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The Frieda Vizel Podcast — 141 episodes

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1

The major battle that split Satmar in two | Yumi Lowy

2

Hasidic Rabbis to visit Trump | Reflections

3

Forty years of missionizing the faith before losing it | Jeff Parnell

4

My experience of Kiryas Joel boyhood to manhood | Shia Friedman

5

AI threatens the Hasidic community; a fiery speech by Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum

6

She had to cut off with the Hasidic world in order to return | Melissa Weisz

7

Alone but not lonely; inside this Hasidic woman’s world | Gita Katz

8

We had ONE date & got married! | Brach and Avi

9

Expelled from school and their world destroyed | Pessy Unstressing

10

The National Desertion Bureau | Eddy Portnoy

11

Jews and Poland; how we tell Polish Jewish history | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

12

At 83, this Jewish icon has a story to tell | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

13

What is anti-semitism? | Doran Shafrir

14

Hasidic Bubby shares their wedding traditions

15

Everyone is talking about Jews

16

She doesn't regret her comments | Satmar anti-zionist Pearl

17

When life is like weaving a quilt | Dovid Bashevkin

18

From Orthodox in Israel to an Academic studying the community | Yossi David

19

Inside an Amish school day | Lovina Zook

20

From Amish life to millions of followers on social media | Lovina Zook

21

Raw thoughts while sitting in my car in Kiryas Joel [on Mother's Day]

22

Riki Rose on the Frieda Vizel Podcast live! 5/5/26 5pm ET

23

Riki Rose and Frieda Vizel play nostalgic Hasidic children's games

24

Naomi Seidman on Frieda Vizel Podcast, LIVE 4/29/26 3pm ET

25

An amazing collection of Rare Talmuds! | Samuel Marks

26

Meet this INCREDIBLE young Jewish collector | Samuel Marks

27

She left Hasidic Boro Park | Melissa Weisz's story

28

Being a lefty lesbian Jewish comic in 2026 is crazy | Judy Gold

29

Hasidic Jews once thrived in Poland | Historian Glenn Dynner

30

From the oldest Hagaddahs to a Hasidic sedar that ends 4am | David Akerman, Yiddishkeit

31

My Hasidic Passover Memories

32

Baily prepares for Passover [comedian Leah Forster]

33

"My experience as a Pediatric Pulminologist with the Hasidic population" | Dr. Lynne Quittel

34

From the hospital bedside

35

Just a messenger? A Jewish interpreter at international organizations

36

From a Soviet upbringing to Jewish identity | Dan’s story

37

Mayor Mamdani and the Jews | Jacob Kornbluh

38

The beloved bubby answers your questions | Pearl from Williamsburg

39

Living and leaving Jehova's Witness | Miriam Vidal

40

Reading your comments and more stories, kinderlech #3

41

Surviving the Bondi Beach terror attack | Rabbi Yosef Eichenblatt

42

"Jewish children don't fight!" | 1977 Yiddish reader story #2

43

The Wedding Night documentary | Rachel Elitzur

44

A Jehova's Witness church INSIDE the Jewish village Kiryas Joel

45

The kinds of industries Hasidic Jews work in

46

Watching and reacting to the Tyler Oliveria viral video on Kiryas Joel

47

An eye-opening 1977 Yiddish book of female socialization #1

48

The original dissidents of Kiryas Joel | Michael Sussman

49

The oral histories of Bukharian Jews | Abe and Mazal

50

My most candid conversation yet | On the Avrum Rosenzweig show

51

Laughing through cancer | Leah Forster

52

Bonus, livestream: Why I posted and then pulled the video of the bride dancing

53

Bonus, livestream: We Had Never Touched. Then Came Our Wedding Night. | Rachel Elitzur Opdoc discussion

54

Jewish law on abortion and inferitily | Pt 2 R' Ysoscher Katz

55

Jewish law on contraception & masturbation | Pt 1 R' Ysoscher Katz

56

The power of Yiddish children's stories to shape our world | Miriam Udel

57

The Get / My divorce 💔

58

Ex-Hasidic star Riki Rose faces her past in Williamsburg

59

Yom Kippur attack, antisemitism in the UK, more | Izzy Posen

60

Jews, magic, and the kosher arts | Dovy the Magician

61

From Berlin to Satmar Williamsburg | 95 year old Nelly Grussgott

62

Hasidic women fight to form a female EMS | Paula Eiselt

63

Are both sides condemned to kill each other forever? | Rabbi Mayer Schiller

64

On Yiddish, Suicide and more | Mattel from Multisingual

65

Grab your popcorn, we're talking Jewish movies | David Akerman

66

Should Jews return to blood soaked Poland? | Naomi Seidman

67

Hasidic women’s modesty and clothing traditions | Pearl

68

"I never felt female and didn't fit in that world" | Naomi Seidman

69

The Rebbitzen reveals her identity | Danielle Jacobs

70

Why I left activism for Hasidic education | Naftuli Moster

71

Workout culture coming to the Ultra Orthodox world | Shmilly Feldman

72

What it's like to grow up in Kiryas Joel | An essay by Frieda Vizel

73

Are Jews allowed to fight? | a controversial discussion with anti-Zionist Hasidic woman Pearl

