Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has been Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth since 1st September 2013. Formerly Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Rabbi Mirvis was Senior Rabbi of Kinloss Synagogue in Finchley from 1996-2013. 00:00 - Intro 13:38 - Interview 57:30 - Outro Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: Rabbi, Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS). Rabbi Philip Moskowitz: Associate Rabbi, BRS. Rabbi Josh Broide: Outreach Rabbi, BRS.
May 25, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 133
In this episode, our esteemed hosts, Rabbi Efrem Goldberg and Rabbi Josh Broide, engage in a riveting conversation with Ze'ev Orenstein, the Director for International Affairs at the City of David Foundation. Ze'ev Orenstein is a well-known figure in the realm of international affairs, known for his extensive work with the City of David Foundation (https://cityofdavid.org.il/en/). His insights and experiences provide a unique perspective on the intersection of history, archaeology, and the moder...
May 18, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 132
00:00 - Intro 17:02 - Interview 1:11:59 - Outro Rabbi Anthony Manning gained his master’s degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University and worked as a corporate lawyer in London for ten years. He learned at Yeshivat Etz Chaim in London, Yeshivat Hamivtar in Efrat, Ateres Yisrael in Bayit Vegan, and at the Jerusalem Kollel of Rav Yitzchak Berkovits. He has semichah, Yoreh Yoreh, from Rav Berkovits, semichot from Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, and is a member of the Rabbinical Council of America....
May 11, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 131
Guest: Rabbi Kalman Samuels, Founder of Shalva In this episode, Rabbis Efrem Goldberg and Josh Broide sit down with Rabbi Kalman Samuels, the founder of Shalva, the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. Shalva is a non-denominational organization providing a myriad of services free of charge to individuals with disabilities from infancy to adulthood, along with their families. Topics Discussed: Rabbi Samuels' Personal Journey : Rabbi Samuels shares his perso...
May 04, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 130
Gabby Deutch is a Washington correspondent at Jewish Insider. She was previously a contributing writer at JI and had worked on The Atlantic‘s global affairs team and at NewsGuard, a company fighting online misinformation. Gabby graduated from Yale, where she studied history. See here for her series on the case of the murdered rabbi: https://jewishinsider.com/2023/04/an-open-door/. 00:00 - Intro 13:18 - Interview 1:01:58 - Outro Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: Rabbi, Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS). Rabbi Phili...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 129
Darryl Eugene Strawberry (born March 12, 1962) is an American former professional baseball right fielder and author who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Strawberry, who was nicknamed The Straw Man or Straw, helped lead the New York Mets to a World Series championship in 1986 and the New York Yankees to two World Series championships in 1996 and 1999. After battling cocaine and alcohol addiction throughout much of his famed baseball career, Darryl Strawberry has now been clean an...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 128
Rabbi Nachman Seltzer is the author of forty five books, including such classics as 90 Seconds, Living Legend, the Zera Shimshon series, Incredible! and Incredible 2 and The Rebbetzin. Those were proceeded by The Network, The Link and The Shadows, (fiction); Child Of War and Nine Out Of Ten (biographies); the Moments series; Stories With A Twist; and the bestselling It Could Have Been You series (short stories). He also compiled One Small Deed Can Change The World, a popular anthology. Rabbi Sel...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 127
00:00 - Introduction 21:20 - Rabbi Philip Moskowitz 33:21 - Binyamin and Shani Muschel 42:59 - Lori Palatnik 1:06:00 - Dr. Larry & Debra Halperin 1:15:39 - Alexandra Fleksher 1:41:00 - Rabbi Dr. Dovid Bashevkin 2:08:46 - Shimmie & Beth Kaminetsky 2:15:21 - Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz 2:40:02 - Rabbi YY Jacobson 2:55:21 - Rabbi Daniel Kalish 3:12:11 - Rebbetzin Yocheved Goldberg 21:20 - Rabbi Philip Moskowitz Rabbi Moskowitz is a dedicated community leader known for his commitment to fostering a...
