Weinstein Podcasts
Stories about my childhood growing up in Detroit, my college and graduate school years in chemistry living in Portland OR, my clinical chemistry research years spent in LA, my gemologist years spent in New York City, and lastly my years in Israel with my wife. Theseare the stories, Ideas and events which shaped my life as an orthodox jew, and those who helped me find my way...
Episodes
98 episodes
Moonwalk
July 20, 1969, the night of the first moon walk, the unexpected turn of events which nearly caused me to spend the night in the Southfield Police station.
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Mt. Rainer
In my late 20s I attempted to climb Mt. Rainer. I came to know the meaning of sudden and immediate danger. B'H I'm here to tell the story.
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Message at Bob's diner
Entering my junior year at collage, I got a message at Bob"s diner that changed the direction in life.
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Stand by me
Along the journey towards learning to live a modern orthodox life, it turns out to be more than just learning Torah, doing mitzvot, and giving tzedakah. Its the people you meet along the way and how they enrich your life.
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Meet me at the cemetery.
A beautiful bike ride off road turns into a life saving experience.
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Twilight zone
On this Yom Kippur morning, when I expected only normality, I found myself completely alone with only the Creator.
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Geerz: Mountain biking in Israel aimed at mentoring teen boys. Designed to build confidence, leadership and a love of the land of Israel.
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What's in the lift?
The story of our lift to Israel, it was expected to arrive the week beforepassover, then corona happened; passover came and went,then the lift arrived with all our passover stuff. I guessthe 30 haggadahs will just have to wait until...
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Dayenu
The Passover Seder song of Dayenu calls out to me this yearas our unique situation of having just moved to Israel coincides with the first global pandemic.
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Shoshiiiiiiiii
Several years ago I traveled to Israel to visit my daughter.My arrival was met with unexpected challenges, but with a cry into the heavens for help, all worked out just fine.
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Apostille
One of the first hurtles in the Alyiah journey you won't be able to avoid is getting your documents apostilled.
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The Big jump
Karen and I made the Big jump to Israel. The world isfaced with a pandemic. Everyone on the planet is staringinto a huge unknown..
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Competition at Brennan Pools- Pies & Flies
During my late teen swimming years, I spent my summer months swimming at Brennan Pools in Detroit. Once a summer we elected to forgo the training, for a competition of a different sort.
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Dr. First
Those mischievous days in my organic lab. at Eastern, and the practical
joke we played on the freshman ladies enrolled in the per-nursing program.
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5:51
Kill Switch
When two friends and I went on a hiking trip to the adirondacks,
we didn't get far before I flick the kill switch on the car, well the
story takes off from there.
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Old Smoothies
The story about my parents' retirement activity of square dancing, and how it kept their romance alive.
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The Bloomberg Expedition
On a trip to the east coast prior to heading out to Portland Or. for grad. school, I crashed on the side of the road; having survived the experience I was left with a strength I carry with me even today.
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