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Chutzpod!

Chutzpod! is a frank and wide-ranging conversation on how to build a good life, using real-life quandaries and millennia-old Jewish wisdom. Each week, Rabbi Shira Stutman and journalist Hanna Rosin bring a Jewish lens to life"s toughest questions, asked by our listeners: Do I offer forgiveness to a friend who refuses to apologize? Am I right to be annoyed at all the service dogs on the plane with me? How do we work to heal this broken world? It"s a podcast for people of all or no faiths;

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38:22

Holy $#@%!

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2025/05/14

A listener tells us she loves the show – it’s funny, it’s wise (aww shucks), but oy such language! She says feh to the vulgar cursing and prompts Rabbi Shira and Hanna to wonder what Judaism says about “working blue.”Read about Nivul PehRead about Derech EretzSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Subscribe to ChutzstackFollow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on InstagramLearn about your ad choices:

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40:37

My Jewish Friend is a Murderer. Can We Stay In Touch?

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2025/05/07

A listener’s friend committed a heinous crime and is now in prison. She wonders if remaining friends and visiting him dishonors his victim’s memory. Tune in to hear Rabbi Shira and Hanna’s advice.Breaking down teshuvahJewish Views on Forgiveness: Are There Things That Can’t Be Forgiven? A Prayer for Those Not Ready to Forgive, by Rabbi Jill ZimmermanSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on

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54:12

Rabbi Shira in Conversation with David Brooks

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2025/04/30

Rabbi Shira shares her live conversation with New York Times' Opinion columnist David Brooks.* And on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) she talks about the importance of voting in the World Zionist Congress.*This event was hosted by Sixth & I, a center for arts, entertainment, ideas, and Jewish life in Washington DC.Vote in the World Zionist CongressListen to more conversations from Sixth & ISupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Subscribe to ChutzstackFollow

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40:52

I Never Taught My Kids About the Holocaust

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2025/04/23

On the eve of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Rabbi Shira asks a surprising question: Do we actually have to teach our kids about the Holocaust? (Spoiler Alert: She didn’t.)She looks back at her own choices about Holocaust education and finds a way forward.More resources for talking to your kids about the Holocaust and Antisemitism: Guidelines for Teaching The Holocaust Activities for Holocaust learningTalking to Children About Antisemitism A Very Brief Guide to AntisemitismSupport

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42:39

Bringing Your Gun to the Seder: Violence, Resistance...

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2025/04/16

As we celebrate Passover during the current climate, Rabbi Shira talks to Hanna about what Judaism says about violence, resistance and freedom. And they speak to a Jewish gun owner about his choice to protect himself. More on preventing harm and stumbling blocks in the TorahSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on InstagramLearn about your ad choices:

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40:58

Not in a Happy Passover Mood

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2025/04/09

Hanna asks the questions this week as we prepare for Passover. How do we tell and interpret the Passover story when it feels like we’re firmly stuck at the beginning of our own contemporary plight? Do we have the opportunity to have perhaps the most authentic seder any of us have had in our lived experience? Rabbi Shira has tips and wisdom for you as you prepare your own seders.Add to your own HaggadotAnd go out and learn!Support Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on

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39:55

Judge Jewdy

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2025/04/02

Are you Jewish enough? Too Jewish? Why are we Jews so judgy of one another? Rabbi Shira and Hanna receive a letter from a listener whose embrace of Judaism as an adult is making her less religious mother bristle. Read an example of Jewish judging in the TorahSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Subscribe to ChutzstackFollow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on InstagramLearn about your ad choices:

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29:24

Should I Join My Temple Board?

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2025/03/26

Ever wondered what an actual rabbi thinks about the temple board? What makes some temple communities work and others fail? Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a listener figure out whether or not to join her temple board.Read more about Jewish responsibility to the communityRead more about Jewish leadershipSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on InstagramLearn about

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36:20

The Jewish Way to a Good Life

Chutzpod! ·

2025/03/19

Hanna talks to Rabbi Shira about her new book The Jewish Way to a Good Life. She distills thousands of years of Jewish wisdom into practical, time-tested strategies for living a more meaningful life and reminds us: You don’t have to be Jewish to do Jewish. And she tells us how.Get Shira’s book!See Shira in conversation with David Brooks Read the story about crashing your rabbi's marital bedRead more about Shabbat and restSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Subscribe to

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40:15

Purim for Grown-Ups

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2025/03/12

Rabbi Shira makes a passionate plea to reclaim the holiday of Purim away from just the kids. But what does Jewish debauchery even look like? And why does it give Hanna the ick? Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk to “Sabbath Queen” Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, co-founder of LabShul, about his family story, drag and finding Jewish joy in dark times…even for us adults.See Sabbath QueenRead The Book of EstherSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on

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27:58

What's Up, Doc?

