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Le Shana Tova 5785!!

I am thrilled to debut Season 5 of The Holy Sparks Podcast

with a fresh new guest and long time friend: Rabbi Peretz Mochkin

Peretz, meaning "to breakthrough," is a rabbi deeply versed in Chasidic mysticism with over 20 years of experience. He specializes in crafting individualized rituals that promote personal growth and transformation. Having served in various capacities with Chabad and other religious organizations, Peretz now focuses on meeting people where they are, helping them create meaningful spiritual practices tailored to their needs.

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Rabbi Dr. Greg Marcus is an independent and unaffiliated Rabbi who creates safe and engaging spaces that make Jewish texts accessible to beginners and seasoned students alike. Rabbi Greg has a Ph.D. in Biology from MIT, worked ten years as a marketer in the genomics industry, and almost ten years as a stay at home parent. He recently received ordination from the Academy of Jewish Religion, California, and works as a grief counselor and funeral officient. His latest book is The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions: Finding Balance through the Soul Traits of Mussar, now available as an audiobook.

We talk about MIT vs AJRCA

working in the bio tech field vs the Rabbinate

His vision for serving the unaffiliated Jewish community

here in the Sf Bay Area and Beyond

Learn more about him here

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Krembo Baked Goods

The San Francisco Bay Areas

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And the best gluten free challah

I’ve ever had, and much more.

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Krembo is bringing the tastes of Jewish baking to the Bay Area. Krembo is the ONLY Parve (non-dairy) Kosher bakery in Northern California.

Krembo was developed over a period of 10 years by Fran Lent, Mary Coe and Esty Marcus. It started with Fran baking in her kitchen in Encino, California as a young girl and always enjoying eating desserts.

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This is a special edition of THE HOLY SPARKS PODCAST.

I started a series to help UC Berkeley students, college students

and their parents called THE REAL HISTORY OF ISRAEL.

This is Part two and is based around a class on the 1967 war.

Rabbi Gil Leeds has been the Chabad on Campus Rabbi

at UC Berkeley for 20 years and has a unique perspective

on what's happening now on and off campus.

Listen to hear 4 different arguments on why Jews have an

historical claim to the land of Israel.

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UC Berkeley Professor Ron Hassner has been living in his office on campus for a little over a week now.

He is "Sitting- In" for Jewish Students on Cal's Campus. Listen in to find out why.

This is his story.

If you have Jewish students on campus or are one, listen up, there's some great wisdom here.

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Lisa Biton was born and raised in Northern California.  She holds a BA in Classical Studies and European History from Santa Clara University and a MAT from USC.  Lisa studied abroad at Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva in 2005 and fell in love with the land of Israel - and her Israeli husband.  She made aliyah in 2009 to the southern city of Kiryat Gat. Lisa has worked for AMHSI since 2010, as both a general studies teacher and an Israel Studies teacher. Since 2022, Lisa has served as the Dean of Israel Studies.

Click here to help Lisa fundraise to help send college kids to Israel

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She has been teaching High School Students Israel history and

giving them tools and language to confidently navigate the Jewish

experience in America.

Listen to hear a few Libels debunked: Genocide, Apartheid, The White Colonialist state.

Also to hear a vision of Israel....

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Part two of my mini-series featuring the righteous women of the holy land.

Elana Rozenfeld is a cantor, performer, teacher, songwriter and theatre artist, who grew up teacher in musical theatre, jazz, chazzanut (traditional cantorial singing) and Yeshiva music, while also having a secret love of all things Sephardic. After receiving her BFA at the Tisch School of the Arts in NYU, focusing on solo performance, she entered the HL Miller Cantorial School at JTS to develop mastery of her Jewish musical traditions.  Since then, she has served as cantor at Park Avenue Synagogue in NYC and Congregation Shirat Hayam in Swampscott, MA.  Elana also served as the interim director of the School for Jewish Music at Hebrew College in Newton, MA.  Today, Elana lives in Kiryat Tivon, Israel, with her husband and three children, enjoying being a freelancing, singing, performing, and songwriting mommy. 

