Episodes

  • She was trapped in an abusive marriage for 15 years

    She was trapped in an abusive marriage for 15 years
    Aug 5 2024

    Fraidy Reiss was trapped in an abusive marriage, which was arranged, for fifteen years before she could liberate herself.

    She then went on to found an organization, Unchained at Last, to help liberate other women from forced arranged marriages. In her free time, she advocates to ban underaged marriages across all 50 states.
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    19 mins
  • Hasidic artists in Brooklyn bring the golden age of cantorial music into the digital age

    Hasidic artists in Brooklyn bring the golden age of cantorial music into the digital age
    Apr 15 2024

    By Jon Kalish for Shtetl

    Apr 11, 2024 3:00 PM

    “What does a Jew sound like?”

    To Jeremiah Lockwood, an innovative musician with a doctorate in Jewish Studies, one answer to that question comes from a group of Hasidic musical artists in Brooklyn.

    This group is now keeping alive a musical style perfected by virtuosic cantors a century ago, but which has largely faded from the synagogue scene in which it originates.

    Listen to Jon Kalish report on this group of young chazanim in Brooklyn:

    https://www.shtetl.org/article/hasidic-artists-brooklyn-cantorial-music-digital-age
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    20 mins