74

Living on the border and creating the hit TV show Shtisel | Yehonatan Indursky

75

What it was like to grow up Amish | Martha Ross

76

Reading the Yiddish children's version of the Book of Exodus

77

Bonus: music video 'Mein Kind' referenced in my essay on the stories we tell

78

Unorthodox vs the OTHER story | How we talk about people who leave insular societies

79

A visually impaired Hasidic woman tells her story | Rochel Bodek

80

A historian's warning | Anna Shternshis

81

A revolution in Yiddish arts & theater by Hasidim | Ari Abromowitz

82

I grew up in Kiryas Joel and embraced plant medicine

83

"I craved religion and even tried Christianity" | In Conversation with comedian Antonia Lassar

84

🚨 For women, girls, AND men and boys | In conversation with Jessica Roda

85

"I risk everything when speaking out as a woman in Kiryas Joel" | Exclusive interview with Fradel Neuman

86

Messiah Energy and Wholesome Comedy | Interview with Modi Rosenfeld

87

My Chanukah Memories | Reading: Circumcised Chanukah Gifts

88

Sex ed in the Hasidic community | A Hasidic grooms receives the birds and the bees talk

89

The intersection of Sex and Piety | In Conversation with Intimacy Coach Peggy Greenfield

90

A battle for land between Hasidim and their neighbors | In conversation with Jesse Sweet

91

The Talmud as a Door | In Conversation with Miriam Anzovin

92

A Jew from today, but from yesterday... | In Conversation with Lea Kalisch

93

Reflections a year after October 7th; stream of consciousness sharing

94

Can we call her a Hasidic feminist? | Interview with Hasidic Influencer Raizy Fried

95

The complicated relationship between animals and Orthodox Jews | discussing myths with Mendel Hersh Paneth

96

When one half of a town turns on the other | Interview with Director Igor Golyak

97

What life is like for a Hasidic lady in the Catskills today | With comedian Leah Forster

98

A Bungalow Colony for Survivors I In Conversation with Director Andrew Jacobs

99

He returned to live in the most insular Israeli enclave after leaving it | Tuvia Tenonbom Interview

100

"No one had a grandfather" | Gita recounts the Hasidic community after the holocaust

101

"We hid the piano from my Hasidic father" | The Singer Riki Rose shares her story

102

Yiddish versus Hebrew the battle of two Jewish languages | In Conversation with Eddy Portnoy

103

Why do we love to talk about Cults? | In Conversation with Guinevere Turner

104

The Chained Wife / the Jewish Aguna Crisis | In Conversation with Keshet Starr

105

The Satmar Rebbe's Life and Controversial Anti-Zionism | In Conversation with Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

106

What are Hasidic Jewish SECTS?

107

Am I disrespectful?

108

The Secret Stories of Hidden Heretics | In Conversation with Ayala Fader

109

Do Hasidic Jews Vaccinate? | Dr Howard Rosman, Pediatrician to Hasidic Community, in Conversation

110

"The Get" A Personal Essay

111

Satmar versus Naturei Karte's antizionism (audio-only)

112

"My Story of Growing Up and Leaving Hasidism" | In Conversation with Eli Benedict

113

Rules for Hasidic Girls Issued by Satmar School, Part 2

114

Understanding Orthodox Jewish Anti-Zionism | In Conversation with David Biale

115

Yossi Desser Musical Guest Discussion & Live Performance of YomTov Ehrlich, Belz, more

116

Top Hasidic Music Videos - 16 Selections

117

Two Dates and a Wedding - Hasidic Matchmaking Customs

118

Why do Hasidic Women SHAVE their heads?

119

"My Childhood as a Hasidic Boy" | In Conversation with Izzy Posen

120

Rules for Hasidic Girls Issued by Satmar School, Part 1

121

The Truth About Hasidic Jews and the Internet | A Documentary

122

An Orthodox Female Comedian | In Conversation with Leah Forster

123

Eli Benedict on Life in Israel Since the Gruesome Attacks

124

What Hasidic Boys Learn | In Conversation with Moshe Krakowski

125

The History of Hasidism | In Conversation with David Biale on "Hasidism, A New History"

126

More Q&A with the Hasidic Housewife PEARL

127

The Famous PEARL Answers Your Questions

128

Hasidim, Ex-Hasidim and Dogs | In Conversation with Naomi Seidman

129

Do Ex-Hasidim Get Shunned? | In Conversation with Zalman Newfield

130

In Conversation with Steve Milligan, My Youtube Channel's Editor

131

"Why I joined the Hasidic community" | The story of Sara Braun

132

Hasidic Boys' Education Controversy | In Conversation with Eli Spitzer

133

In Conversation with Steven Nolt on Amish Society

134

In Conversation on "Heretic in the House" with Naomi Seidman

135

In conversation with Gerry Albarelli, former Hasidic boys' English teacher

136

A special visit to Williamsburg with writer and former resident Phillip Lopate

137

Izzy Posen and Frieda Vizel live zoom conversation on Post-Haredi life, identity and relations

138

Interview with Harry Weiss, former Williamsburg resident

139

Shpanier Arbet / Jewish garment art with Elena Solomon

140

In Conversation with Nathaniel Deutsch, Co-author of 'A Fortress in Brooklyn'

141

Interview with Nelly Grussgott on post-war Williamsburg, Brooklyn