The Jewish Lens Podcast
A podcast that looks at anything and everything through a Jewish perspective.
Episodes
82 episodes
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of Out From the Shadows, Willie Handler!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the author of Out From the Shadows, Willie Handler!Willie discusses his books, growing up as a child of Holocaust survivors, the programs at the Toronto Holocaust Museum, antisemitism in Toron...
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Season 2
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Episode 46
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39:44
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of A Novel Crime, Deborah Levison!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with the author of A Novel Crime, Deborah Levison!Deborah discusses her books, being the daughter of Holocaust survivors, the real-life crime embroiling her family, which led to her book The Crate, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 45
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40:23
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of Hands of Gold, Roni Robbins!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the author of Hands of Gold, Roni Robbins!Roni discusses the book based on her family, Hands of Gold, her career in journalism, and interviewing people such as Hank Aaron, her family having a ...
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Season 2
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Episode 44
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45:20
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of Your Roots Cast a Shadow, Caroline Topperman!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the author of Your Roots Cast a Shadow, Caroline Topperman!Caroline discusses her book, Your Roots Cast a Shadow, owning a Pilates studio with celebrity clients, tracing back her roots in Pola...
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Season 2
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Episode 43
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41:40
The Jewish Lens presents: The Accidental Talmudist, Sal Litvak!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with The Accidental Talmudist, Sal Litvak!Sal discusses his path to becoming The Accidental Talmudist, his new movie Guns & Moses, his book Let My People Laugh, & much more!
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The Jewish Lens presents: the publisher of Green BeanBooks, Michael Leventhal!!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the publisher of Green Bean Books, Michael Leventhal!Michael discusses what he looks for when acquiring books, his own books Jews in Britain, The Chocolate King, and others, the Jewish food chari...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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42:11
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of Hollywood Ending: The Dreams and Drama of the LeBron Lakers, Yaron Weitzman!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the author of Hollywood Ending: The Dreams and Drama of the LeBron Lakers, Yaron Weitzman!Yaron discusses the history of LeBron on the Lakers and the decision-making on the team, the behind-the-s...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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42:00
The Jewish Lens presents: the writers of Peggy Sue Got Married, Arlene Sarner and Jerry Liechtling
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with the writers of the fun time travel classic, Peggy Sue Got Married, Arlene Sarner and Jerry Liechtling!Arlene and Jerry discuss the making of the Peggy Sue Got Married, the behind-the-scenes cas...
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Season 2
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Episode 40
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48:30
The Jewish Lens presents: the organizer of the Jewish Authors Summit, Jennifer Rubin!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with the organizer of the Jewish Authors Summit, Jennifer Rubin!Jennifer discusses her work at 70 Faces Media, the upcoming Jewish Authors Summit that she organized, the issues that Jews face in pub...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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50:21
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of Rewriting the Rules, Danna Zeiger!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with the author of Rewriting the Rules, Danna Zeiger!Danna discusses her book Rewriting the Rules about the life of Dr. Kathleen Friel, being a Biology professor at Fisher College, how her father ha...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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50:19
The Jewish Lens presents: Multimedia Journalist Sharon Geltner!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with multimedia journalist Sharon Geltner!Sharon discusses her career in journalism, her interactive marketing firm Froogle PR, her book Charity Bashed, & much more!
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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45:53
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of The Night Sparrow, Shelly Sanders!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with the author of The Night Sparrow, Shelly Sanders!Shelly discusses her book The Night Sparrow, discovering she was Jewish as a teen, visiting Latvia and finding out that she had ancestors murdere...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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58:46
The Jewish Lens presents: the Executive Director at Chabad of Coral Springs, Rabbi Avraham Friedman!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the Executive Director at Chabad of Coral Springs, Rabbi Avraham Friedman!Rabbi Friedman discusses growing up in Brooklyn in a Chabad household, fighting antisemitism in a post-October 7th wor...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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56:33
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of My Other Half, David Isaacson!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with the author of My Other Half, David Isaacson!David discusses the story behind his book, doing film reviews, antisemitism in London, and much more!
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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27:30
The Jewish Lens presents: the CEO of the Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona, Hava Holzhauer!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with the CEO of the Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona, Hava Holzhauer!Hava discusses growing up as the descendant of Holocaust survivors, the work she does for the community as the President...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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47:36
The Jewish Lens presents: the president of the Yiddish Book Center, Susan Bronson!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the president of the Yiddish Book Center, Susan Bronson!Susan discusses the history of the Yiddish Book Center, the different collections they have, upcoming exhibits, & much more!<...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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35:24
The Jewish Lens presents: the lead singer of Ottawan, Esther de Bijl-Langen!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the lead singer of Ottowan, Esther de Bijl-Langen!Esther discusses being part of Ottowan and having hits with Hands Up and D.I.S.C.O., discovering her Jewish roots, how her grandfather helped res...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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37:25
The Jewish Lens presents: the editor of The Practicing Writer Newsletter, Erika Dreifus!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the editor of The Practicing Writer Newsletter, Erika Dreifus!Erika discusses her popular newsletter, her books, Birthright: Poems, and Quiet Americans: Stories, being a board member of Artist...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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31:33
The Jewish Lens presents: award-winning author Barbara Bottner!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with award-winning author Barbara Bottner!Barbara discusses her writing career, the time she spent writing scripts for Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories and other TV shows, having lunch with Jim Hens...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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48:11
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of Chai Noon, Jonathan Friedmann!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with the author of Chai Noon, Jonathan Friedmann!Jonathan discusses his book about Jews in Westerns, Chai Noon, his podcast, Amusing Jews, the Jewish Museum of the American West, & much more!
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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50:32
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of The Delegation, Avner Landes!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the author of The Delegation, Avner Landes!Avner discusses his unique book The Delegation, which has three different layers of reading, being influenced by and compared to Saul Bellow, his wri...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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39:40
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of Go on Pretending, Alina Adams!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the author of Go on Pretending, Alina Adams!Alina discusses her book Go on Pretending, writing for Soap Operas, the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan in the Soviet Unio...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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50:03
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of Miriam’s Magical Creatures Files, Leah Cypess!
Join author Jonathan Rosen as he chats with the author of Miriam’s Magical Creatures Files, Leah Cypess!Leah discusses her new series Miriam's Magical Creature Files, the Sisters Ever After series, experiences while hiking in Costa Rica ...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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29:04
The Jewish Lens presents: the creator of The Heroes of October 7th Project, Hadassa Ben-Ari!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the creator of the Heroes of October 7th Project, Hadassa Ben-Ari!Hadassa discusses the Octber 7th Project, talking with kids about difficult subjects, selecting which stories to include in th...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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41:49
The Jewish Lens presents: the author of The Center of the Earth, Darlene Campos!
Join author Jonathan Rosen, as he chats with the author of The Center of the Earth, Darlene Campos!Darlene is joined by survivor Pete Phillips, as they discuss Darlene's book The Center of the Earth, how Ecuador took in Jewish refugees d...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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33:42