the Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, a cultural organisation and place of higher learning with a world-renowned library and archive of 24 million documents whose mission is to preserve, study, share, and perpetuate knowledge of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide.

In this episode, Jonathan reflects on the culture of East European Jewry before and during the Holocaust, the origins of the antisemitic trope “Zionism is racism”, and how Joseph Stalin helped to create a new form of antisemitism.

This episode is the final installment of Season 3 of Podcast Against Antisemitism. We’ll be taking a short break and returning in April for Season 4 with a really exciting line-up of guests. We’d like to thank all of you for listening, and hope that you’re finding our podcast as enjoyable to listen to as we do in producing it.

Now, please enjoy this week’s episode.

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Allison Josephs is the Founder and Executive Director of Jew In The City, a non-profit organisation that seeks to change negative perceptions of religious Jews and make engaging and meaningful Orthodox Judaism known and accessible. Allison was named by Variety as an advocate for inclusivity in the entertainment industry in its 2022 Inclusion Impact Report, has been quoted or written about in numerous publications, including Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, and has made appearances on numerous television and radio networks including CBS, ABC, and NPR.

In this episode, Allison exposes the problematic tropes in the Netflix film ‘You People’, outlines the antisemitic stereotypes imposed onto Orthodox Jews in television, and how she made history at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Tova Ricardo, better known as Tova the Poet, is a poet whose poems speak from her perspective as a Black Jewish woman. In her poetry, she ruminates on how she perceives the world and how the world perceives her, which includes celebrating her culture and identity, but also having to confront the antisemitism, anti-Black racism, and sexism that comes with it. 

In this episode, Tova performs a poetry reading, describes what growing up in her Louisiana Creole, Black, and Jewish home was like, and offers her thoughts on Black Hebrew Israelites.

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Rabbi Aubrey Hersh is the author of the popular podcast “History for the Curious”. He is also the Projects Director & Senior Lecturer at the JLE (Jewish Learning Exchange) in London. Over the past two decades, he has taken over 250 Heritage tours to Europe including destinations such as Auschwitz, and has specialised in Holocaust education, with several of his podcast series focusing on elements of antisemitism and the Holocaust.

In this episode, Rabbi Hersh discusses Purim and what it teaches us about antisemitism throughout history.

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Ben M. Freeman is a Scottish, gay, Jewish author, activist, and educator whose latest book, Reclaiming Our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride, is the second instalment of his seminal manifesto of the modern Jewish Pride movement that has taken the Jewish world by storm.

In this live podcast recording, filmed at the inaugural “CAA presents…” event, Ben discusses how external antisemitism can result in internalised anti-Jewishness, leading to Jews altering their beliefs, and even appearances, in the pursuit of acceptance from antisemites.

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Shloime Zionce is a YouTuber and podcaster from Brooklyn’s Hasidic community. In addition to being the Foreign Affairs correspondent for Ami Magazine, a publication geared towards Orthodox Jews, which has taken him to over 40 countries on 5 continents, he is also known for starring in Peter Santenello’s popular YouTube series about Brooklyn’s Hasidic community which has racked up million views.

In this episode, Shloime offers his thoughts on the misconceptions about identifiable Jews, the horrific statistics of violent antisemitic attacks against them, and his reaction to meeting refugees in Ukraine.

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Adriana Rosie, better known online as the Non-Jewish Nanny, has amassed millions of views and likes for her entertaining and educational TikTok and Instagram content in which she provides her perspective as a non-Jewish person looking after children from Jewish families.

In this episode, Adriana describes what it was like learning about antisemitism through working for Jewish families, her journey into the world of Jewish culture, and her career as a trained opera singer.

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