In this episode Rabbi Spiro and Ellie discuss the recent elections in NY and the DSA candidates who won, and what the history of communism, socialism and democracy can help us understand about America today as it approaches it's 250th birthday.

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As Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." That's exactly what we're doing — going all the way back, so we can understand the present and shape what comes next.

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Ellie Bass → www.elliebass.com

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Remember What's Next is a labor of love for our people — and it's working. We've hit #1 in multiple countries, with thousands of listeners around the world tuning in. We want to grow this even further, and we'd love your help.

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Rabbi Ken Spiro and Ellie planned and recorded a podcast episode on cross-cultural negotiation differences, focusing on honor-shame vs. guilt-innocence paradigms and how these explain current US-Iran negotiations and Israel's broader negotiating history. The episode uses biblical, historical, and contemporary examples to argue that Western negotiators fundamentally misread Middle Eastern counterparts.

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As Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." That's exactly what we're doing — going all the way back, so we can understand the present and shape what comes next.

🎙️ Learn more about your hosts: 

Rabbi Ken Spiro →⁠⁠ www.KenSpiro.com⁠⁠ 

Ellie Bass →⁠⁠ www.elliebass.com⁠⁠

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Remember What's Next is a labor of love for our people — and it's working. We've hit #1 in multiple countries, with thousands of listeners around the world tuning in. We want to grow this even further, and we'd love your help. The simplest way to support us? Support the work: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext⁠⁠

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Part 2: Rabbi Spiro and Ellie are discussing the riots and demonstrations by Israel's Charedim who are against conscription and the cultural history behind the animus. How do we as a people with different visions of what the center of our lives should be start to reckon with the fact that we need each other. We begin with the history of the animus between the religious world and the secular zionist movements and how it has set us up today to not even be able to talk together and what kind of country we want Israel to be now and in the future.

Want the full story? Start from episode one.

As Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." That's exactly what we're doing — going all the way back, so we can understand the present and shape what comes next.

🎙️ Learn more about your hosts: 

Rabbi Ken Spiro →⁠ www.KenSpiro.com⁠ 

Ellie Bass →⁠ www.elliebass.com⁠

▶️ Subscribe on YouTube:⁠ ⁠http://www.youtube.com/@RkenSp

Help us keep going. Support the work on our KOFI page with a one time or monthly sponsorship: ⁠https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext⁠

Remember What's Next is a labor of love for our people — and it's working. We've hit #1 in multiple countries, with thousands of listeners around the world tuning in. We want to grow this even further, and we'd love your help. The simplest way to support us? Support the work: ⁠https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext⁠

Also! Like. Share. Subscribe. Review. Every single one helps more people discover the essential history behind who we are as a Jewish people — and the lens we need to understand the world today.

Thank you for being part of this journey with us. 🕎 📧 Got a question or topic idea? Email us: [email protected]

Part 1: Rabbi Spiro and Ellie are discussing the riots and demonstrations by Israel's Charedim who are against conscription and the cultural history behind the animus. How do we as a people with different visions of what the center of our lives should be start to reckon with the fact that we need each other. We begin with the history of the animus between the religious world and the secular zionist movements and how it has set us up today to not even be able to talk together and what kind of country we want Israel to be now and in the future.

Want the full story? Start from episode one.

As Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." That's exactly what we're doing — going all the way back, so we can understand the present and shape what comes next.

🎙️ Learn more about your hosts: 

Rabbi Ken Spiro → www.KenSpiro.com 

Ellie Bass → www.elliebass.com

▶️ Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@RkenSp

Help us keep going. Support the work on our KOFI page with a one time or monthly sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext

Remember What's Next is a labor of love for our people — and it's working. We've hit #1 in multiple countries, with thousands of listeners around the world tuning in. We want to grow this even further, and we'd love your help. The simplest way to support us? Support the work: https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext

Also! Like. Share. Subscribe. Review. Every single one helps more people discover the essential history behind who we are as a Jewish people — and the lens we need to understand the world today.

