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Behind the Bima
Rabbis Efrem Goldberg and Philip Moskowitz from Boca Raton Synagogue, shmooze about contemporary issues. Every week features an unscripted and lively discussion, special guests, and a behind-the-scenes look at leading a large and dynamic Jewish community.
Episodes
- Behind the Bima
Special Guest - Rabbi David Fohrman
Rabbi David Fohrman is an internationally renowned lecturer on biblical themes, and the founder and principal educator at Aleph Beta. He has served as an…
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Special Guest - Judge Dan Butler
Audiences all over North America have been bowled over by Butler’s personal and professional perspectives, his whirlwind delivery, gentle humor, and remarkable…
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Bonus Episode: Out of the Shadows - A Jewish Approach to Mental Health
Introducing the first episode of Out of the Shadows: A Jewish Approach to Mental Health. Subscribe to the monthly podcast and let us know if you have any…
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Special Guest - Shlomo Katz
Shlomo Katz (Hebrew: שלמה כץ) is a contemporary religious Jewish singer in Israel. Shlomo Katz was born in New Jersey, the son of Chazan Avsholom Katz. His…
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Celebrating the 100th Episode and Special Eitan Katz
This episode celebrates 100 episodes of the show! From Coffee Talk to Behind the Bima, a lot has changed, but so much has stayed the same. Tune in to hear…
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Special Guest - Dr. Jonathan Donath, Founder of Daily Giving
Daily Giving's mission is to enable every Jew to easily perform the mitzvah of tzedaka every single day, and to disperse those funds to deserving Jewish…
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Special Guests - Bat-Galim & Ofir Shaer
Bat Galim Shaer is an educator and public figure, married to Ofir and mother to 5 daughters and one son - the late Gil-ad z’’l - who was murdered by Hamas…
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Special Guest - Dan Grunfeld
Daniel Leslie Grunfeld is an American professional basketball player, who last played as a small forward for Bnei Herzliya in the Israeli Basketball Premier…
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Special Guest - Chava Willig Levy
Chava Willig Levy is an award-winning author and an advocate for individuals with disabilities. As a person who gets around in a motorized wheelchair, she has…
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Special Guest - R' Moshe Meir Weiss
Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss is a prolific speaker and a student of Rav Moshe Feinstein. He served as a rabbi in Staten Island for decades and currently lives and…
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Special Guest - Hillel Fuld
Hillel Fuld is an American Israeli technology blogger, vlogger, business advisor, and international speaker. Fuld's work focuses on the Israeli high tech…
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Special Guests - Dovi Safier & Yehuda Geberer
Dovi Safier is a business professional who enjoys researching unexplored chapters of Jewish history, with a primary focus on the yeshivos of the interwar…
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Special Guest - Saul Blinkoff, Animator
Our Guest: Saul (https://saulblinkoff.com/) began his career as an animator for the WALT DISNEY STUDIOS working on the hit films Pocahontas, The Hunchback of…
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Special Guest - Elisheva Liss, LMFT
Elisheva Liss, LMFT is a psychotherapist in private practice, an author, lecturer, and digital educator. Her book, Find Your Horizon of Healthy Thinking…
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Special Guest - R' Berel Wein
Rabbi Berel Wein, the founder and director of the Destiny Foundation since 1996, has, for over 25 years, been identified with the popularization of Jewish…
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Special Guest - Rabbi Mark Wildes
Rabbi Mark Wildes was ordained from Yeshiva University, but before becoming a rabbi, he received a JD from the Cardozo School of Law and a Masters in…
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Special Guest - Sam Ron, Holocaust Survivor
Sam Ron and Jack Waksal were prisoners in the Holocaust together and recently united after 79 years. Connect with Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: Website…
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Special Guest - Coach Bruce Pearl
Bruce Alan Pearl (born March 18, 1960) is an American college basketball coach, and the head coach of the Auburn Tigers men's basketball program. A video of…
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Special Guest - Naomi Nachman
As cooking has always been her passion, in 2004, Naomi started her own kosher personal chef business, The Aussie Gourmet, to pursue cater weekly and…
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Special Guests - Rabbi Yechiel Levitansky (Ukraine) and Rabbi Yaakov Gibber (BJC)