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2025/03/05

Rabbi Shira and Hanna read a letter from a listener who has been nagging her husband to go to the doctor for over a decade. What does Judaism say about being responsible for your partner? And are we commanded to be good patients?Read more Maimonides on medicineRead more on health care in JudaismRead about the commandments to take care of yourselfSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on

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36:41

WTF, God?!

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2025/02/26

We hear from a listener who spent a lifetime looking for love, hoping to become a parent. Now, single, childless and in his 70s he is asking WTF, God!?Read the Book of JobRead more about fate in JudaismSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Subscribe to ChutzstackFollow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on InstagramLearn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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39:10

Should You Give Your Kid a Super Jewy Name?

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2025/02/19

Rabbi Shira Stutman and Hanna Rosin are back with new episodes for Season 5 of Chutzpod. They kick things off by answering a question from a listener named Moshe. His mother insisted he receive a “super Jewy name,” but what does Judaism say about this? What makes a name Jewish? And can we just name our kids Tom, Dick or Harry?Read about Sarah naming IsaacRead about Leah naming her childrenRead about the Jewish concept of three namesSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact

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01:15

Coming Soon: Chutzpod Season 5

Chutzpod! ·

2025/02/05

Chutzpod is coming back with new episodes and new real-life questions February 19th! Rabbi Shira and Hanna will answer questions about "super-Jewy" names, Purim for grown-ups and WTF, God!? Subscribe to automatically get all new episodes.Support Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Subscribe to ChutzstackFollow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on InstagramLearn about your ad choices:

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33:53

All By Myself (Revisited)

Chutzpod! ·

2025/01/22

We'll be back with new episodes soon! But in the meantime, please enjoy this episode from last season. And keep your new questions coming! Email chutzpod@gmail.com if you need advice from Rabbi Shira and Hanna.After her wife of more than two decades passed suddenly, our listener is struggling how to spend time by herself again, and how to tell her wonderful, well-meaning community to give her space.Support Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on

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34:39

Long Held Secrets (Revisted)

Chutzpod! ·

2025/01/15

If your New Year's Resolution involves coming clean, this one's for you.There's something titillating about secrets in Judaism, but should we have them? Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a listener who wants to unburden a big secret with her father.Support Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on Instagram

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38:37

Not Enough Townies (Revisted)

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2025/01/08

A favorite from the archive!Comedian, podcaster and “Subculture Vulture” Moshe Kasher joins Rabbi Shira and Hanna to help a listener pull (or not pull) a geographic.More about Moshe KasherSupport Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on Instagram

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46:50

Introducing The Five Books

Chutzpod! ·

2025/01/01

Today, we’re sharing a special episode from our friends at The Five Books. Join host Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen as she speaks with Rabbi Benjamin Resnick about his debut novel, Next Stop, a work of speculative fiction that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through the lens of one family. He also discusses how the literature that’s meant the most to him throughout his life has also influenced his own work.Listen and follow The Five Books here.

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27:23

A Jewish Santa?! (Revisited)

Chutzpod! ·

2024/12/25

In between the movie and Chinese food, enjoy one of our favorite recent episodes.Is a Jewish Santa kosher? Rabbi Shira & Hanna Rosin ponder the ethics of Christmas cosplay in this very merry episode. Support Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on Instagram

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33:07

Spoiled Rotten (Revisited)

Chutzpod! ·

2024/12/18

As you're buying gift after gift for Hannukah, enjoy this gem from our archives.What to do when you want to teach your children gratitude, humility and the value of a dollar, but your mother’s “greatest joy in life” is spoiling them rotten. Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk about money myths, values and honoring thy father and mother. Support Chutzpod!Submit a questionContact Chutzpod!Follow Hanna on InstagramFollow Shira on InstagramFollow Shira on FacebookFollow Chutzpod on FacebookFollow

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