Thank you for being part of this journey with us. 🕎 📧 Got a question or topic idea? Email us: [email protected]

The final episode of our special series. Rabbi Ken Spiro, Professor Elan Javanfard, and Ellie Bass unpack how Ashkenazi and Sephardi/Mizrahi communities developed radically different responses to centuries of trauma — and how those responses still shape Jewish observance, identity, and reactivity today.

In the wake of October 7th, those differences matter more than ever. This conversation explores why Ashkenazi Judaism became fear-based and perfectionistic while Sephardi/Mizrahi Judaism remained attachment-based and warm, what each tradition gets right, and what an integrated, resilient Jewish future could look like.

Three components of Jewish resilience. Two wounds. One people. Listen now.

Welcome to a special three-part series of Remember What's Next called Jewish History and Trauma. Ellie Bass and  Rabbi Ken Spiro are in conversation with Professor Elan Javanfard who is a  researcher and expert in Jewish intergenerational trauma. Together, we are going to trace the full arc: where our collective wounds come from, how they live in us today especially now and what healing might actually look like going forward.

Find out more about Professor Javanfard and his work: https://www.elanjavanfard.com/ and check out his blog: https://nefesh.org/blogs/Ejavanfard 

Want the full story? Start from episode one.

As Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." That's exactly what we're doing — going all the way back, so we can understand the present and shape what comes next.

🎙️ Learn more about your hosts: 

Rabbi Ken Spiro → www.KenSpiro.com 

Ellie Bass → www.elliebass.com

▶️ Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@RkenSp

Help us keep going. Support the work on our KOFI page with a one time or monthly sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext

Remember What's Next is a labor of love for our people — and it's working. We've hit #1 in multiple countries, with thousands of listeners around the world tuning in. We want to grow this even further, and we'd love your help. The simplest way to support us? Support the work: https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext

Also! Like. Share. Subscribe. Review. Every single one helps more people discover the essential history behind who we are as a Jewish people — and the lens we need to understand the world today.

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Part 2 of Jewish History and Trauma - In this episode Rabbi Spiro and Professor Elan Javanfard explore the chronological and psychological history and experiences of Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews and how their past has shaped and created those communities into the way we know them today. How does honour, respect and family play a huge part in these communities in both healthy and unhealthy ways, and how does a perspective on who is “outside” and “inside” create a loyalty and Jewish practice that is unique. 

Welcome to a special three-part series of Remember What's Next called Jewish History and Trauma. Ellie Bass and  Rabbi Ken Spiro are in conversation with Professor Elan Javanfard who is a  researcher and expert in Jewish intergenerational trauma. Together, we are going to trace the full arc: where our collective wounds come from, how they live in us today especially now and what healing might actually look like going forward.

Find out more about Professor Javanfard and his work: https://www.elanjavanfard.com/ and check out his blog: https://nefesh.org/blogs/Ejavanfard 

Want the full story? Start from episode one.

As Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." That's exactly what we're doing — going all the way back, so we can understand the present and shape what comes next.

🎙️ Learn more about your hosts: 

Rabbi Ken Spiro → www.KenSpiro.com 

Ellie Bass → www.elliebass.com

▶️ Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@RkenSp

Help us keep going. Support the work on our KOFI page with a one time or monthly sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext

Remember What's Next is a labor of love for our people — and it's working. We've hit #1 in multiple countries, with thousands of listeners around the world tuning in. We want to grow this even further, and we'd love your help. The simplest way to support us? Support the work: https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext

Also! Like. Share. Subscribe. Review. Every single one helps more people discover the essential history behind who we are as a Jewish people — and the lens we need to understand the world today.

Thank you for being part of this journey with us. 🕎 📧 Got a question or topic idea? Email us: [email protected]

Part 1: Welcome to a special three-part series of Remember What's Next called Jewish History and Trauma. Ellie Bass and  Rabbi Ken Spiro are in conversation with Professor Elan Javanfard who is a  researcher and expert in Jewish intergenerational trauma. Together, we are going to trace the full arc: where our collective wounds come from, how they live in us today especially now and what healing might actually look like going forward.

This first episode in a special series examines how historical trauma shapes Jewish identity, focusing specifically on Ashkenazi Jews. The conversation establishes foundational concepts of trauma (capital T vs. lowercase t, individual vs. communal, intergenerational vs. multigenerational) and traces how 1,000 years of European persecution created distinctive psychological and behavioral patterns in Ashkenazi communities—including emotional restraint, hyper-achievement orientation, dark humor as coping mechanism, and somatization of distress.

