Explore every episode of the podcast Chutzpod!
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| Rabbi Freud | 30 sept. 2026 | 00:32:16 | |
Fun fact: Rabbi Shira is not only a rabbi, she’s also a therapist! So she’s uniquely equipped to answer this week’s listener question: When should you seek counseling from a rabbi and when should you see a therapist? Shira and Hanna debate the merits of both types of counseling and find themselves asking why do Jews love therapy so much?! Listen to Hanna on Radio Atlantic: How American Became Addicted to Therapy: Read a History of Jewish Chaplaincy Read about how Rabbis act as counselors Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Chutzpod on YouTube Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Hebrew School Dropout | 23 sept. 2026 | 00:47:54 | |
🎶No graduation day for you 🎶 As Hebrew Schools around the country supply their students with lulavs and etrogs for the upcoming Sukkot holiday, Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk about all things religious education. What’s the goal? Is it working? Is Hebrew School just a B’Mitzvah Factory? (and is there anything wrong with that?). Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal, the Senior Director of Youth and Family Education at Central Synagogue in New York, helps answer these questions and more. Read more on Jewish obligations to teaching children Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Chutzpod on YouTube Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Rabbi Shira’s Yom Kippur Sermon: “See It” | 16 sept. 2026 | 00:15:42 | |
Even if you can’t make it to Aspen you can hear Rabbi Shira’s sermon for Yom Kippur this year. Drawing on her own experience visiting the Langa Township in Cape Town, South Africa, the Yom Kippur Haftarah reading and some Ursula LeGuin, Shira urges us all to “shrink the frame” to a human-sized small town of responsibility, practice Teshuvah and reject willful blindness. Watch this sermon Read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Read the Yom Kippur Haftarah reading Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Chutzpod on YouTube Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Misery Loves Company (Even on Rosh Hashanah) | 09 sept. 2026 | 00:33:25 | |
Chutzpod is back to usher everyone into the New Year! And as we approach 5787, a listener wonders how to show up authentically, even if that means bringing the mood down. Rabbi Shira and Hanna wonder why we feel pressure to have a “happy” new year and encourage everyone not to bring the Jewish equivalent of a sanitized Christmas letter to their high holiday celebrations. Read This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared Read about the Unetanah Tokef Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Chutzpod on YouTube Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| The Long Arc: 250 Years of Jews and America | 02 sept. 2026 | 01:16:23 | |
Listen to this special bonus episode recorded live at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 12, 2026. As America approaches 250 years, this conversation looks at the enduring relationship between Jewish life and the American experiment. Through historical reflection and contemporary insight, speakers will explore how Jewish tradition and democratic ideals have shaped one another—and what that long story asks of us now. This conversation features Rabbi Sharon Brous, Founder and Senior Rabbi of IKAR, Eric Cohen, President and CEO of Tikvah, and moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic. Chutzpod will be back with new episodes September 9th! Need advice from Hanna and Shira? Submit your questions to chutzpod@gmail.com. And make sure you're subscribed. Listen to Rabbi Brous on Chutzpod! More AJC conversations Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Coming Soon...Chutzpod Season 8! | 26 août 2026 | 00:01:03 | |
Chutzpod is coming back with new episodes and new real-life questions September 9th! Rabbi Shira and Hanna will talk about when to see a rabbi over a therapist, how to navigate a mixed-observance marriage and is believing in aliens Jewish?? Subscribe to automatically get all new episodes. And submit your own questions to be featured on an episode! Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| A Whole Lotta Leviticus: Our Traditional (Untraditional) Torah Study for Season 7 | 22 avr. 2026 | 00:39:28 | |
In our Season 7 finale, Hanna again poses as a yeshiva bocher. Shira takes her through a very special double Torah portion: Achrei Mot-Kedoshim Leviticus 16:1–20:27. She talks about why Leviticus is such a grab bag of rules and laws with seemingly no real narrative order, some of the more controversial laws on sex, homosexuality and female impurity and how to view this part of the Torah as a guide to holiness in daily life, especially in a contemporary world that is often too cruel. Read Achrei Mot-Kedoshim Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Ol' Dirty Money | 15 avr. 2026 | 00:37:34 | |
