Nissim Black: The Real Cost of Choosing Torah & Yiddishkeit
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
This episode addresses the reaction that followed Nissim Black becoming Jewish. It also follows the discourse around how antisemitism intensified, including controversies involving Kanye West and Candace Owens. It looks at how those conversations spilled into everyday interactions, changing how people spoke, distanced themselves, or made assumptions. The focus is on identity, conversion, social consequences, and the choice to speak plainly rather than retreat or self-censor.
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| 0:00.0 | I ignored it everything for a while. I really didn't want to be involved in anything like that in politics. So I started the Nees and Black show thinking, all Rochness. We're going to stay all rochness. We're only going to talk about that. And I just started feeling compelled for a long time because I was like, if we just shed more light than it would have snuff out the darkness. But I kept on feeling like, this is intense. |
| 0:21.8 | Anything I post, anything that I say is getting like completely ate up by all these evil |
| 0:28.1 | people in my comment section. And I started to realize the magnitude of how much anti-Semitism |
| 0:34.3 | and how. And so I'm starting to figure like, hold on, there's a few key figures, |
| 0:38.6 | right? Kanye, what he did was very impactful. |
| 0:41.4 | Candace Owens, so I did this podcast and they like blew up. |
| 0:45.3 | The world is changing and quickly. |
| 0:48.0 | Who better than someone who was a practicing Christian, practicing Muslim, and someone |
| 0:52.9 | who was steeped in America's hip-hop and gang |
| 0:55.7 | world and transitioned to Hasidic Judaism in Jerusalem to give us his take on why anti-Semitism |
| 1:02.6 | is increasing. |
| 1:03.7 | And practically, what could we do? |
| 1:06.1 | You've likely seen Nisim's origin story, but you probably didn't know that he's become |
| 1:10.1 | one of the most powerful |
| 1:11.0 | voices online defending Judaism. Here's the full story. And before that, this episode is a memory |
| 1:17.2 | of Shimon Dava bin Yaku Shlima and Miriam Sarabas Yaakov-Mosha. And this episode is powered by |
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| 1:38.8 | Here we go. |
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