The Frieda Vizel Podcast

The major battle that split Satmar in two | Yumi Lowy

video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/NtFI3NL4dFE?si=zOhqSNq6aijFxcc4 In September 2026, the Satmar community experienced a major historic event. After decades

Hasidic Rabbis to visit Trump | Reflections

Video link to this podcast: https://youtu.be/_UjXlnOVdug In September 2026, news broke that Hasidic Rabbis will meet with president Trump. This was revealed when the Sat

Forty years of missionizing the faith before losing it | Jeff Parnell

Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/Yy4Tzw-UAUc Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-frieda-vizel-podcast--5824414/support

My experience of Kiryas Joel boyhood to manhood | Shia Friedman

Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/vEkKjydfG3g The Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel is an unusual community in the state of New York. It's all Hasidic, very in

AI threatens the Hasidic community; a fiery speech by Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum

Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/vUhamjWR_vA In this video, I provide a translation and analysis of a powerful Yiddish speech by the Grand Rabbi of the Satma

She had to cut off with the Hasidic world in order to return | Melissa Weisz

Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/mW6PTwWUVAU Melissa Weisz grew up in Hasidic, Yiddish-speaking Boro Park and left the fold well before the OTD phenomenon be

Alone but not lonely; inside this Hasidic woman’s world | Gita Katz

Video link: https://youtu.be/xBBW-b4yNfw Gita got married, like many Hasidic Williamsburg girls did. In an arranged match, when she was not yet twenty. Her marriage last

We had ONE date & got married! | Brach and Avi

Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/LV99eySK-24 Fifteen years after their marriage was arranged, a couple reflects on their lives together. They met once for

Expelled from school and their world destroyed | Pessy Unstressing

Link to video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/7CBHWJwmAJI Many people know Pessy from her popular Yiddish comedy videos, where she lovingly and hilariously c

The National Desertion Bureau | Eddy Portnoy

Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/ixZOxV5BuCI Eddy Portnoy is back by popular demand, after our wonderful discussion on the history of Yiddish language. Eddy

Jews and Poland; how we tell Polish Jewish history | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Video link to this conversation: https://youtu.be/KCS9vAundms How do you tell the history of Jews in Poland? Why is there so much debate about this from Polish people? I

At 83, this Jewish icon has a story to tell | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Video link: https://youtu.be/qdQi26lBQ7Q Today I have the great honor and pleasure of speaking with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a renowned scholar of Jewish culture,

What is anti-semitism? | Doran Shafrir

Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/gwCyNjr2vU0 Today I am talking to Doran from the channel  @TheEasyWayDMS  about philosophical subjects. What is antisemitism

Hasidic Bubby shares their wedding traditions

Video link to this conversation: https://youtu.be/uQ8YqHA_id8 📸 Videography: Upperdeck Film / https://www.instagram.com/upperdeck_film/  ✂️ Edited: Lee Kupac / @mayo.nap

Everyone is talking about Jews

Video link to this monologue: https://youtu.be/A1aOTCsYQfM Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-frieda-vizel-podcast--5824414/support

She doesn't regret her comments | Satmar anti-zionist Pearl

Video link to this conversation: https://youtu.be/92Q4LAxh_Ug A year ago, Pearl sparked one of the most heated discussions on this channel. As a Satmar Hasidic woman, sh

When life is like weaving a quilt | Dovid Bashevkin

Link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/aeVekOqP7-Y The tables have turned! The wonderful, renowned Orthodox Jewish podcaster Dovid Bashevkin, host of 18

From Orthodox in Israel to an Academic studying the community | Yossi David

Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/fV8LeAiQQe8 Join us for an insightful conversation with Dr. Yossi David, a leading researcher in social biases, migration

Inside an Amish school day | Lovina Zook

Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/vUl5DjWhCBk Lovina's personal story: https://youtu.be/GHF0lQS2CHs Former Swartzentruber Amish teacher Lovina Zook takes u

From Amish life to millions of followers on social media | Lovina Zook

Link to the video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/GHF0lQS2CHs Lovina Zook, a former Swartzentruber Amish woman who left her community at age 18 with only $24 t