9. The Most Real Parents I've Ever Met - Conversation with Malka and Mendel Groden

A follow up conversation with Chezzi Denebeim, unpacking some of the discussion in the previous episode.

Intro/Outro Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swXKCDz0gC8

Dovid Leider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-U8-0ayZE&t=13s

Frank-the Tank-Fleming
https://www.youtube.com/user/NJTank

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What if what we're looking FOR, we're actually looking WITH?"

Chezzi Denebeim shares some of his journey and insights found along the way.

Recorded on January 12th, 2020

Intro Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSuJkRYu92c

Outro Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVc_l8a6Sws

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A recording of ‘A Nakht in Shtetl’ Yiddish music recital from September 22, 2016 at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel in Crown Heights 

Preformed by Chaim Kohn, Cantor Yanky Lemmer, Cantor Ayeh Leib Hurwitz, Isaac Tiefenbrun, and special guest Zalmen Mlotek 

Musical by Avremi G, Zisl Slepovtich, Deborah Strauss, Taylor Bergren-Chrisman, and Laura Melnicoff

Produced by Chaim Kohn 

A conversation with Rabbi Shais Taub recorded on March 3rd. It was just before Corona got real, but we discuss a lot of the issues that seem so very relevant now. 

Can we find our own stories within the experience of another? 

Is it possible to draw spiritual meaning from all the suffering around us without becoming deplorably selfish in the process?

Soulwords by Rabbi Shais Taub
https://soulwords.org

Intro Music
https://rsa.fau.edu/track/49493

Outro Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5negGqng_4

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Gittel Follman shares some of her experiences as a single girl in the big city, her journey and work as a social worker, self care, and family life. 

Gittel Follman is the wife of Moe Follman and the mother of two wonderful children, Nash and Leora. Gittel is the Director of Social Work at Brooklyn Defender Services, where she has worked for the past 20 years. She also serves as the Associate Director of The Living Room NY, since 2003.

Intro Music: Hey Zhankoye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-0JGDM7pAI

Outro Music: A Meidl In Di Yoren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsKOf3ofZ4

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An alternative perspective to replace the fear of "outside ideas" with a confidence in finding commonality. Postscript from previous episode (And Where's Your Normal Card?)

Key facts of AA history
https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/aa-timeline

The Jung letters
https://speakingofjung.com/blog/2015/11/13/the-bill-w-carl-jung-letters

Outro music - Ki M'tzion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_3u9dUbIs

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An honest conversation with Rabbi Meir Kessler about addiction, recovery, and the spiritual principles that make one man’s ‘dubious luxury’ another man’s poison. 

Note: Contains some Yiddish & Hebrew that isn't translated.  

More about Rabbi Kessler and the JRC:
https://www.jewishrecovery.com/

Intro Music: Hishbati
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTDJOW0mzcs

Outro Music: B’cha Botchu (Shlomo Carlebach) by Mordechai Gottlieb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfX_3z-SEJA

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To close out this first season of Extra Sauce, here's a nice selection of five Yiddish Chanukah songs as well a short introduction to my own interest in Yiddish music.

Wishing you all a Zissen Chanukah and a Happy New Year!

Intro music:
https://rsa.fau.edu/album/41004

Oy, Ir Kleine Lichtelech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wb1UUZ5XtM

Tzint On Lichter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntyoVaAHWM8&feature=youtu.be

Hot a Gut'n Chanukah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fk6j_-g5CA

Drei Dreidel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fk6j_-g5CA

Lichtalech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbPi4OtwS0

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An honest, open, and free flowing conversation with Meilech Kohn. 

Get a glimpse into the riveting journey of Meilech Kohn. From the highs to the lows and everything in between, there's one soul-stirring question that cuts through it all: "U'mi Yodea"? Who knows? Perhaps it was for this very reason that you were brought here.  (Megillat Esther)

More about Meilech:
meilechkohn.com

Intro Music: L'kvod Shabbos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSr3k67ogk

Outro Music: Mi Yodea
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5negGqng_4

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Yehudah DovBer Zirkind is a spiritual seeker and an academic of the first order. I sat down with him for an impromptu conversation about many issues related to his growing up and journey within the Chabad Chassidic community and the Yeshiva system.

Yehudah DovBer Zirkind grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York and studied at various Chabad Yeshivos around the world before making Aliya in 2006. He is currently a senior research fellow at David Cardozo Academy in Jerusalem. In addition, he is a researcher, writer and lecturer on a wide range of topics in the field of academic Jewish studies. Yehudah is currently a graduate student of Yiddish literature at Tel Aviv University. The topic of his forthcoming thesis is entitled "The Sacred, the Secular and the Sacrilegious in the Life and Literary Works of Chaim Grade" His research interests include: contemporary Jewish thought, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, neo-Chassidism, Yiddish music and folklore, and Jewish bibliography. 

Some of his papers are accessible online at: https://telaviv.academia.edu/YehudahZirkind

Yehuda can be contacted at: yehuda.zirkind@mail.huji.ac.il.

Intro Music: Oyfn Veg Shtayt a Boym
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq6LMaFu2OI&t=85s

Outro Music: Kanfei Ruach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieg5AvyikfA&t=13s

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