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Ask a Jew

Yael Bar tur, secular sinner, and Chaya Leah Sufrin, pious Haredi, ask each other the hard questions, from Torah to Tinder askajew.substack.com

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72:32

Viva La Revolution of Common Sense With Scott Jennings

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2025/11/25

Happy Thanksgiving! Today on Ask A Jew, CNN Political Contributor and author of the new book “A Revolution of Common Sense: How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and Fought for Western Civilization”, Scott Jennings!.You know Scott as the “spokesperson for common sense” on the CNN panel, and may recognize him as the guy who wore the hostage pin every day for two years on air, along with his progressive BFF Van Jones. (Scott, tell Van Chaya Leah says “hey”). He’s also a writer, a veteran of national

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59:53

Live From the Kosher Table - With Periel Aschenbrand

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2025/11/18

Periel Aschenbrand is a writer, comedian, author, and producer of the Comedy Cellar podcast “Live From the Table”. We discuss her life in comedy, post-October 7th stand up, and the irony of hiding in a baker’s oven during the holocaust. Find Periel on Instagram, catch her show “Hysterical” at the West Side Comedy Club. and check out her clothing line Henrietta, a tribue to an OG Jewish female hero.Do you love Ask A Jew? Do you at least like us? If so, we have exciting news! Stay tuned on Substack

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60:36

Zohran Mamdani is Making us Fat

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2025/11/10

Join the conversation on Substack askajew.substack.comHello from NYC, where everything is going juuuussstttt grrreeaaat. Don’t worry though, we’ll protect you.What really was great was our Shabbat dinner with our friends at the Six Street Synagogue! About 60 of you showed up to eat, drink, cry, laugh and drink some more. It was truly uplifting and fun to meet everyone, we really could all use some community now. Special shout out to those of you who came alone and left with many new friends. Please

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70:58

Standing Up to the "Woke Right" - with The Babylon...

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2025/11/03

Need a break from the NYC mayoral race and the left-wing antisemitism of Zohran Mamdani? Let’s dive into the refreshing world of right-wing antisemitism!See you this Friday at Ask A Jew’s NYC Shabbat Dinner! Tickets Here. No, you don’t need to be Jewish to join!This week we sat down with Seth Dillon, CEO of the conservative Christian satire website, The Babylon Bee. You may have read his recent essay The Foolishness of “No Enemies to the Right” in The Free Press, in which he said: What the radical

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54:22

Eat, Pray, Blah

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2025/10/29

Join us November 7th in NYC for a Shabbat dinner!! Tickets here! There will be food, there will be alcohol, there will be listeners just like you. Tickets are limited.In this solo-pod, we recommend taking smartphones away from your kids and giving them cigarettes instead, ask ourseleves if we are crying wolf about Mamdani (no), and discuss what Israeli Jews and diaspora Jews should learn from each other.As I was typing this, I just heard of the passing of the NYPD’s Chaplain, Chief Chaplain Rabbi

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54:46

Untangling Israeli Politics - with Amit Segal

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2025/10/20

You may recognize journalist Amit Segal from Dan Senor’s “Call Me Back” podcast, or his contributions to The Free Press. Israelis know him as Channel 12’s Chief Political Correspondent, co-host of our local version of “Meet the Press”, and author of the newly-translated bestseller: “A Call at 4 AM: Thirteen Prime Ministers and the Crucial Decisions that Shaped Israeli Politics”. He also publishes the wildly succesful and very useful daily newsletter “It’s Noon in Israel”.We discuss the madness of

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71:05

Cautious Euphoria

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2025/10/12

More photos and videos on askajew.substack.comGood morning from a different Israel,Something feels lighter in the air today. It’s been this way since I landed yesterday and probably started Wednesday evening when Trump announced a deal had been reached to release all remaining hostages and end the war. Israelis managed to not get their hopes up for about 30 seconds, but the joy in the faces of the hostage families – a light we had never seen before – was too infectious. If I could describe the mood

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63:36

The Jews are Tired Y'all

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2025/10/06

Hi everyone,It’s a week of hope, despair, commemoration and as usual, unbridled rage. We caught up Friday to cover the many events of the last few weeks. Also we recorded this before the announcement of the Trump plan, sorry. Hard to keep up with the madness of the times.Want to see photos? Hear about special events? Subscribe on Substack askajew.substack.comAlso:* Chaya Leah apologizes, and not to me.* Yom Kippur recap* Megyn Kelly chat - because you are reuired by law to discuss this if you have a

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72:00

Podhoretz Save America

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2025/09/22

Shana Tova from Chaya Leah’s kitchen table! It is not even 8am, and she already peeled 400 apples, made 200 matza balls, and skinned 3 chickens. I am sitting here trying to stay out of the way while working on our business aka this podcast. It’s very trad-wife. Check out CL’s resolutions and photos on our substack and see you in 5786!John Podhoretz is the editor of Commentary Magazine and co-host of the wildly popular Commentary Podcast, which we should definitely be on so write them about it. In

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84:19

We Don't Get Us - With Sarah Hurwitz

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2025/09/10

Sarah Hurwitz served as a White House speechwriter from 2009 to 2017, first as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama and then as head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama. She’s with us to discuss her new brilliant book: As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story From Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us, which is a must-read for every Jew who often has mixed feelings about their faith (not that there is anyone like that), as well as non-Jews who want to understand us weirdos better

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71:33

Stop It.