What does Judaism say about accepting “dirty” money? A listener has been watching the online debate about how her alma mater should handle money from a prominent donor associated with Jeffery Epstein. She asks how does Jewish tradition handle this moral predicament? And at what point are institutions complicit spiritually and ethically when they accept tainted funds? Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk about when tzedakah becomes murky and how to be accountable morally and practically. Listen to Responsa Radio’s “Can Nonprofits Accept Money from Crooks?” Read about accepting and using stolen money Read about using a stolen lulav Read Rabbi Sharon Brous’ sermon on the stolen beam Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Bubbemeises | 08 avr. 2026 | 00:37:36 | |
Is covering your mirrors during shiva a superstition or Jewish law? What about breaking the glass at a wedding? Tashlich? Rabbi Shira and Hanna discuss the ideas of Jewish luck and bad luck and where they fit into law and tradition. And they welcome a VERY special guest – Hanna’s mother Miriam. Her sister has had a string of bad accidents and she wants to know if changing her mezuzah will ward off future health scares. Read more on Jewish superstitions Check your mezuzah Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Practically Kosher | 01 avr. 2026 | 00:45:57 | |
Is it Kosher to question Kashrut? A listener writes, “Why do Jews have Kosher rules? And how would you suggest a previously unobservant Jew approach Kashrut, if at all?” Rabbi Shira admits that teaching the laws of kashrut is one of the hardest things she has to do as a rabbi. She does her best to make sense of it all and gives her best pitch for a mindfulness-based Jewish eating practice. FAQ about Kosher laws Read more about keeping Kosher in a non-Kosher world Read Maimonides' commentary on the laws of Kashrut Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| A Sober Seder | 25 mars 2026 | 00:32:12 | |
Wine is central to Jewish ritual, but what if drinking isn’t safe for you? A listener in recovery dreads what used to be his favorite holiday, Passover. He writes that he dreads all the wine talk and dreads having to explain why he's opting out. He asks, "Can I skip the Seder this year?" Rabbi Shira and Hanna are joined by Rabbi Sue Reinhold of the Torah of Recovery to explore why wine matters, how Judaism understands both joy and danger in drinking, the stigma around addiction in Jewish communities and practical ways to participate, or not. Contact Rabbi Sue Reinhold Study Torah of Recovery Find a Seder Read about addiction in the Torah Read about free will in the Torah, Free Will, by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Can’t We Just Have a Happy Passover? | 18 mars 2026 | 00:41:06 | |
With the world feeling particularly heavy, Rabbi Shira and Hanna wonder if, in addition to moments of anger and resistance, they can find a way to bring joy into this year’s Passover Seder. They’re joined by Rav Jericho Vincent, the founding rabbi of Temple of the Stranger, a growing mystical Jewish community in Brooklyn, NY. Listen to Jericho’s podcast Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness Read Jericho’s substack Read Jericho’s scholarship on the Torah of Miriam Watch Debbie Friedman's "Miriam's Song" arranged/produced by Daniel Raijman Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Hey A**hole | 11 mars 2026 | 00:43:17 | |
After a listener misgenders someone at synagogue, a torrent of feelings, recriminations and emails ensue, leading one congregant to email another with the subject “Hey Asshole.” Rabbi Shira and Hanna welcome Rabbi Lily Solochek of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London, whose work focuses on creating inclusive Jewish communities, especially for queer and trans people and families. Visit The Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London Learn more about Rabbi Lily Solochek Read about Joseph's ornamented coat Read about Sarah as a tumtum Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram | |||
| Is Vanity Fair? | 04 mars 2026 | 00:38:07 | |
Is Botox kosher? What about filler, extensions or hair dye? Can a good Jew be too vain? And does Judaism value beauty? A listener reaches out for help when her two daughters are horrified to discover their feminist mom has a secret desire for luxurious lashes. Rabbi Shira and Hanna help her navigate personal vanity, Jewish values and 21st century parenting. And they reveal their own insecurities and zoom primping rituals. Read more about Joseph & beauty in the Torah Read more about hospitality, vanity and beauty Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| The Psychedelic Experience...on Purim | 25 févr. 2026 | 00:40:33 | |
