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 • 72 episodes
Friends In Deed Podcast
Latest Episodes
2026 - 1 Destroyed Houses of Worship Emerge from the Fire: Conversation with 3 Local Clergy
On this special episode, Rabbi Joshua has in-depth conversation with three local clergy, all of whose houses of worship burned in the Eaton Fire: Pastor Connie DeVaughn of Altadena Baptist Church, and Rabbi Josh Ratner and Cantor Ruth Berman Ha...
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Season 2026
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Episode 1
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55:25
2025 - 12 Safe Parking: Why it Works and Why We Should Support it!
On this episode, Rabbi Joshua discusses Safe Parking programs and talks with FID's new Director of Street Outreach and Housing, Giulianna LoMaglio, who has expertise in how successful safe parking can be for moving people from homelessness to h...
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Season 2025
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Episode 12
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36:11
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