Mar 17, 2023•3 hr 50 min•Ep. 126
Rabbi Uri Tieger was born into a secular family in Israel. He grew up like most Israeli children, attending public school and enjoying a typical secular upbringing. However, despite his secular background, Rabbi Tieger developed a deep interest in Judaism and the Torah. Over the years, Rabbi Tieger's relationship with Rabbi Kanievsky deepened, becoming a study partner. Rabbi Tieger even helped Rabbi Kanievsky edit some of his works, contributing to the canon of Jewish scholarship in a significan...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 125
Bernie Marcus is a well-known American businessman and philanthropist. He was born on May 12, 1929, in Newark, New Jersey. Marcus co-founded the home improvement retail giant Home Depot in 1978, along with Arthur Blank, and served as the company's first CEO until 1997. Under his leadership, Home Depot grew to become the largest home improvement retailer in the United States, with more than 2,200 stores worldwide. Marcus is also a noted philanthropist, having donated millions of dollars to variou...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 124
Yair Rosenberg is staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers the intersection of politics, culture, and religion, and writes the Deep Shtetl newsletter. Previously a senior writer at Tablet Magazine, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, and his work has received awards from the Religion Newswriters Association and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. He has covered everything from national elections in America and Israel, to obs...
Feb 15, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 123
Morton A. "Mort" Klein (born 1947) is a German-born American economist, statistician, and pro-Israeli activist. He is the president of the Zionist Organization of America. In 2004, he was named one of the top five Jewish leaders in the United States by The Forward. Klein is a published academic, having served as a lecturer at Temple University and as a biostatistician at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the Linus Pauling Institute. 00:00 - Intro 14:03 - Interview 1:03:57 - Outro Rab...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 122
For over twenty years, Israel has leveraged his gift for building relationships to precipitate exponential growth for corporations, charities, and careers. As a master of connecting people with mission-driven business ventures and purposeful nonprofit organizations, he has guided thousands of clients through uniquely creative fundraising, marketing, and social media campaigns. Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: Rabbi, Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS). Rabbi Philip Moskowitz: Associate Rabbi, BRS. Rabbi Josh Broide...
Feb 02, 2023•55 min•Ep. 121
Born into a family that was fragmented by the Holocaust, Yehuda Kohn, head of the Bet Elazraki Children’s Home in Netanya, has dedicated his life to repairing the lives of hundreds of at-risk children by providing them with warmth, love and a welcoming environment. For more, see here: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/a-true-parent-621579. 00:00 - Intro 8:38 - Interview 57:54 - Outro Stay up to date with Rabbi Efrem Goldberg at https://rabbiefremgoldberg.org/whatsapp. Notes: Check out this inspi...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 120
Rav Moshe Meiselman is an American-born Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Moshe in Jerusalem, which he established in 1982. He also founded and served as principal of Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA) from 1977 to 1982. He is a descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty and nephew of the Rav, R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik who he considers to be his Rebbe par excellence. 00:00 - Intro 8:36 - Interview 1:11:56 - Outro Stay up to date with Rabbi Efrem Goldbe...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 119
Abie Rotenberg is a prolific Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been producing music since the mid-1970s with a style which has been described as "soft and sweet" with a strong folk influence. Rotenberg has cited the musicians Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach as strong influences. While his folk-inspired sound and inspirational lyrics are strongly reminiscent of Carlebach, Rotenberg's soft and sometimes melancholic voice, how...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 118
Veronica Bocelli is the wife of Andrea Bocelli and vice-chair of the Bocelli Foundation. The Andrea Bocelli Foundation, Ente Filantropico, was established in July 2011 inspired by the desire of Maestro Bocelli and his family to give back a measure of the love and support that they had received over the course of his career spent traveling around the world. 00:00 - Intro 2:00 - Interview 50:03 - Outro Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: Rabbi, Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS). Rabbi Philip Moskowitz: Associate Rabbi...
Jan 05, 2023•57 min•Ep. 117
YESHIVA OF SOUTH FLORIDA is designed to continue the path of growth in Avodas Hashem and Talmud Torah that Talmidim cultivated while learning in Eretz Yisrael. Our goal is to create a Makom Torah where Talmidim can thrive and develop into Talmidei Chachamim, Bnei Aliyah and Bnei Torah for life. 00:00 - Intro 16:16 - Interviews 1:32:38 - Outro Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: Rabbi, Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS). Rabbi Philip Moskowitz: Associate Rabbi, BRS. Rabbi Josh Broide: Outreach Rabbi, BRS....
Dec 29, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 116
Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon is an internationally acclaimed “posek” of Halacha, author, educator, and lecturer. Individuals and communities from around the globe turn to him regarding complex questions in Halacha, the responses of which have been pivotal in helping shape the contemporary Jewish world. Rav Rimon is the Chief Rabbi of Gush Etzion and is the Rosh Yeshiva of Lev Academic Center (JCT), as well as the community rabbi of Alon Shvut South. For Rav Rimon, innovation in Torah and Chessed come han...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 115
David Melech Friedman (born August 8, 1958) is an American bankruptcy lawyer and the former United States Ambassador to Israel. He joined the law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman (then known as Kasowitz, Hoff, Benson & Torres) in 1994, where he met and represented Donald Trump, then chairman and president of The Trump Organization. He was an advisor to Trump during his successful presidential campaign. In December 2016, President-elect Trump's transition team announced that Fried...
