Richie Greenberg Intro Trailer

I'm Richie Greenberg and this is my new podcast, it's A Shanda! I was born in Queens, New York, and when I was a couple of years old, my family moved to Long Island, and that's where I was raised. And when I was about 21 years old, I moved west to Los Angeles. And that's where I lived for a while, in Orange County, and I studied in college there. Then by the mid 1980s, I moved to Israel. I lived on a kibbutz, so I know quite a bit about the mindset and the operations of a kibbutz in Israel. I lived there. Then moved over towards Tel Aviv into a suburb of Tel Aviv and worked in a large city that was just outside of Tel Aviv in Ramat Gan. So, after returning back to America, back to California, a couple of years, I studied more in college, and then, moved up here to San Francisco in 2001. So I've been here now for about 25 years. I love it here in San Francisco. When I do go to pray, and I'm very involved with the Jewish community, the observant Jewish community, and I pray in Sephardic style. Sephardic synagogues, and that's mostly because of my experience when I was living in Israel. It's something that I really, really connected with the Sephardic traditions. So, about me besides that is, if you know, I am very involved with politics. I write for a couple of local and national organizations and newspapers. I am a critic, and I do opinion pieces on politics, on culture, on issues that are affecting San Francisco and California, and a little bit about the United States here nationally as well. So, this podcast is going to be a very interesting podcast, because I also just completed, last month, September 2026, a very intensive one-year, program. It's a, it's a smicha program, rabbinic studies level in Isser Veheter, that is the baseline in Jewish law, Jewish halakha, it has to do with kashrut, kosher laws. So, I completed that, I got my certificate, and now I'm launching this podcast, and what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be taking together Jewish law, Jewish halakha. A Jewish perspective, and I'm going to be talking about the issues here in San Francisco specifically from a Jewish perspective. And I think that you're going to really enjoy this, it's going to be pretty intense at times, it's going to be, analysis, and, I'm really happy to have you with me.