We’re back for Season 7! Purim is a time to reveal the hidden, unmask your shadow self and, perhaps, get super sloshed. But a listener wonders about having a psychedelic experience on Purim. Rabbi Shira and Hanna get advice from Rabbi Zac Kamenetz, the founder of Shefa, an organization working to integrate safe and supported psychedelic use into the Jewish spiritual tradition. Read about the shadow self Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Coming Soon...Chutzpod Season 7! | 28 janv. 2026 | 00:01:00 | |
Chutzpod is coming back with new episodes and new real-life questions February 25th! Rabbi Shira and Hanna will talk about using psychedelics on Purim, whether it’s ok to be vain and how synagogues can be more inclusive to trans members. Subscribe to automatically get all new episodes. And submit your own questions to be featured on an episode! Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Rich Jew, Poor Jew | 21 janv. 2026 | 00:44:08 | |
Did you know that 29% of American Jews struggle to make ends meet? What you are about to hear is a session from the 2025 Jewish Federation of North America General Assembly, the JFNA GA, entitled Redefining Jewish Life Through the Lens of Economic Reality. In this session, we examined 2025 data on Jewish poverty in America, and discussed how our communal narratives about money and class obscure the real experiences of Jews across the economic spectrum. The first speaker you’ll hear is Rachel Sumekh, Entrepreneur and CEO of Together Ending Need. You’ll also hear from Jon Hornstein, Program Director at The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, and our own Rabbi Shira. To see some of the data referenced in this episode, go to togetherendingneed.org/ga New episodes of Chutzpod will be back February 25th! Send your questions and comments to chutzpod@gmail.com. Make sure you're subscribed, spread the word, and we’ll talk to you then! Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Our Traditional Untraditional Torah Study | 10 déc. 2025 | 00:49:15 | |
Rabbi Shira and Hanna end the season with a torah study jam packed with family dynamics, sibling rivalry, maternal manipulations, nation-building and birthright. Read Parashat Toldot Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| I Was Invited to a Wedding in Israel, and I Don't Want to Go | 03 déc. 2025 | 00:46:53 | |
Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a listener who was invited to a family wedding in Israel, but doesn’t want to go. How important are weddings? And what if your conflicting feelings and grief are just too painful? This is a must-listen for anyone experiencing a shift in Jewish identity when it comes to a relationship with Israel. Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a listener navigate his changing feelings and conflicted opinions about Israel. Text on importance of going to Jewish weddings Read more about Hachnasat kallah: the importance of preparing a bride for her wedding Read more about the mitzvah of bringing joy to people getting married Suggestions for traveling to Israel right now: Follow our Instagram to join the conversation this week: How do you feel about traveling to Israel right now? Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Dogs on a Plane (Revisited) | 26 nov. 2025 | 00:34:35 | |
As many of you are traveling for Thanksgiving this week, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes. Dogs on a plane are kosher, but are they annoying? Rabbi Shira and Hanna discuss the Jewish ethics around animals. And, is the Torah ableist? If you have any interesting Jewish travel moments, let us know! Read more about Jewish pet names Read more about Rosh Hahanah LaBehemah Learn about ableism in the Torah Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| The All Death Episode | 19 nov. 2025 | 00:48:36 | |
Our Chutzsquad sends in so many great questions about death and dying. Today, Hanna and Rabbi Shira attempt to answer as many as possible. Why, how and when do we say Mourner’s Kaddish, and for whom? What happens when you don’t have access to your loved one’s body and what’s the Jewish approach to a eulogy? Listen to Death With Dignity episode Read more about the Mi Sheiberach Read more about the Jewish afterlife Read more about Tahara Read more about the Jewish approach to giving a eulogy Read more about what to do when you can’t or don’t want to grieve through prayer Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Three Rabbis Walk Into a Bar: A Rabbinic Roundtable | 12 nov. 2025 | 00:39:38 | |
