The Frieda Vizel Podcast

By Frieda Vizel

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Welcome to in-depth conversations on Hasidism, Judaism, NYC, culture, education, religion and more!

This podcast is hosted by popular Youtuber Frieda Vizel, who has been studying the Hasidic community for more than ten years.

This is the podcast version of the video conversations which are also published on Youtube. Please reach out with feedback.

Here's the youtube channel if you prefer to see the host and guests! :)

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Episode Date
She doesn't regret her comments | Satmar anti-zionist Pearl
Jun 14, 2026
When life is like weaving a quilt | Dovid Bashevkin
Jun 07, 2026
From Orthodox in Israel to an Academic studying the community | Yossi David
May 31, 2026
Inside an Amish school day | Lovina Zook
May 24, 2026
From Amish life to millions of followers on social media | Lovina Zook
May 17, 2026
Raw thoughts while sitting in my car in Kiryas Joel [on Mother's Day]
May 10, 2026
Riki Rose on the Frieda Vizel Podcast live! 5/5/26 5pm ET
May 06, 2026
Riki Rose and Frieda Vizel play nostalgic Hasidic children's games
May 03, 2026
Naomi Seidman on Frieda Vizel Podcast, LIVE 4/29/26 3pm ET
Apr 30, 2026
Meet this INCREDIBLE young Jewish collector | Samuel Marks
Apr 19, 2026
An amazing collection of Rare Talmuds! | Samuel Marks
Apr 19, 2026
She left Hasidic Boro Park | Melissa Weisz's story
Apr 16, 2026
Being a lefty lesbian Jewish comic in 2026 is crazy | Judy Gold
Apr 12, 2026
Hasidic Jews once thrived in Poland | Historian Glenn Dynner
Apr 05, 2026
From the oldest Hagaddahs to a Hasidic sedar that ends 4am | David Akerman, Yiddishkeit
Mar 29, 2026
My Hasidic Passover Memories
Mar 25, 2026
Baily prepares for Passover [comedian Leah Forster]
Mar 22, 2026
"My experience as a Pediatric Pulminologist with the Hasidic population" | Dr. Lynne Quittel
Mar 15, 2026
From the hospital bedside
Mar 08, 2026
Just a messenger? A Jewish interpreter at international organizations
Mar 04, 2026
From a Soviet upbringing to Jewish identity | Dan’s story
Mar 01, 2026
Mayor Mamdani and the Jews | Jacob Kornbluh
Feb 22, 2026
The beloved bubby answers your questions | Pearl from Williamsburg
Feb 18, 2026
Living and leaving Jehova's Witness | Miriam Vidal
Feb 15, 2026
Reading your comments and more stories, kinderlech #3
Feb 11, 2026
Surviving the Bondi Beach terror attack | Rabbi Yosef Eichenblatt
Feb 01, 2026
"Jewish children don't fight!" | 1977 Yiddish reader story #2
Jan 28, 2026
The Wedding Night documentary | Rachel Elitzur
Jan 25, 2026
A Jehova's Witness church INSIDE the Jewish village Kiryas Joel
Jan 21, 2026
The kinds of industries Hasidic Jews work in
Jan 18, 2026
Watching and reacting to the Tyler Oliveria viral video on Kiryas Joel
Jan 16, 2026
An eye-opening 1977 Yiddish book of female socialization #1
Jan 13, 2026
The original dissidents of Kiryas Joel | Michael Sussman
Jan 11, 2026
The oral histories of Bukharian Jews | Abe and Mazal
Jan 04, 2026
My most candid conversation yet | On the Avrum Rosenzweig show
Dec 24, 2025
Laughing through cancer | Leah Forster
Dec 07, 2025
Bonus, livestream: Why I posted and then pulled the video of the bride dancing
Dec 07, 2025
Bonus, livestream: We Had Never Touched. Then Came Our Wedding Night. | Rachel Elitzur Opdoc discussion
Dec 06, 2025
Jewish law on abortion and inferitily | Pt 2 R' Ysoscher Katz
Nov 30, 2025
Jewish law on contraception & masturbation | Pt 1 R' Ysoscher Katz
Nov 23, 2025
The power of Yiddish children's stories to shape our world | Miriam Udel
Nov 09, 2025
The Get / My divorce 💔
Oct 26, 2025
Ex-Hasidic star Riki Rose faces her past in Williamsburg
Oct 19, 2025
Yom Kippur attack, antisemitism in the UK, more | Izzy Posen
Oct 12, 2025
Jews, magic, and the kosher arts | Dovy the Magician
Sep 28, 2025
From Berlin to Satmar Williamsburg | 95 year old Nelly Grussgott
Sep 21, 2025
Hasidic women fight to form a female EMS | Paula Eiselt
Sep 14, 2025
Are both sides condemned to kill each other forever? | Rabbi Mayer Schiller
