Jewish Geography
Chutzpod!
Chutzpod!
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Everyone loves to play Jewish geography, right? But what if you find the practice exclusive, confusing or even offensive? Is it time to reconsider and leave “bageling” in the past?
Why don’t you ask a convert to tell their story?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, chutzkwad. We know you love thoughtful Jewish conversation. So there's another podcast we think you should check out. It's called Being Jewish with Jonah Platt. |
| 0:09.6 | Jonah has the kind of conversations that don't feel reactive or hysterical or trapped in hot takes. He makes space for complexity instead of trying to win an argument. |
| 0:19.1 | Jonah talks to artist, public figures, thinkers, Jewish and not, including Seinfeld's |
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| 0:32.1 | Crawford. |
| 0:33.0 | The podcast is about the beautiful and complicated parts of Jewish life. |
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| 0:46.6 | Or visit BeingJewishpodcast.com. |
| 0:53.8 | Hello. |
| 0:57.8 | Welcome back to chutzpah, real life lived better, where each week we apply Jewish tradition |
| 1:03.9 | and a little bit of six degrees of Mandy Patinkin to talk about something that is live in our lives. I'm Rabbi Shira Stupman. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm Hannah Rosen. Shira, I have to tell you something. |
| 1:17.1 | What? Remember last week when we talked about Halloween and you were like, enough with the, it's fine, you can all dress up for Halloween? |
| 1:24.6 | So I just spoke to my mother, who is still in Israel, and she's like, |
| 1:30.2 | the shops are all Halloween. They're full of Halloween in Israel. Yes. She's like Halloween decorations, |
| 1:36.4 | Halloween costumes. It's like Halloween, Halloween everywhere. Wow. This is literally the first I've |
| 1:41.7 | ever heard of Halloween in Israel. Me too. No. I'm too. She was like, are your kids doing anything for Halloween? And I was like, how do you even remember that it's Halloween? She's like, you wouldn't believe it. It's all over Israel. I'm just trying to imagine Israelis giving out candy. Like, what is Israeli equivalent? The kids go door to door and they open the door and they're like like, ma, matamotem. And then you're like, it's Halloween, man. Just like, give me a box. They throw a few dates at them. You know, it's fine. You know, some of those gummies from the shook and fine. Go to the next house. Yeah, exactly. I need to know more about this. If you are currently stationed in Israel or if you have experienced Halloween, Halloween |
| 2:21.3 | in Israel, please, please send us an email, drop us a line and let us know what it's like to go trick-or-treating. |
| 2:31.3 | My mind is blown. |
| 2:32.3 | All right, let's start the pod. Here's my question for you. |
| 2:35.0 | Okay. My question. How important is it for you to know that like a celebrity in Hollywood is |
| 2:40.9 | Jewish? Like, you know, when you see a movie, when a movie is coming on, do you know right away |
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