Reboot Presents

Kitchen Radio - Konafa a la Creme with Claudia Roden

In the season finale of the Kitchen Radio podcast, icon of the Middle Eastern and Jewish food worlds, Claudia Roden, makes an Egyptian-Jewish version of Konafa which is o

Kitchen Radio - Brik with Rafram Chaddad

Rafram Chaddad dispatches live from La Goulette, Tunis with a rapid-fire making of ‘Brik’, a Jewish specialty that became a favorite regional street food. Rafram document

Kitchen Radio - Kubba Bamia + Biscochos with the Sephardic Spice Girls

The Sephardic Spice Girls (Rachel Emquies Sheff + Sharon Gomperts) of Los Angeles serve up Iraqi-Jewish Kubba Bamia and Sephardic ‘Biscochos’ with tea and talk about how

Kitchen Radio - Gondi Kashi with Tannaz Sassooni

In the series premiere of Kitchen Radio, Tannaz Sassooni makes us a meatless Gondi Kashi from her grandmother’s Iran and recounts a lively tradition Persian Jews play dur

Introducing: The Kitchen Radio Podcast (Trailer)

The Kitchen Radio podcast brings listeners to the table of communities from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia for intergenerational stories of commun

Replay: The Kibitz - Unplug

Get ready to unplug - but don’t sign off yet because in celebration of the upcoming Global Day of Unplugging on March 3-4, 2023, we are revisiting the Unplug episode of T

Replay: In Quarantine with Steve Bodow - Cory Booker's Sure He's My Most Difficult Podcast Interview

To salute President’s Day, we are revisiting Season 2 Episode 3 of the In Quarantine with Steve Bodow podcast, originally aired in August 2020. Host Steve Bowdow talks wi

Replay: The Kibitz - Love

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we are revisiting Season 1, Episode 3 of The Kibitz podcast, originally aired in February 2016. Host Dan Crane asks, what is love, anyway? H

Replay: In Quarantine with Steve Bodow - Ronny Chieng Would Try Parking Garage Standup At This Point

To mark Chinese New Year, we are revisiting Season 2 Episode 6 of the In Quarantine with Steve Bodow podcast originally aired in September 2020. After five months quarant

Replay: The Kibitz - Transitions

To ring in 2023, we are revisiting Season 1 Episode 2 of The Kibitz Podcast, originally aired in January of 2016. In this episode, host Dan Crane focuses on transitions,

The Jewish Bizarre - The Strange World of Nasology and the Jewish Shnozz

In the mid 19th century, “Nasology'' emerged, a pseudoscientific belief that claimed that you could tell a person's personality type by the shape of their nose. Dr. Eddy

The Jewish Bizarre - Jewish Geniuses, Idiots, and the Greatest Mohel

Throughout history Jews have earned a reputation for being highly educated, after all, Jews have won 20% of the Nobel Prizes despite being only .18% of the world’s popula

The Jewish Bizarre - The Tonsil Riots and Other Jewish Uprisings

Dr. Eddy Portnoy and Dr. Tony Michels dive into the Tonsil Riots of 1906 - an uprising led by Jewish mothers in New York City after their kids were operated on without th

The Jewish Bizarre - Jewish Anarchists and the Yom Kippur Balls

In the late 1880s, young Eastern European Jewish immigrants had discovered anarchism, Marxism, and other such ideologies that had radicalized them against religion. In an

The Jewish Bizarre - Only Murders in the Shtetl

In December 1875, a Jewish woman named Sarah Alexander is found dead in a Brooklyn cornfield, her neck slashed. The investigation and murder trial sweeps the nation and f