Dec 15, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 114
Ohel Zachter Family National Trauma Center Presents Reimagining Perinatal Loss. Featuring: Rabbi Efrem and Rebbetzin Yocheved Goldberg Bocca Raton Synagogue Hear their personal story of late term pregnancy loss, experienced from a Mother and Father's perspectives And Dr. Norman Blumenthal Director, Zachter Family National Trauma Center, Ohel. Also Featuring Panelists: Aimee Baron, MD Founder and Executive Director, I Was Supposed to Have a Baby Chumi Friedman Director, HUG, ATIME's Pregnancy and...
Dec 11, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 113
Rabbi Gershon Schusterman is the author of Why, God, Why?: How to Believe in Heaven When it Hurts like Hell (https://store.kehotonline.com/mobile/prodinfo.asp?number=EO-WHYG). Rabbi Gershon Schusterman knew all the textbook answers when comforting bereaved community members who asked him, “Where is God? If God is loving, how could this happen?” But when the rabbi’s young wife died suddenly, leaving him a 38- year-old widower with eleven children to raise, he found himself reeling. His personal q...
Dec 08, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 112
David Sacks is an American television writer and producer. His writing and producing credits include seasons five and six on 'The Simpsons', for which he won an Emmy Award, '3rd Rock from the Sun', for which he received a Golden Globe Award, 'Malcolm in the Middle', 'Murphy Brown', and more. 00:00 - Intro 12:59 - Interview 1:09:31 - Outro Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: Rabbi, Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS). Rabbi Philip Moskowitz: Associate Rabbi, BRS. Rabbi Josh Broide: Outreach Rabbi, BRS....
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 111
Yishai Fleisher is the International Spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Hebron. Yishai is also an Israeli broadcaster and a frequent columnist for major news websites including a recent oped in the NY Times. He holds a JD from Cardozo Law and rabbinic ordination from Kollel Agudat Achim. Yishai is a paratrooper in the IDF reserves and lives with his family in the hills of Judea. 00:00 - Intro 10:16 - Interview 1:15:03 - Outro Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: Rabbi, Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS). Rabbi P...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 110
If you are interested in any of CCSA’s services - prevention education in schools, family support group, community awareness events - reach out to Lianne Forman at lianne.forman@jewishccsa.org or go to www.jewishccsa.org for more information.
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 109
Allison Josephs (Founder & Executive Director of Jew in the City) has been involved in the field of Jewish Outreach for over twenty years and is the Partner in Torah mentor to actress Mayim Bialik. Variety named her as an advocate for inclusivity in the entertainment industry in its 2022 Inclusion Impact Report. Allison has been quoted or written about in numerous publications, including Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, People Magazine, NYPost, Daily News, TMZ, The D...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 108
Meyers Patrick Leonard (born February 27, 1992) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini before being selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 11th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft. After spending his first seven seasons with the Trail Blazers, he was traded to the Heat in the 2019 offseason. He reached the NBA Finals with the ...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 107
Rav Yitzchak Berkovits is the Rosh Yeshiva of the Aish HaTorah Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He is a leading expert on Mitzvot Bein Adam L’Chavero, the Torah’s wisdom regarding interpersonal relationships, and is the Posek and spiritual guide for hundreds of Jewish outreach professionals and many organizations around the world. Before assuming the position of Dean at the Aish HaTorah Yeshiva, Rabbi Berkovits was the founder and Dean of The Jerusalem Kollel and has been the Mashgiach Ruchani of Aish HaTo...
Nov 03, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 106
Rabbi David Fohrman is an internationally renowned lecturer on biblical themes, and the founder and principal educator at Aleph Beta. He has served as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, and as a lead writer and editor for ArtScroll's Talmud translation project. Rabbi Fohrman has also served as scholar for the Hoffberger Foundation for Torah Study. He is the author of The Beast That Crouches at the Door, a finalist for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award, The Queen You Thought You ...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 105
Audiences all over North America have been bowled over by Butler’s personal and professional perspectives, his whirlwind delivery, gentle humor, and remarkable insights into the human condition. Dan Butler draws on his experiences as a father, a syndicated weekly columnist, a securities salesman, a college professor, a retail store manager and a regional director for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY). He has been a judicial law clerk, a prosecutor, a family court hearing officer ...
Sep 22, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 104