Ever wish you could listen in as a group of rabbis kibbitz about their jobs–the good, the bad and the ugly? Rabbi Shira hosts a roundtable for her rabbinic friends where they can laugh, commiserate and get some things off their chests. We’re joined by Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of Adas Israel in Washington D.C. and Rabbi Seth Goldstein of Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, Washington. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Jewish Geography | 05 nov. 2025 | 00:36:23 | |
Everyone loves to play Jewish geography, right? But what if you find the practice exclusive, confusing or even offensive? Is it time to reconsider and leave “bageling” in the past? Why don’t you ask a convert to tell their story? Sing-a-long to “Wherever You Go” Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Robot Rabbis | 29 oct. 2025 | 00:34:50 | |
A listener tells Rabbi Shira and Hanna that her rabbi uses AI to write sermons…and she doesn’t like it. What are the Jewish ethics of AI? And how does Shira utilize this new technology? Read more about “the law of the land is the law” Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Tradition! | 22 oct. 2025 | 00:40:16 | |
What’s most important when it comes to preserving Jewish tradition for future generations? Is it sharing Jewish stories? Food? Singing Hatikvah as a lullaby? And what if…the baby isn’t even Jewish? Rabbi Shira and Hanna offer advice to a soon-to-be Saba who wants to share his Jewish joy with his grandchild. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Tattoo Taboos | 15 oct. 2025 | 00:42:21 | |
A newly committed Jew is wondering if he should remove his old celtic cross tattoo. Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk about the complex relationships between Jews and tattoos, including their own! Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Shopping for Shuls | 08 oct. 2025 | 00:40:33 | |
What should you look for when shul shopping besides “that feeling”? How do you know a synagogue is right for you? And what role should a temple play in our modern lives? As we celebrate Sukkot and Simchat Torah, Rabbi Shira and Hanna offer one congregation consumer their advice. Visit a BASE Jewish Community Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| "As a Jew" on Yom Kippur with Sarah Hurwitz | 01 oct. 2025 | 00:59:40 | |
Rabbi Shira and Hanna welcome former White House speechwriter and author Sarah Hurwitz for a conversation about her latest book As a Jew, an urgent exploration of how antisemitism has shaped Jewish identity, the complexities of modern Jewish life, and what lessons Sarah learned from being a hospital chaplain. More about Sarah Hurwitz Listen to Sarah on Chutzpod Make malawach! Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram | |||
| Rabbi Shira's High Holiday Sermon | 24 sept. 2025 | 00:19:27 | |
Shana Tova Chutzsquad! Welcome 5786 with Rabbi Shira’s annual high holiday message. Study the Unetaneh Tokef Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| A Happy (And Hungry) New Year with Jake Cohen | 17 sept. 2025 | 00:47:52 | |
We're back with new episodes for the new year! A self-professed “nice Jewish boy from New York City,” Jake Cohen is the New York Times bestselling author of Jew-ish and I Could Nosh, star of A&E’s Jake Makes It Easy. He talks about his new book Dinner Party Animal, why Jews are so obsessed with food and helps us all with our food and entertaining questions. Learn more about Jake Cohen Follow Jake Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Aspen Jewish Conversations: How Big Should the Tent Be? | 10 sept. 2025 | ||
Listen to a special live event held at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 13, 2025. In a time of deep division, what does it really mean to belong to the Jewish people? And how do we stay in community when our beliefs, priorities, and red lines conflict? This session draws on the idea of the “big tent” as both a moral aspiration and a real-world challenge, exploring how we navigate differences while maintaining a sense of Jewish peoplehood. This conversation features Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, Shalom Hartman Institute President Yehuda Kurtzer, and the Executive Director of the Harvard Hillel Jason Rubenstein. Chutzpod will be back with new episodes September 17th! Need advice from Hanna and Shira? Submit your questions to chutzpod@gmail.com. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Aspen Jewish Conversations: Can We Tell a New Jewish Story? | 03 sept. 2025 | 01:17:36 | |
