Back by popular demand, Rabbi Shira and Hanna cap off this season with a Shavuot celebration and Torah study Back by popular demand, Rabbi Shira and Hanna cap off this season with a Shavuot celebration and Torah study. They help a young listeners preparing for his Bar Mitzvah and lead us us through Sh’lach L’cha , which Rabbi Shira loves because it’s one of the stories that has the most to teach us about our lived experience today. Read Sh’lach L’cha Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact C...
May 28, 2025•34 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Beyond face masks and candles is there such a thing as “Jewish Self-Care”? Rabbi Shira and Hanna admit they are allergic to the lavender-scented concept and respond to a listener who wants to know more about Judaism’s notion of taking care of oneself. Read the story about surviving in the desert. Read the story about bathing while mourning Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Fol...
May 21, 2025•38 min•Season 5Ep. 14
A listener tells us she loves the show – it’s funny, it’s wise (aww shucks), but oy such language! She says feh to the vulgar cursing and prompts Rabbi Shira and Hanna to wonder what Judaism says about “working blue.” Read about Nivul Peh Read about Derech Eretz Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choic...
May 14, 2025•38 min•Season 5Ep. 13
A listener’s friend committed a heinous crime and is now in prison. She wonders if remaining friends and visiting him dishonors his victim’s memory. Tune in to hear Rabbi Shira and Hanna’s advice. Breaking down teshuvah Jewish Views on Forgiveness : Are There Things That Can’t Be Forgiven? A Prayer for Those Not Ready to Forgive , by Rabbi Jill Zimmerman Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira ...
May 07, 2025•41 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Rabbi Shira shares her live conversation with New York Times' Opinion columnist David Brooks .* And on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) she talks about the importance of voting in the World Zionist Congress. * This event was hosted by Sixth & I , a center for arts, entertainment, ideas, and Jewish life in Washington DC. Vote in the World Zionist Congress Listen to more conversations from Sixth & I Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Foll...
Apr 30, 2025•54 min•Season 5Ep. 11
On the eve of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Rabbi Shira asks a surprising question: Do we actually have to teach our kids about the Holocaust? (Spoiler Alert: She didn’t.) She looks back at her own choices about Holocaust education and finds a way forward. More resources for talking to your kids about the Holocaust and Antisemitism: Guidelines for Teaching The Holocaust Activities for Holocaust learning Talking to Children About Antisemitism A Very Brief Guide to Antisemitism Support ...
Apr 23, 2025•41 min•Season 5Ep. 10
As we celebrate Passover during the current climate, Rabbi Shira talks to Hanna about what Judaism says about violence, resistance and freedom. And they speak to a Jewish gun owner about his choice to protect himself. More on preventing harm and stumbling blocks in the Torah Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about ...
Apr 16, 2025•43 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Hanna asks the questions this week as we prepare for Passover. How do we tell and interpret the Passover story when it feels like we’re firmly stuck at the beginning of our own contemporary plight? Do we have the opportunity to have perhaps the most authentic seder any of us have had in our lived experience? Rabbi Shira has tips and wisdom for you as you prepare your own seders. Add to your own Haggadot And go out and learn! Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chut...
Apr 09, 2025•41 min•Season 5Ep. 8
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 Support Chutzpod! Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn abou...
Apr 02, 2025•40 min•Season 5Ep. 7
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. Read more about Jewish responsibility to the community Read more about Jewish leadership Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod...
Mar 26, 2025•29 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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. Get Shira’s book! See Shira in conversation with David Brooks Read the story about crashing your rabbi's marital bed Read more about Shabbat and rest Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chut...
Mar 19, 2025•36 min•Season 5Ep. 5
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. See Sabbath Queen Read The Book of Esther Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instag...
Mar 12, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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 Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on F...
Mar 05, 2025•28 min•Season 5Ep. 3
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 Read more about fate in Judaism Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Feb 26, 2025•37 min•Season 5Ep. 2
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 Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscr...
Feb 19, 2025•39 min•Season 5Ep. 1
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. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-...
Feb 05, 2025•1 min
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 [email protected] 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. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on ...