R. Yechiel Slomo Levitansky was born in Los-Angeles in 1974. He lives at present in Sumy, Ukraine with his wife and 6 children. As a rabbi his activity is the…
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Special Guests - Rabbis & Staff of BRS: BRS Global Campaign Marathon Episode
Partner with us at www.brsonline.org/global. A marathon episode, running for over 3.5 hours, celebrating the great talent behind BRS. Hosts Rabbis Efrem…
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Special Guests - R' Eli Stefansky, With an Update from Ukraine with Refael Kruskal of Odessa
Show your support for BRS and donate to our BRS Global campaign at www.brsonline.org/global. Rabbi Eli Stefansky was raised in New York and Bnei Brak. A…
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Special Guest - R' Dovid Bashevkin
R' Dovid Bashevkin is the director of education for NCSY, the youth movement of the Orthodox Union, and an instructor at Yeshiva University, where he teaches…
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Special Guest - Ilana Toweg, Farmer Observing Shmitah
American-born and Canadian-raised, Ilana moved to Israel when she was 18, only taking on the agricultural life after her marriage 25 years ago to her…
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Special Guest - R' Eli Mansour
Rabbi Mansour is currently the Rabbi of The Edmond J Safra Synagogue in Brooklyn, New York. He started his Yeshiva education at Magen David Yeshiva, which was…
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Special Guest - Myron Sugerman
Myron Sugerman was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1938, and at the age of twenty-one he followed his father's footsteps into the family business--Coin-operated…
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Special Guest - R' Yitzchak Adlerstein
R. Yitzchak Adlerstein is the co-founder of Cross-Currents, an online journal of Orthodox Jewish thought, and regularly contributes to that site. He also on…
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Special Guest - Bob Diener, Co-Founder of Hotels.com
Bob Diener is the co-founder and President of getaroom.com, and co-founder and past President of hotels.com. After receiving his law degree from Cornell where…
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Bonus Episode: Halachic Man - HaRav Herschel Schachter Shlit"a
A conversation with Rabbis Herschel Schacter and Efrem Goldberg. The conversation took place as part of an Amudim program called Unite to Heal. For more, check…
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Special Guest - Nissim Black
Nissim Baruch Black (born Damian Jamohl Black; December 9, 1986) is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He retired in 2011 to focus on his…
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Special Guests - YU Macs Coach Steinmetz & Ryan Turell
Yeshiva University announced Elliot Steinmetz as its head men's basketball coach on April 28, 2014. Steinmetz, a 2002 graduate of YU's Sy Syms School of…
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Special Guest - Joseph Gitler, Founder of Leket
Joseph Gitler is a graduate of Yeshiva University and Fordham University Law School. After making aliyah in 2000, he worked for three years as Director of…
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Special Guest - Dara Horn
Dara Horn is the award-winning author of six books, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002), The World to Come (Norton 2006), All Other Nights (Norton…
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Special Guest - Justice Richard Bernstein
Justice Richard Bernstein became the first blind justice, elected by voters statewide, to the Michigan Supreme Court in November 2014. With a commitment to…
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Special Guest - R' Mordechai Machlis
R' Machlis is a truly righteous man, a teacher both by profession and by his very life. He hosts 200 people in his home every shabbos and has inspired…
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Special Guest - Dovid Lichtenstein
Dovid Lichtenstein is an American billionaire entrepreneur and real estate investor. He is the founder and CEO of The Lightstone Group, which he founded in…
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Special Guest - Jamie Geller
Jamie Geller is an Israeli-American food writer, celebrity chef, television producer and businesswoman. She has been called "The Kosher Rachael Ray" by the…
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Special Guest - Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau
David Baruch Lau (Hebrew: דוד לאו; born 13 January 1966) is the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. He was appointed after achieving a majority of the vote on…
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Special Guest - R' YY Jacobson
R. Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, also known as YY Jacobson, is an American Chabad rabbi and speaker from Monsey, New York. Jacobson served as editor-in-chief of the…
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Special Guest - Professor Ruth Wisse
Professor Ruth Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emeritus. She is a…
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Special Guest - Avraham Fried