Find out more about Professor Javanfard and his work: https://www.elanjavanfard.com/ and check out his blog: https://nefesh.org/blogs/Ejavanfard 

Want the full story? Start from episode one.

As Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." That's exactly what we're doing — going all the way back, so we can understand the present and shape what comes next.

🎙️ Learn more about your hosts: 

Rabbi Ken Spiro → www.KenSpiro.com 

Ellie Bass → www.elliebass.com

▶️ Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@RkenSp

Help us keep going. Support the work on our KOFI page with a one time or monthly sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext

Remember What's Next is a labor of love for our people — and it's working. We've hit #1 in multiple countries, with thousands of listeners around the world tuning in. We want to grow this even further, and we'd love your help. The simplest way to support us? Support the work: https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext

Also! Like. Share. Subscribe. Review. Every single one helps more people discover the essential history behind who we are as a Jewish people — and the lens we need to understand the world today.

Thank you for being part of this journey with us. 🕎 📧 Got a question or topic idea? Email us: [email protected]

Rabbi Spiro and Ellie Bass discuss what is happening right now and historically for Canadian Jews and some of the background and history behind it.

Want the full story? Start from episode one.

As Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." That's exactly what we're doing — going all the way back, so we can understand the present and shape what comes next.

🎙️ Learn more about your hosts: 

Rabbi Ken Spiro → www.KenSpiro.com 

Ellie Bass → www.elliebass.com

▶️ Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@RkenSp

Help us keep going. Support the work on our KOFI page with a one time or monthly sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext

Remember What's Next is a labor of love for our people — and it's working. We've hit #1 in multiple countries, with thousands of listeners around the world tuning in. We want to grow this even further, and we'd love your help.

The simplest way to support us? Support the work: https://ko-fi.com/rememberwhatsnext

Also! Like. Share. Subscribe. Review. Every single one helps more people discover the essential history behind who we are as a Jewish people — and the lens we need to understand the world today.

Thank you for being part of this journey with us. 🕎

📧 Got a question or topic idea? Email us: [email protected]

What does our DNA reveal about who we are as a people? In this episode of Remember What's Next, we explore the genetic history of the Jewish people and what it teaches us about our shared origins, our journey through history, and the family-turned-nation we've become.

We begin where it all began: in the Levant. The genetic evidence is clear — all Jews trace back to Judea, with roots firmly planted in the land of our ancestors. From there, we follow the threads of our story outward, examining how exile and survival shaped not only our culture and traditions, but our very biology.

We trace the Ashkenazi journey through the Rhineland, the Sephardic experience in Spain and Morocco, and the long, rich history of Mizrahi communities across the Middle East and North Africa. We look at how being enslaved and dispersed by the Roman Empire scattered our family across continents, and how centuries of life in different lands left their mark on visible traits like skin tone, eye color, and hair — even as our core genetic identity remained remarkably intact.

This is a story of one family that became a nation, a nation that endured exile, and a people whose genetic memory still carries the fingerprints of Judea after thousands of years. Join us as we connect the science to the soul of our shared Jewish story.

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Want the full story? Start from episode one.

As Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." That's exactly what we're doing — going all the way back, so we can understand the present and shape what comes next.

🎙️ Learn more about your hosts:

Rabbi Ken Spiro → www.KenSpiro.com

Ellie Bass → www.elliebass.com

📧 Got a question or topic idea? Email us: [email protected]

Help us keep going.

Remember What's Next is a labor of love for our people — and it's working. We've hit #1 in multiple countries, with thousands of listeners around the world tuning in. We want to grow this even further, and we'd love your help.

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The simplest way to support us? Like. Share. Subscribe. Review. Every single one helps more people discover the essential history behind who we are as a Jewish people — and the lens we need to understand the world today.

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Chag Kasher VSameach from Rabbi Spiro and Ellie!

Want more history? Go back and listen to this series from the beginning, as Winston Churchill once said “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” so we are going all the way back, so we can understand what is happening now and plan for the future.

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