Jan 22, 2025•34 min•Season 4Ep. 16
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. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.or...
Jan 15, 2025•35 min•Season 4Ep. 15
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. More about Moshe Kasher Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jan 08, 2025•39 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Today, we’re sharing a special episode from our friends at The Five Books . Join host Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen as she speaks with Rabbi Benjamin Resnick about his debut novel, Next Stop , a work of speculative fiction that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through the lens of one family. He also discusses how the literature that’s meant the most to him throughout his life has also influenced his own work. Listen and follow The Five Books here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetai...
Jan 01, 2025•47 min
In between the movie and Chinese food, enjoy one of our favorite recent episodes. Is a Jewish Santa kosher? Rabbi Shira & Hanna Rosin ponder the ethics of Christmas cosplay in this very merry episode. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Dec 25, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 13
As you're buying gift after gift for Hannukah, enjoy this gem from our archives. What to do when you want to teach your children gratitude, humility and the value of a dollar, but your mother’s “greatest joy in life” is spoiling them rotten. Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk about money myths, values and honoring thy father and mother. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chu...
Dec 18, 2024•33 min•Season 4Ep. 12
It’s the season of giving, so we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes from the archive. We’ll be back answering new questions soon. So please send them to [email protected] What happens if you receive an unexpected inheritance from a person you’ve cut out of your life? Should you keep it? Give it away to charity? Join Rabbi Shira and Hanna as they balance the rules of Torah with the financial realities of life. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Hanna on Instagra...
Dec 04, 2024•22 min•Season 4Ep. 12
We are thankful for YOU! Enjoy this recent episode with gratitude. And if you're thankful for Chutzpod please consider making a donation to support the show. Rabbi Shira and Hanna are joined by Rabbi Sharon Brous to talk about what she calls the “ The Amen Effect ” – what it means to be heard and seen during times of joy and grief and how a deeper connection to the Jewish community can actually help us cross tribal lines. Rabbi Brous is the founder of IKAR , an influential progressive Jewish con...
Nov 27, 2024•39 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Friendsgiving plans got you down? Enjoy one of our favorite recent episodes... While you listen, please make a contribution to support this podcast you love! Do you suffer from Friendship FOMO? Heartburn, fatigue, painful stabs of jealousy while looking at Instagram? Rabbi Shira and Hanna will provide some relief. Podcast host and producer Lauren Ober writes in. And Shira lets out her inner mean girl. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on...
Nov 20, 2024•43 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Saving seats at services is almost as old as Judaism itself. But should you do it? A newly converted Jewish listener bristles at this convention and wonders if it’s ok to make her friends and family fend for themselves if they can’t make it on time. Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Facebook Follow Chutzpod on Instagram Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Nov 06, 2024•42 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Should second weddings be modest? Or is it kosher to go full bridezilla? A listener asks for advice on how to deal with her sister’s seemingly over-the-top requests for her second Jewish wedding. 2nd weddings in the Torah: Abraham and Ketura Boaz and Ruth Rabbi Akiva Rav Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Twitter Follow Hanna on Twitter Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Oct 30, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 9
A Grandma asks Rabbi Shira and Hanna how to share Jewish traditions with her grandchildren. How can she share these traditions without overstepping? How can she be a Jewish grandparent at a distance? Resources for Jewish grandparents: Jewish Grandparents Network PJ Library Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Twitter Follow Hanna on Twitter Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Oct 23, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 8
The news is awful, and everything feels terrible. Now go celebrate! A news-obsessed listener asks for advice on how to be less negative at home. Is it ok to check out and still be a good Jew? And could Debbie Downer have been Jewish? Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Twitter Follow Hanna on Twitter Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Oct 16, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 7
The next best thing to being in the synagogue with Rabbi Shira…Tune in to Rabbi Shira’s sermon for this year’s Yom Kippur. We want to live in a world of the everlasting yes--but what do we do when we get the terminal no, instead? Read about the death and burial of Moses Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Twitter Follow Hanna on Twitter Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Oct 09, 2024•18 min•Season 4Ep. 6
