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The Frieda Vizel Podcast

Frieda Vizel

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Welcome to in-depth conversations on Hasidism, Judaism, NYC, culture, education, religion and more!This podcast is hosted by popular Youtuber Frieda Vizel, who has been studying the Hasidic community for more than ten years.This is the podcast version of the video conversations which are also published on Youtube. Please reach out with feedback. Here's the youtube channel if you prefer to see the host and guests! :)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-frieda-v...

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Episodes (159)

Laughing through cancer | Leah Forster

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Bonus, livestream: Why I posted and then pulled the video of the bride dancing

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Bonus, livestream: We Had Never Touched. Then Came Our Wedding Night. | Rachel E...

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Dec 6, 202529:57pending

Jewish law on abortion and inferitily | Pt 2 R' Ysoscher Katz

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Nov 30, 20251:00:56pending

Jewish law on contraception & masturbation | Pt 1 R' Ysoscher Katz

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Nov 23, 202558:22pending

The power of Yiddish children's stories to shape our world | Miriam Udel

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Nov 9, 20251:07:34pending

The Get / My divorce 💔

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Oct 26, 20258:41pending

Ex-Hasidic star Riki Rose faces her past in Williamsburg

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Oct 19, 20251:34:05pending

Yom Kippur attack, antisemitism in the UK, more | Izzy Posen

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Oct 12, 20251:17:38pending

Jews, magic, and the kosher arts | Dovy the Magician

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Sep 28, 202540:49pending

From Berlin to Satmar Williamsburg | 95 year old Nelly Grussgott

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Sep 21, 202541:31pending

Hasidic women fight to form a female EMS | Paula Eiselt

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Sep 14, 202555:19pending

Are both sides condemned to kill each other forever? | Rabbi Mayer Schiller

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Sep 7, 20251:28:19pending

On Yiddish, Suicide and more | Mattel from Multisingual

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Aug 24, 202549:45pending

Grab your popcorn, we're talking Jewish movies | David Akerman

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Aug 17, 20251:28:26pending

Should Jews return to blood soaked Poland? | Naomi Seidman

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Aug 10, 202530:41pending

Hasidic women’s modesty and clothing traditions | Pearl

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Aug 3, 202517:12pending

"I never felt female and didn't fit in that world" | Naomi Seidman

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Jul 20, 20251:21:05pending

The Rebbitzen reveals her identity | Danielle Jacobs

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Jun 22, 20251:21:37pending

Why I left activism for Hasidic education | Naftuli Moster

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Jun 15, 20251:10:31pending

Workout culture coming to the Ultra Orthodox world | Shmilly Feldman

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Jun 8, 202556:56pending

What it's like to grow up in Kiryas Joel | An essay by Frieda Vizel

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May 25, 202512:45pending

Are Jews allowed to fight? | a controversial discussion with anti-Zionist Hasidi...

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May 18, 20251:18:17pending

Living on the border and creating the hit TV show Shtisel | Yehonatan Indursky

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May 4, 20251:18:54pending

What it was like to grow up Amish | Martha Ross

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Apr 27, 20251:17:28pending

Reading the Yiddish children's version of the Book of Exodus

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Apr 15, 202531:28pending

Bonus: music video 'Mein Kind' referenced in my essay on the stories we tell

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Apr 6, 202514:16pending

Unorthodox vs the OTHER story | How we talk about people who leave insular socie...

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Apr 6, 202528:21pending

A visually impaired Hasidic woman tells her story | Rochel Bodek

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Mar 23, 202559:13pending

A historian's warning | Anna Shternshis

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Mar 16, 20251:20:56pending

A revolution in Yiddish arts & theater by Hasidim | Ari Abromowitz

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Mar 9, 202555:17pending

I grew up in Kiryas Joel and embraced plant medicine

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Feb 23, 20251:10:11pending

"I craved religion and even tried Christianity" | In Conversation with comedian...

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Feb 16, 20251:03:31pending

🚨 For women, girls, AND men and boys | In conversation with Jessica Roda

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Feb 9, 20251:06:54pending

"I risk everything when speaking out as a woman in Kiryas Joel" | Exclusive inte...

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Jan 26, 202549:37pending

Messiah Energy and Wholesome Comedy | Interview with Modi Rosenfeld

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Jan 19, 202539:47pending

My Chanukah Memories | Reading: Circumcised Chanukah Gifts

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Dec 29, 202420:39pending

Sex ed in the Hasidic community | A Hasidic grooms receives the birds and the be...

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Nov 24, 202436:31pending

The intersection of Sex and Piety | In Conversation with Intimacy Coach Peggy Gr...

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Nov 23, 20241:03:16pending

A battle for land between Hasidim and their neighbors | In conversation with Jes...

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Nov 3, 202452:09pending

The Talmud as a Door | In Conversation with Miriam Anzovin

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Oct 26, 202450:23pending

A Jew from today, but from yesterday... | In Conversation with Lea Kalisch

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Oct 12, 20241:08:50pending

Reflections a year after October 7th; stream of consciousness sharing

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Oct 8, 202433:35pending

Can we call her a Hasidic feminist? | Interview with Hasidic Influencer Raizy Fr...

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Oct 8, 202451:08pending

The complicated relationship between animals and Orthodox Jews | discussing myth...

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Sep 29, 202415:39pending

When one half of a town turns on the other | Interview with Director Igor Golyak

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Sep 8, 202441:27pending

What life is like for a Hasidic lady in the Catskills today | With comedian Leah...

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Aug 4, 202458:08pending

A Bungalow Colony for Survivors I In Conversation with Director Andrew Jacobs

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Jul 21, 202453:47pending

He returned to live in the most insular Israeli enclave after leaving it | Tuvia...

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Jun 30, 20241:17:31pending

"No one had a grandfather" | Gita recounts the Hasidic community after the holoc...

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Jun 16, 202454:16pending