Avraham Shabsi Hakohen Friedman (Hebrew: אברהם שבתי הכהן, born March 22, 1959) better known by his stage name, Avraham Fried, is a popular musical entertainer…
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Special Guest - Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28, 1969) is an American business executive, billionaire and philanthropist. Sandberg serves as the Chief Operating Officer…
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Special Guest, Rabbi Moshe Weinberger (Second Visit)
Rav Moshe Weinberger, shlit'a, has served as Mashpia in Yeshiva University since 2013, and is the founding Morah d'Asrah of Congregation Aish Kodesh in…
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Special Guest - Mariano Rivera, MLB Hall of Famer
Mariano Rivera (born November 29, 1969) is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for…
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Special Guest - Yosef Mendelevich, Renowned Russian Refusenik
Yosef Mendelevitch (b. 1947 in Riga), was a refusenik from the former Soviet Union, also known as a "Prisoner of Zion" and now a politically unaffiliated rabbi…
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Bonus Episode: Roundup #2
Roundup of second 30 episodes. Connect with Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: Website: https://rabbiefremgoldberg.org/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/efrem.goldberg…
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Bonus Episode: Roundup #1
This roundup episode of the first 30 episodes includes: Michael Goldsmith Moms of the Hosts Russell Galbut Modi R. Shay Schachter Marvel Joseph R. Aaron Kotler…
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Special Guests - Father and Son - Rabbi Manis & Benny Friedman
R. Manis Friedman (full name: Menachem Manis HaKohen Friedman, Hebrew: מנחם מניס הכהן פרידמן; born 1946) is a Chabad Lubavitch Hassid, Shliach, rabbi, author…
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Special Guest - Beatie Deutsch, Marathon Runner
Bracha “Beatie” Deutsch (ברכה דויטש; née Rabin; born August 29, 1989) is a Haredi American-Israeli marathon runner. She has won the Tiberias Marathon and the…
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Special Guest - Dr. Leah Goldin, Mother of Hamas Captive, Hadar Goldin A''H
Dr. Leah Goldin received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technion (Haifa, Israel). She serves as CEO of Golden Solutions, an independent consulting firm…
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Special Guests - Rep. Ritchie Torres (D) and Joseph Borgen
Rep. Ritchie Torres, a self described progressive democrat, has been enormously supportive of Israel and in speaking out against Antisemitism. The result was…
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Special Guest - Disco Rabbi, R. Yitzchak Dovid Grossman
Rabbis Efrem Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Broide, from Boca Raton Synagogue, shmooze about contemporary issues. Every week features an unscripted and…
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Special Guest - Yedidya Harush, Live From Gaza Border
In this time of crisis and need, donate for a bomb shelter in Israel here. Rabbis Efrem Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Broide, from Boca Raton Synagogue…
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Special Guest - R. Benji Levene
Rabbis Efrem Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Broide, from Boca Raton Synagogue, shmooze about contemporary issues. Every week features an unscripted and…
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Special Guest - Matthew Hiltzik
Rabbis Efrem Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Broide, from Boca Raton Synagogue, shmooze about contemporary issues. Every week features an unscripted and…
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Behind Behind the Bima
A look behind the scenes and questions from the crowd. Rabbis Efrem Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Broide, from Boca Raton Synagogue, shmooze about…
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Special Guest - Robert Kraft, Owner of Patriots
Rabbis Efrem Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Broide, from Boca Raton Synagogue, shmooze about contemporary issues. Every week features an unscripted and…
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Special Guest - Ruth Lichtenstein, Editor-in-Chief of Hamodia & Founder of Project Witness
Rabbis Efrem Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Broide, from Boca Raton Synagogue, shmooze about contemporary issues. Every week features an unscripted and…
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Special Guest - R. Sholem Fishbane, CRC Kashrus
Rabbis Efrem Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Broide, from Boca Raton Synagogue, shmooze about contemporary issues. Every week features an unscripted and…
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Special Guest - Sruli Besser
Rabbis Efrem Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Broide, from Boca Raton Synagogue, shmooze about contemporary issues. Every week features an unscripted and…