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Chaya holds an Ivy League BA in Religious Studies and MA in Clinical Psychology. She also did extensive doctoral work at Oxford University on the topic of ‘Experiential Torah Learning’. As co-director of Jerusalem’s Shalev Center for Jewish Personal Growth, Chaya offers therapy, classes as well as healing workshops & retreats both in Israel and internationally. She has published 2 books, "Lit" - Poetry for the Jewish Holidays, as well as "Babel's Daughter", based on her acclaimed one-woman show about life in Israel. Her writings have been included in multiple anthologies as well as her regular contributions to the Times of Israel.

We talk about their family making Alyiah over a decade ago, the Shalev Center, October 7th, life in Israel now, prophetic dreams, and what you can do to help right now.

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The Holy Sparks Podcast Season 3 Episode 8 Rabbi Gershom Sizomu is the Chief Rabbi of Abayudaya Community of Uganda and serves as the Av Beit Din (head of rabbinic conversion) for sub-Saharan Africa. He is 3rd generation rabbinic leader of the community, as his grandfather was an apprentice of the founder,

Semei Kakungulu. Rabbi Gershom studied at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies from 2003-2008 including a year at the Shechter Institute in Jerusalem.

He is the father to 5 children from ages 7 to 29, and splits his time between Kampala, the capital of Uganda, where he was also a Parliament Member from 2016-2021,

and Mbale, the hub of the Jewish community in the east of the country near the Kenyan border.

Here's the link for Rabbi Gershom's microcredit fundraiser that is active now make sure to select ABAYUDAYA FUND so that your tax deductible donation goes straight to their communities. https://www.hamakomla.org/payment.php

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In this Special Episode of The Holy Sparks Podcast, I interviewed Adi Hayun Perez who lives locally here in San Francisco.

I’m Her family grew up on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the first Kibbutzim to be raided by Hamas Terrorists on October 7th. In this interview you will hear about life growing up on Kfar Aza, what happened on October 7th, and how Adi's sister's family miraculously escaped.

------ Story Ima [mom] is it the end of the world...? This is the question Yahav Hadar, just seven years old, asked his parents during the terrorist attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza. As the sounds of gunfire and explosions filled the air, parents Tal and Roy Hadar sought refuge in their bomb shelter with their three children - eldest son Yahav, four year old toddler Reef, and infant Libi, born just two months before.

For ten long, excruciating hours, the Hadar family sheltered in place as father Roy blocked HAMAS terrorists from breaking down the door while mother Tal soothed her traumatized and starving children.

Unable to enter into the shelter, the terrorists set their newly constructed home on fire, in hopes of burning alive the five innocent Jews locked inside.

After enduring agonizing hours of sweltering heat, and as the lethal smoke fumes from the fiery blaze began to seep into their shelter, parents Tal and Roy made an unthinkable but courageous, split-second decision to attempt a dangerous and daring escape by crawling out the window and racing barefoot through the site of an heinous and unspeakable massacre which was - just hours before - a serene and sleepy Shabbat morning in the quiet desert plains of Israel’s southern region.

Miraculously, the Hadar family discovered a car, allowing them to expedite their journey and relocate to relative safety. While the Hadar family is thankfully all alive, they have lost everything… their new home, kind neighbors, beloved community, and any semblance of the secure life they had carefully crafted and fearlessly forged as a loving - and much loved - family of five, living peacefully and purposefully as Israeli citizens of the Jewish state. And now they need our help.

Together we CAN inspire hope and allow the Hadar Family to heal. Together we CAN restore their honor and defy the harrowing hate they endured. Together we CAN make a difference, in the life of this one family, right now. And in so doing, together, we WILL ensure a brighter future... ...not only for Tal and Roy, but for the next generation of Jews that Yadav, Reef and Libi will now live to be a part of.

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