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- 39 minutes 55 secondsJudge Jewdy
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 Torah
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2 April 2025, 9:00 am - 29 minutes 24 secondsShould I Join My Temple Board?
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.
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices26 March 2025, 9:00 am - 36 minutes 20 secondsThe Jewish Way to a Good Life
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.
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See Shira in conversation with David Brooks
Read the story about crashing your rabbi's marital bed
Read more about Shabbat and rest
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices19 March 2025, 9:00 am - 40 minutes 15 secondsPurim for Grown-Ups
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.
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Read The Book of Esther
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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 medicine
Read more on health care in Judaism
Read about the commandments to take care of yourself
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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 Job
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices26 February 2025, 10:00 am - 39 minutes 10 secondsShould You Give Your Kid a Super Jewy Name?
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 Isaac
Read about Leah naming her children
Read about the Jewish concept of three names
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices19 February 2025, 9:00 am - 1 minute 15 secondsComing Soon: Chutzpod Season 5
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.
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices5 February 2025, 9:00 am - 33 minutes 53 secondsAll By Myself (Revisited)
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.
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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.
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices15 January 2025, 9:00 am - 38 minutes 37 secondsNot Enough Townies (Revisted)
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.
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