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The Frieda Vizel Podcast — 134 episodes

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1

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

2

Expelled from school and their world destroyed | Pessy Unstressing

3

The National Desertion Bureau | Eddy Portnoy

4

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

5

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

6

What is anti-semitism? | Doran Shafrir

7

Hasidic Bubby shares their wedding traditions

8

Everyone is talking about Jews

9

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

10

When life is like weaving a quilt | Dovid Bashevkin

11

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

12

Inside an Amish school day | Lovina Zook

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

An amazing collection of Rare Talmuds! | Samuel Marks

19

Meet this INCREDIBLE young Jewish collector | Samuel Marks

20

She left Hasidic Boro Park | Melissa Weisz's story

21

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

22

Hasidic Jews once thrived in Poland | Historian Glenn Dynner

23

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

24

My Hasidic Passover Memories

25

Baily prepares for Passover [comedian Leah Forster]

26

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

27

From the hospital bedside

28

Just a messenger? A Jewish interpreter at international organizations

29

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

30

Mayor Mamdani and the Jews | Jacob Kornbluh

31

The beloved bubby answers your questions | Pearl from Williamsburg

32

Living and leaving Jehova's Witness | Miriam Vidal

33

Reading your comments and more stories, kinderlech #3

34

Surviving the Bondi Beach terror attack | Rabbi Yosef Eichenblatt

35

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

36

The Wedding Night documentary | Rachel Elitzur

37

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

38

The kinds of industries Hasidic Jews work in

39

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

40

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

41

The original dissidents of Kiryas Joel | Michael Sussman

42

The oral histories of Bukharian Jews | Abe and Mazal

43

My most candid conversation yet | On the Avrum Rosenzweig show

44

Laughing through cancer | Leah Forster

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

The Get / My divorce 💔

51

Ex-Hasidic star Riki Rose faces her past in Williamsburg

52

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

53

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

54

From Berlin to Satmar Williamsburg | 95 year old Nelly Grussgott

55

Hasidic women fight to form a female EMS | Paula Eiselt

56

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

57

On Yiddish, Suicide and more | Mattel from Multisingual

58

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

59

Should Jews return to blood soaked Poland? | Naomi Seidman

60

Hasidic women’s modesty and clothing traditions | Pearl

61

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

62

The Rebbitzen reveals her identity | Danielle Jacobs

63

Why I left activism for Hasidic education | Naftuli Moster

64

Workout culture coming to the Ultra Orthodox world | Shmilly Feldman

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

What it was like to grow up Amish | Martha Ross

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

A visually impaired Hasidic woman tells her story | Rochel Bodek

73

A historian's warning | Anna Shternshis

74

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

75

I grew up in Kiryas Joel and embraced plant medicine

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

Messiah Energy and Wholesome Comedy | Interview with Modi Rosenfeld

80

My Chanukah Memories | Reading: Circumcised Chanukah Gifts

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

The Talmud as a Door | In Conversation with Miriam Anzovin

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

What are Hasidic Jewish SECTS?

100

Am I disrespectful?

101

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

102

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

103

"The Get" A Personal Essay

104

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

105

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

106

Rules for Hasidic Girls Issued by Satmar School, Part 2

107

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

108

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

109

Top Hasidic Music Videos - 16 Selections

110

Two Dates and a Wedding - Hasidic Matchmaking Customs

111

Why do Hasidic Women SHAVE their heads?

112

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

113

Rules for Hasidic Girls Issued by Satmar School, Part 1

114

The Truth About Hasidic Jews and the Internet | A Documentary

115

An Orthodox Female Comedian | In Conversation with Leah Forster

116

Eli Benedict on Life in Israel Since the Gruesome Attacks

117

What Hasidic Boys Learn | In Conversation with Moshe Krakowski

118

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

119

More Q&A with the Hasidic Housewife PEARL

120

The Famous PEARL Answers Your Questions

121

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

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

Hasidic Boys' Education Controversy | In Conversation with Eli Spitzer

126

In Conversation with Steven Nolt on Amish Society

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

Interview with Harry Weiss, former Williamsburg resident

132

Shpanier Arbet / Jewish garment art with Elena Solomon

133

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

134

Interview with Nelly Grussgott on post-war Williamsburg, Brooklyn