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Chutzpod! is a frank and wide-ranging conversation on how to build a good life, using real-life quandaries and millennia-old Jewish wisdom.
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Rabbi Shira’s Yom Kippur Sermon: “See It” (opens the original)
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Even if you can’t make it to Aspen you can hear Rabbi Shira’s sermon for Yom Kippur this year. Drawing on her own experience visiting the Langa Township in Cape Town, South Africa, the Yom Kippur Haftarah reading and some Ursula LeGuin, Shira urges us all to “shrink the frame” to a human-sized small town of responsibility, practice Teshuvah and reject willful blindness. Watch this sermon Read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Read the Yom Kippur Haftarah reading Support Chutzpod! Submit a quest
Misery Loves Company (Even on Rosh Hashanah) (opens the original)
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Chutzpod is back to usher everyone into the New Year! And as we approach 5787, a listener wonders how to show up authentically, even if that means bringing the mood down. Rabbi Shira and Hanna wonder why we feel pressure to have a “happy” new year and encourage everyone not to bring the Jewish equivalent of a sanitized Christmas letter to their high holiday celebrations. Read This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared Read about the Unetanah Tokef Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact
The Long Arc: 250 Years of Jews and America (opens the original)
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Listen to this special bonus episode recorded live at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 12, 2026. As America approaches 250 years, this conversation looks at the enduring relationship between Jewish life and the American experiment. Through historical reflection and contemporary insight, speakers will explore how Jewish tradition and democratic ideals have shaped one another—and what that long story asks of us now. This conversation features Rabbi Sharon Brous , Founder and Senior Rabbi of IKA
Coming Soon...Chutzpod Season 8! (opens the original)
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Chutzpod is coming back with new episodes and new real-life questions September 9th! Rabbi Shira and Hanna will talk about when to see a rabbi over a therapist, how to navigate a mixed-observance marriage and is believing in aliens Jewish?? Subscribe to automatically get all new episodes. And submit your own questions to be featured on an episode! Support Chutzpod! Submit a question Contact Chutzpod! Subscribe to Chutzstack Follow Hanna on Instagram Follow Shira on Instagram Follow Shira on Face
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