Friends In Deed Podcast
Friends In Deed (FID) is an interfaith organization that provides supportive services to our homeless and at risk neighbors to help them rebuild their lives. Each episode, FID CEO, Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, talks about our programs, interviews clients, has conversations with staff, community leaders and commentators around issues of poverty, homelessness, religious values, morals and much more! Learn more at www.friendsindeedpas.org, follow us on Instagram @friendsindeedpas, or visit us at facebook.com/friendsindeedpas.
Podcasting since 2021 • 70 episodes
Friends In Deed Podcast
Latest Episodes
2025 - 11 Meet Opie: TWR Guest Who Went from College to the Streets to Grad School
Grateful to move forward from the government shutdown, Rabbi Joshua speaks today with Opie, a woman in her 20s, who has a more unusual story than most guests who come to The Women's Room. She opens up about her early life in Tennessee, attendin...
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Season 2025
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Episode 11
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38:20
2025 - 10 SNAP CUTS BEGINNING! A conversation with FID Food Pantry Director, Tim Nistler
On this episode, Rabbi Joshua is joined by Tim Nistler for a conversation about the impending cuts to SNAP benefits and how it is affecting our food pantry community. Tim shares the staggering new record of households in one week, and speaks ab...
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Season 2025
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Episode 10
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24:19
2025 - 9 Money for Ballrooms But Not SNAP
Rabbi Joshua checks in on Day 22 of the government shutdown. On November 1st, without an agreement to reopen, millions of people, mostly children, will lose their SNAP benefits, which are commonly known as food stamps or EBT cards. Yet, there i...
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Season 2025
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Episode 9
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17:23
2025 - 8 Government Shutdown and Funding Housing
In this episode, Rabbi Joshua checks in on day 9 of the government shutdown to highlight how this will potentially begin to affect the most vulnerable in our country, and how the current budget proposal includes sweeping cuts to the Continuum o...
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Season 2025
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Episode 8
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18:18
2025 - 7 Trying to Count People: Conversation with Jennifer O'Reilly Jones on 2025 Homeless Count
Today Rabbi Joshua is joined by Pasadena Housing Department's Homelessness Coordinator, Jenni O-Reilly Jones, as they discuss the results from both the 2024 Annual Homeless Count and the 2025 Point in Time Count. There are some positives to rep...
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Season 2025
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Episode 7
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33:58