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The Frieda Vizel Podcast

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! :)Become a supporter of this podcast:

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49:37

"I risk everything when speaking out as a woman in...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2025/01/26

Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/HoTzWaF7dU8So many stories about the Hasidic Jews of the village of Kiryas Joel come from people who have left it. Or, often it will come from village official PR people who tell a very rosy story. In this interview, we get an exclusive peak into an everyday woman walking an exceptional line; risking everything in her community to express her voice. Fradel's story is compelling, fascinating and yet to get very interesting as she finds her place in

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39:47

Messiah Energy and Wholesome Comedy | Interview with...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2025/01/19

Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/dlp7-4Aq1tMModi Rosenfeld is a brilliant and wonderful Jewish comedian whose work I've long been a huge fan of. He is able to talk to any audience, a skill that few have. It's incredible to me that his audience spans from the very secular to the very religious, including Hasidic Jews, which is part of his bit. In my latest interview I talk to Modi for a bit of a behind the scenes discussion about his amazing work. Check out Modi here on Youtube for

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20:39

My Chanukah Memories | Reading: Circumcised Chanukah...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/12/29

Video link: https://youtu.be/J1XGAMK4wngHappy Chanukah! This Chanukah I want to share some of my childhood memories by reading to you an unpublished essay about my childhood memories of Chanukah in the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel. Wishing all who celebrate the holidays very happy holidays!

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36:31

Sex ed in the Hasidic community | A Hasidic grooms...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/11/24

Video version of this posting: https://youtu.be/Gk917OpgS_QIt is the tradition that before a Hasidic young man gets married, he attends a private session with an older rabbi who guides him in matters of sex and intimacy. Since sex is not a topic openly discussed in this society as it is considered immodest, this one lesson is potentially the first time the young groom learns about sex and the opposite gender. That one lesson could be beautiful, painful, shocking, exhilarating, and so many other

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63:16

The intersection of Sex and Piety | In Conversation...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/11/23

Video version here: https://youtu.be/AUdw8W71Gv8*Sensitive content warning. This conversation contains adult themes.*Peggy Greenfield is a certified relationship and intimacy coach who grew up in the Satmar Hasidic community of Williamsburg, and now serves this population. Peggy is not in the community herself anymore, which gives her a unique vantage point from which to tackle challenges of sex and imtimacy, topics that are difficult and complicated anywhere, but which pose a unique challenge in a

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52:09

A battle for land between Hasidim and their neighbors...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/11/03

Video link: https://youtu.be/Ovl9HbcTuUIThis is a discussion about the documentary 'City of Joel', with the filmmaker Jesse Sweet. It's a documentary about a turf war in the insular Hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel. Kiryas Joel is a Satmar village in Orange County New York, and it's where I lived for the first twenty-five years of my life. The documentary includes amazing footage of the village I grew up in, with shots of several very close male contacts. It was a fun experience to watch it and to

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50:23

The Talmud as a Door | In Conversation with Miriam...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/10/26

Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/vbwZcttuNOQMiriam Anzovin is a Jewish content creator who does videos about the Talmud, Jewish lore reactions and even holiday themed makeup tutorials. She is a warm, funny and witty Jewish woman and I find a friend in her in the content creation journey. Join me for a discussion with the wonderful Miriam about her background, about her relationship to her orthodox mother, about her creative process, about trolls and the Talmud and so much

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68:50

A Jew from today, but from yesterday... | In...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/10/12

Video version of this interview here: https://youtu.be/5-RsTIrIbmoLea Kalisch has a dream to sing at the Superbowl, in Yiddish, with a shtreimel. She is a singer of many genres, but some of her Yiddish songs reflect a longing for a simple, religious world. "I am a shtetel Neshama (soul), a Jew from yesterday. I should have been a fruma, my hashtag is 'oyvey'." We hear so many stories of people from the religious community longing for the secular world, what does it mean to grow up secular and

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33:35

Reflections a year after October 7th; stream of...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/10/08

Youtube video: https://youtu.be/aTkJpC3h7cg

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51:08

Can we call her a Hasidic feminist? | Interview with...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/10/08

Join me for an interview with the Hasidic Yiddish influencer Raizy Fried. Please check out the youtube version of this video here:https://youtu.be/oycLsS4ulygIn my work documenting the Hasidic community, I've gone to great lengths to bring out of the shadows the story of women in this world and their voices. It has been incredibly difficult, as much of the female sphere is modesty and behind a curtain. Still, I've felt it's important to share this world with you all, as I feel that otherwise, the

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15:39

The complicated relationship between animals and...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/09/29

Link to video version of this conversation:https://youtu.be/O-ov6vTAAqQ?si=uqY1x8Yt-8woN-TDIn this video I talk to Hasidic Jew Rabbi Mendel Hersh Paneth about the community's complicated relationship to animals. People's fear of dogs, the way that animals are slaughtered for kosher purposes and the ritual of kapores. Stay tuned for additional discussions with Rabbi MH Paneth.