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2025/09/03

We are happy to welcome author, cultural critic, and social media explainer Leigh Stein to Ask A Jew today! We discuss her new novel, If You’re Seeing This, It’s Meant for You — a modern-day gothic page-turner set in a Los Angeles social media influencer hype house (if you don’t know what a hype house is, even more of a reason to tune in!)We discuss whether or not the internet is real life, what Leigh learned from being a student of TikTok, and the new controverial best-seller “Let Them”, as well as

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66:56

Hard Boiled Eggs and Softly Held Opinions

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2025/08/27

A long overdue solo awaits for those who dare! First of all we apologize for the lack of Taylor/Travis content here, we recorded this a few days ago before the breaking news. We hope you can still enjoy this discussion that covers:* ICE and immigration (in the first, like, 30 seconds)* Our nonexistent beef with The Commentary podcast* Unpopular opinions (Matcha and musicals?)* The entirety of the episode from around minute 11 is about hard boiled eggs* Oh wait now there’s a rocket attack on Tel

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66:08

Cry Me a River to the Sea

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2025/08/19

Shabbos Kestenbaum is probably the most famous Jewish Harvard grad since Natalie Portman. You may know him as a former Bernie Bro and divinity student who went on to sue Harvard for discrimination, speak at the Republican National Convention, and accompany President Trump to the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. We talk about what to do with all this sweet, sweet Jewish money, where Israel goes wrong on messaging, what Shabbos saw at the Gaza humanitarian aid crossing, and much more.Also:* Whats’s

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80:45

Accidental antisemitism

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2025/08/12

This week we welcome one of our favorite journaists of the moment, Olivia Reingold of The Free Press!We discuss her Jewish roots, atheism, how she went from an NPR fangirl to working for (gasp!) Bari Weiss, what’s wrong with Gen Z, accidental antisemitism, reading each and every one of Zohran Mamdani’s tweets, Mahmoud Khalil, and at the end we get into a very heated argument about…podiatrists. That said, the most controversial thing Olivia says is that she watches gaming playthrough youtubes.You can

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77:01

Hey Jewish People!! You're OK

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2025/07/31

We are so excited to have the one and only Babka King, Chris Cares None with us!If you haven’t seen Chris’s videos on Instagram and TikTok where he reviews foods from different ethnicities, with some special love to Babka and Rugelach, why are you even still here? MORE VIDEOS https://askajew.substack.com/Chris rose to fame after his Jewish food reviews attracted both love and hate, and let us tell you - do not throw hate at this guy unless you’re ready to be showered with LOVE. We talk about social

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51:45

Unconditional Love on the Spectrum

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2025/07/27

Happy Sunday and a blessed week to everyone, except Mandy Patinkin. In this catch-up we talk about the unfolding situation in Gaza (spoiler: some healthy disagreement!), the meaning of being able to criticize someone you love, toothaches and heartaches.Also:You don’t hate the UN enoughSome Astronomer talk…sorry if no one cares anymore. But have you seen this great response they put out?? .Lena Dunham is an awful, awful geniusJonah and the Whale and BuddhismA spotify recommendationAn evergreen

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80:22

Helen Lewis Spills the Tea

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2025/07/17

Helen Lewis is a big deal y’all, and yes we’d be saying that even if she didn’t have a British accent. She’s a staff writer at The Atlantic, author of the new book The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea , as well as Difficult Women: An Imperfect History of Feminism. She has written and presented several BBC (ooh!) Radio shows including "The New Gurus"and our personal favorite, "Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat. You can also find her right here on Substack, at Helen Lewis. Good for the

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52:43

Group Therapy with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman

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2025/07/10

Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive scientist, podcaster, mentalist and author of 11 (!!) books. We had him on to talk about his latest “Rise Above: Overcome a Victim Mindset, Empower Yourself, and Realize Your Full Potential, and were diagnosed with Vulnerable Narcissm (Yael) and being a Neurotic Jew (CL). We also mocked our negative self-talk, evaluated the usefuleness of self-deprecating humor, and learned about Dr. Scott’s attempt to bring peace to the Columbia campus where he teaches. Read

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46:03

Battle of the Moms

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2025/07/03

Bethany Mandel is the co-author of the bestseller “Stolen Youth” (with former guest Karol Markowicz!) and blogger/podcaster at The Mom Wars. We recorded this one a little while ago (there’s been an entire war in between) so excuse our tardiness. We talk conversion, birthing 6 kids at home (well, one in a car), homeschooling and much more. Enjoy!Also:* How Bethany chose Judaism at the ripe age of seven. Matza ball, books and no Jesus? I’m in.* The bad, bad Rabbi that converted Bethany.* Bethany’s

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64:54

The Reverse Exodus Kindertransport Spring Break...

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2025/06/23

Chaya Leah is back from Israel, and boy does she have a story to tell! It has everything: bombs, planes, boats, sandwiches, and horny birthright kids. We’re so happy she’s home safe, and hope that her grandchildren will retell her story to the next generations. You can also read her testimony in this Times of Israel piece.As promised, here is a link to the Chabad in Cyprus and the Chabad in Germany, if you want to pay them back for all the food, and in general just thank them for their kindness

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