Listen to a special live event held at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 13, 2025. The Jewish experience has always been bigger than survival. Yet too often, the public stories we tell center on trauma and loss. This session explores how we might reclaim stories of resilience, creativity, and contribution, and how new narratives could help us build a future rooted in strength. This conversation features Dasi Fruchter, Founder & Spiritual Leader of the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, Mark Oppenheimer, Creator & Host of Unorthodox podcast and Dara Horn, Author and Founder & President of Mosaic Persuasion. Chutzpod will be back with new episodes September 17th! Need advice from Hanna and Shira? Submit your questions to chutzpod@gmail.com. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Aspen Jewish Conversations: What’s the Next Golden Age for American Jews? | 28 août 2025 | 00:59:03 | |
Listen to a special live event held at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 6, 2025. For decades, American Jews enjoyed unprecedented safety, success, and cultural influence. But beneath that prosperity, many became disconnected from Jewish tradition and meaning. Was that truly a golden age, or just the foundation for what could come next? This session reckons with the story of Jewish life in America and asks what a deeper, more meaningful era might look like. This conversation features The Atlantic's Franklin Foer, spiritual leader and scholar Mijal Bitton, and Senior Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue Chutzpod will be back with new episodes September 17th! Need advice from Hanna and Shira? Submit your questions to chutzpod@gmail.com. Listen to Frank Foer's previous Chutzpod conversation Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Coming Soon: Chutzpod Season 6 | 27 août 2025 | 00:01:21 | |
Chutzpod is coming back with new episodes and new real-life questions September 17th! Rabbi Shira and Hanna will answer questions about "shul shopping," tattoo taboos and rabbis using AI. Plus they talk to Jewish foodie Jake Cohen and author and White House speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz. Subscribe to automatically get all new episodes. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Aspen Jewish Conversations: Why Do Jewish Ideas Matter? | 20 août 2025 | 01:05:37 | |
Listen to a special live event held at Aspen Jewish Congregation on July 30, 2025. Jewish ideas offer a framework for thinking deeply and living purposefully. But in a world flooded with content and opinion, what does Judaism offer that is distinctive and worth sustaining? This opening session explores what gives Jewish ideas their enduring relevance and why they’re worth learning from and living by today. This conversation features speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz, author of Here All Along and As a Jew, New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens, and Wexner Foundation President Rabbi B. Elka Abrahamson. Chutzpod will be back with new episodes September 17th! Need advice from Hanna and Shira? Submit your questions to chutzpod@gmail.com. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram | |||
| Torah Study on Shavuot | 28 mai 2025 | 00:34:15 | |
Back by popular demand, Rabbi Shira and Hanna cap off this season with a Shavuot celebration and Torah study Back by popular demand, Rabbi Shira and Hanna cap off this season with a Shavuot celebration and Torah study. They help a young listeners preparing for his Bar Mitzvah and lead us us through Sh’lach L’cha, which Rabbi Shira loves because it’s one of the stories that has the most to teach us about our lived experience today. Read Sh’lach L’cha Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Eww Self-Care | 21 mai 2025 | 00:38:02 | |
Beyond face masks and candles is there such a thing as “Jewish Self-Care”? Rabbi Shira and Hanna admit they are allergic to the lavender-scented concept and respond to a listener who wants to know more about Judaism’s notion of taking care of oneself. Read the story about surviving in the desert. Read the story about bathing while mourning Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Holy $#@%! | 14 mai 2025 | 00:38:22 | |
A listener tells us she loves the show – it’s funny, it’s wise (aww shucks), but oy such language! She says feh to the vulgar cursing and prompts Rabbi Shira and Hanna to wonder what Judaism says about “working blue.” Read about Nivul Peh Read about Derech Eretz Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| My Jewish Friend is a Murderer. Can We Stay In Touch? | 07 mai 2025 | 00:40:37 | |