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41:27

When one half of a town turns on the other |...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/09/08

*Note: the play discussed here contains violence*For the video version of this interview see here.In this long-form interview, I talk to theater director Igor Goylak about a powerful production titled 'Our Class'. It's a play that tackles timely themes of the human capacity for evil, antisemitism, and the long arc of history. I saw the play in Brooklyn and it's now playing in Manhattan. Igor is a fellow Fellow at the Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Program Fall 2024 cohort.**For tickets see the

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58:08

What life is like for a Hasidic lady in the Catskills...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/08/04

For YouTube version see here: https://youtu.be/DQgG_PzxazgBaily is a character of a Hasidic woman who spends her summers in the bungalow colonies in upstate New York. In this episode, she shares the trials and tribulations of the experience. This segment is comedy, in the great tradition of the Catskills being a place for comedy. Leah Forster is a brilliant comedian who has spent years entertaining Hasidic women before she left the fold and pivoted to perform for a larger audience.Check out my other

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53:47

A Bungalow Colony for Survivors I In Conversation...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/07/21

Andrew Jacobs directed the beautiful documentary 'Four Seasons Lodge' about holocaust survivors who spent every summer in the Catskills in a bungalow colony, connecting and loving life. The documentary follows them during their last years, as they are in their 80s, navigating the end of their time together. They are full of laughter, love, humor, sorrow, and memories of the horrors they went through. When I talked to Jacobs about his work on the documentary, and then so many of the subjects passing

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77:31

He returned to live in the most insular Israeli...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/06/30

Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/311WBTY7mrsTuvia Tenonbom is a character! He grew up in the Haredi enclave of Bnei Brak, which I've introduced you to in another video. He left the fold in his early twenties and became a bestselling author and journalist in Germany - with oft-hilarious, oft-controversial views. During covid, he was sent on an assignment to the insular Haredi enclaves of Israel, to the world of his childhood, to write about the experience. He was warned by many

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54:16

"No one had a grandfather" | Gita recounts the...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/06/16

Video interview: https://youtu.be/2saQ0LEwZXQGita Katz is a larger-than-life character. I got to know her through Pearl, the famous Hasidic woman whom I have had the honor of having on this program before. In this interview, she shares what it was like to grow up in Hasidic Williamsburg in the shadow of the Holocaust.

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96:56

"We hid the piano from my Hasidic father" | The...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/06/02

For the video version of this segment, click here: https://youtu.be/jiE9cTn6Yi0Riki Rose grew up in Hasidic Williamsburg, in a very conservative family. From when she was young, she had that star celebrity quality to her. But as a woman, her ability to fully express her talents was significantly limited by the religious laws on Kol Isha, which prohibits women from performing to male audiences. Still, Riki's life has been full of joys, good humor, and great moments to shine. In this long-form

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78:03

Yiddish versus Hebrew the battle of two Jewish...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/05/08

Video version of this segment: https://youtu.be/tq8y3KkAWTkAs many of you know, my first language is Yiddish. It is the language of the Satmar Hasidic community I come from. The story of why I grew up speaking Yiddish, and not Hebrew, is intimately tied to the story of the birth of Israel, Zionism and Jewish language. And so, today I want to delve into the history of how two Jewish languages came to represent contrasting Jewish ideologies. I was inspired to do this segment after visiting the

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80:21

Why do we love to talk about Cults? | In Conversation...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/04/06

For the video version of this discussion, see here: https://youtu.be/S2LMqtNjg6cThe Hasidic community has been the subject of great, lurid fascination. People love to hear the stories of its unusual customs and darker sides. I see this fascination as part of a larger fascination with subcultures and cults. For instance, Youtube is full of channels that tell ex-Hasidic, ex-Mormon, ex-Amish and ex-Cult stories and these videos draw hundreds of thousands of views. Guinevere Turner grew up in a cult. In

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76:13

The Chained Wife / the Jewish Aguna Crisis | In...

The Frieda Vizel Podcast ·

2024/03/17

Video version of this segment here: https://youtu.be/_H1hjrS2MLoA chained wife is a woman who is chained to a man in marriage, even after the relationship ends. This can happen in Jewish marriages when one partner refuses to give or accept the Get, the religious divorce. Malky is a Hasidic woman in Kiryas Joel who has been a chained wife for 4 years. In recent weeks the activist Flatbush Girl has spearheaded a campaign to pressure Malky’s husband to give a Get, by protesting in the strict and

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