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! :)
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Looking back at my life 20 years ago, today
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Twenty years ago today, I created a pseudonym for myself: Shpitzle Shtrimpkind. A 21-year-old Hasidic mother of a little baby boy, hiding furiously behind my alias. My fi
Oct 23 1 h 18 min
"Only girls allowed", making Orthodox women's movies | Malky Weingarten
video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/9BwmSQ0Vwsk
Imagine a world where there are only women! That's the world of the filmmaker Malky Weingarten. Malky makes movi
Oct 18 56 min
Hasidic sects and the question "Who will lead?" | Samuel Heilman
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/Bt0V4N9lGfc
Hasidic groups are led by Rebbes. I come from the Satmar sect, and our rebbe was Moses Teitelbaum. What happened
Oct 11 55 min
My experience as a Hasidic Jew with the health world | Interview by Dr. Archelle
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/guXQwZ9h_5U
Dr Archelle from the podcast "Speak Up for Your Health" interviews youtuber Frieda Vizel about her experience
Sep 28 1 h 05 min
13 differences between SATMAR and CHABAD Jews
Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/LK2b0mAYKqA
I'm tired of big youtubers conflating all Hasidic groups as one.
They are so different.
The community in Crow
Sep 20 26 min
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
Sep 6 1 h 13 min
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
Sep 2 16 min
Forty years of missionizing the faith before losing it | Jeff Parnell
Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/Yy4Tzw-UAUc
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Aug 30 39 min
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
Aug 23 34 min
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
Aug 16 37 min
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
Aug 9 54 min
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
Aug 2 33 min
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
Jul 26 41 min
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
Jul 19 51 min
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
Jul 12 52 min
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
Jul 8 15 min
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,
Jul 5 54 min
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
Jun 28 1 h 12 min
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
Jun 21 1 h 13 min
Everyone is talking about Jews
Video link to this monologue: https://youtu.be/A1aOTCsYQfM
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Jun 17 43 min
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A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.
Leaving an insular community and then providing a sympathetic look into it requires a rare combination of thick skin & kind heart. Vizel is a generous interviewer of her subjects, and has inspired me to listen with a more open mind to her interviewees, especially those whose religious or political outlook differs significantly from my own. That by itself would be valuable, but she also includes unique insights and personal narrative that are not available elsewhere.
EtzChaim · Dec 2025
Frieda Vizel is informed by her life experiences and delivers insights into the community in a fair and kind manner. She is thoughtful in her approach of telling the story of this community.
Ms Vizel’s kind heart and thoughtful intelligence delivers a podcast that will delight and inform the listener.
moparfan176 · Jul 2024
Every episode informed, on-point, often humorous, often serious and moving with interviewer Frieda Vizel’s knowledgeable, gentle and probing interview style. My favorite podcast! Highly recommend. A+++
ZelMal · Feb 2024
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