A listener’s friend committed a heinous crime and is now in prison. She wonders if remaining friends and visiting him dishonors his victim’s memory. Tune in to hear Rabbi Shira and Hanna’s advice. Are There Things That Can’t Be Forgiven? A Prayer for Those Not Ready to Forgive, by Rabbi Jill Zimmerman Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Rabbi Shira in Conversation with David Brooks | 30 avr. 2025 | 00:54:12 | |
Rabbi Shira shares her live conversation with New York Times' Opinion columnist David Brooks.* And on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) she talks about the importance of voting in the World Zionist Congress. *This event was hosted by Sixth & I, a center for arts, entertainment, ideas, and Jewish life in Washington DC. Vote in the World Zionist Congress Listen to more conversations from Sixth & I Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| I Never Taught My Kids About the Holocaust | 23 avr. 2025 | 00:40:52 | |
On the eve of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Rabbi Shira asks a surprising question: Do we actually have to teach our kids about the Holocaust? (Spoiler Alert: She didn’t.) She looks back at her own choices about Holocaust education and finds a way forward. More resources for talking to your kids about the Holocaust and Antisemitism: Guidelines for Teaching The Holocaust Activities for Holocaust learning Talking to Children About Antisemitism A Very Brief Guide to Antisemitism Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Bringing Your Gun to the Seder: Violence, Resistance and the Passover Story | 16 avr. 2025 | 00:42:39 | |
As we celebrate Passover during the current climate, Rabbi Shira talks to Hanna about what Judaism says about violence, resistance and freedom. And they speak to a Jewish gun owner about his choice to protect himself. More on preventing harm and stumbling blocks in the Torah Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Not in a Happy Passover Mood | 09 avr. 2025 | 00:40:58 | |
Hanna asks the questions this week as we prepare for Passover. How do we tell and interpret the Passover story when it feels like we’re firmly stuck at the beginning of our own contemporary plight? Do we have the opportunity to have perhaps the most authentic seder any of us have had in our lived experience? Rabbi Shira has tips and wisdom for you as you prepare your own seders. Add to your own Haggadot Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram | |||
| Judge Jewdy | 02 avr. 2025 | 00:39:55 | |
Are you Jewish enough? Too Jewish? Why are we Jews so judgy of one another? Rabbi Shira and Hanna receive a letter from a listener whose embrace of Judaism as an adult is making her less religious mother bristle. Read an example of Jewish judging in the Torah Support Chutzpod! Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Should I Join My Temple Board? | 26 mars 2025 | 00:29:24 | |
Ever wondered what an actual rabbi thinks about the temple board? What makes some temple communities work and others fail? Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a listener figure out whether or not to join her temple board. Read more about Jewish responsibility to the community Read more about Jewish leadership Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| The Jewish Way to a Good Life | 19 mars 2025 | 00:36:20 | |
Hanna talks to Rabbi Shira about her new book The Jewish Way to a Good Life. She distills thousands of years of Jewish wisdom into practical, time-tested strategies for living a more meaningful life and reminds us: You don’t have to be Jewish to do Jewish. And she tells us how. Get Shira’s book! See Shira in conversation with David Brooks Read the story about crashing your rabbi's marital bed Read more about Shabbat and rest Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Purim for Grown-Ups | 12 mars 2025 | 00:40:15 | |
Rabbi Shira makes a passionate plea to reclaim the holiday of Purim away from just the kids. But what does Jewish debauchery even look like? And why does it give Hanna the ick? Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk to “Sabbath Queen” Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, co-founder of LabShul, about his family story, drag and finding Jewish joy in dark times…even for us adults. See Sabbath Queen Read The Book of Esther Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram | |||
| What's Up, Doc? | 05 mars 2025 | 00:27:58 | |
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 Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| WTF, God?! | 26 févr. 2025 | 00:36:41 | |
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 Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram | |||
| Should You Give Your Kid a Super Jewy Name? | 19 févr. 2025 | 00:39:10 | |
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 Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||