My Jewish Friend is a Murderer. Can We Stay In Touch?
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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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.
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to Chutzpah. Real Life lived better, where each week we apply Jewish tradition and a little bit of law and order to talk about something that is live in our lives. I'm Rabbi Shis Stutman. And I'm Hannah Rosen. |
| 1:11.6 | Do you watch Law and Order? |
| 1:13.6 | I don't, but I do like a good procedural. |
| 1:16.6 | What about you? |
| 1:17.6 | No, I cannot, I'm constitutionally unable to watch procedures of any kind. |
| 1:23.6 | Like medical, legal, I cannot tolerate a formula. It's a real flaw in me. I wish I could. |
| 1:30.3 | Like mysteries, I just have real trouble with formula anything, TV writing. Everyone yells at me |
| 1:37.6 | about it, like just relax already, but I just, I can't. I can't do it. You know, it's funny because |
| 1:42.8 | in the current moment that we're in, |
| 1:44.3 | all I want is a formula. I want to know that A is going to happen, the B is going to happen, |
| 1:48.5 | and C is going to happen. At the end of the day, everything's going to be wrapped up. |
| 1:52.6 | It's so funny. You should say that because the one thing that I have loved is the pit, |
| 1:56.9 | which a lot of people are watching, the medical TV show. And I think that's why that I love it now, |
| 2:03.6 | because it has a certainty without having a cloying certainty. Like things don't actually get |
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