Sep 07, 2025
On Yiddish, Suicide and more | Mattel from Multisingual
Aug 24, 2025
Grab your popcorn, we're talking Jewish movies | David Akerman
Aug 17, 2025
Should Jews return to blood soaked Poland? | Naomi Seidman
Aug 10, 2025
Hasidic women’s modesty and clothing traditions | Pearl
Aug 03, 2025
"I never felt female and didn't fit in that world" | Naomi Seidman
Jul 20, 2025
The Rebbitzen reveals her identity | Danielle Jacobs
Jun 22, 2025
Why I left activism for Hasidic education | Naftuli Moster
Jun 15, 2025
Workout culture coming to the Ultra Orthodox world | Shmilly Feldman
Jun 08, 2025
What it's like to grow up in Kiryas Joel | An essay by Frieda Vizel
May 25, 2025
Are Jews allowed to fight? | a controversial discussion with anti-Zionist Hasidic woman Pearl
May 18, 2025
Living on the border and creating the hit TV show Shtisel | Yehonatan Indursky
May 04, 2025
What it was like to grow up Amish | Martha Ross
Apr 27, 2025
Reading the Yiddish children's version of the Book of Exodus
Apr 15, 2025
Bonus: music video 'Mein Kind' referenced in my essay on the stories we tell
Apr 06, 2025
Unorthodox vs the OTHER story | How we talk about people who leave insular societies
Apr 06, 2025
A visually impaired Hasidic woman tells her story | Rochel Bodek
Mar 23, 2025
A historian's warning | Anna Shternshis
Mar 16, 2025
A revolution in Yiddish arts & theater by Hasidim | Ari Abromowitz
Mar 09, 2025
I grew up in Kiryas Joel and embraced plant medicine
Feb 23, 2025
"I craved religion and even tried Christianity" | In Conversation with comedian Antonia Lassar
Feb 16, 2025
🚨 For women, girls, AND men and boys | In conversation with Jessica Roda
Feb 09, 2025
"I risk everything when speaking out as a woman in Kiryas Joel" | Exclusive interview with Fradel Neuman
Jan 26, 2025
Messiah Energy and Wholesome Comedy | Interview with Modi Rosenfeld
Jan 19, 2025
My Chanukah Memories | Reading: Circumcised Chanukah Gifts
Dec 29, 2024
Sex ed in the Hasidic community | A Hasidic grooms receives the birds and the bees talk
Nov 24, 2024
The intersection of Sex and Piety | In Conversation with Intimacy Coach Peggy Greenfield
Nov 23, 2024
A battle for land between Hasidim and their neighbors | In conversation with Jesse Sweet
Nov 03, 2024
The Talmud as a Door | In Conversation with Miriam Anzovin
Oct 26, 2024
A Jew from today, but from yesterday... | In Conversation with Lea Kalisch
Oct 12, 2024
Reflections a year after October 7th; stream of consciousness sharing
Oct 08, 2024
Can we call her a Hasidic feminist? | Interview with Hasidic Influencer Raizy Fried
Oct 08, 2024
The complicated relationship between animals and Orthodox Jews | discussing myths with Mendel Hersh Paneth
Sep 29, 2024
When one half of a town turns on the other | Interview with Director Igor Golyak
Sep 08, 2024
What life is like for a Hasidic lady in the Catskills today | With comedian Leah Forster
Aug 04, 2024
A Bungalow Colony for Survivors I In Conversation with Director Andrew Jacobs
Jul 21, 2024
He returned to live in the most insular Israeli enclave after leaving it | Tuvia Tenonbom Interview
Jun 30, 2024
"No one had a grandfather" | Gita recounts the Hasidic community after the holocaust
Jun 16, 2024
"We hid the piano from my Hasidic father" | The Singer Riki Rose shares her story
Jun 02, 2024
Yiddish versus Hebrew the battle of two Jewish languages | In Conversation with Eddy Portnoy
May 08, 2024
Why do we love to talk about Cults? | In Conversation with Guinevere Turner
Apr 06, 2024
The Chained Wife / the Jewish Aguna Crisis | In Conversation with Keshet Starr
Mar 17, 2024
The Satmar Rebbe's Life and Controversial Anti-Zionism | In Conversation with Rabbi Ysoscher Katz
Mar 10, 2024
What are Hasidic Jewish SECTS?
Mar 07, 2024
Am I disrespectful?
Feb 25, 2024
The Secret Stories of Hidden Heretics | In Conversation with Ayala Fader
Feb 08, 2024
Do Hasidic Jews Vaccinate? | Dr Howard Rosman, Pediatrician to Hasidic Community, in Conversation
Jan 22, 2024
"The Get" A Personal Essay
Jan 17, 2024
Satmar versus Naturei Karte's antizionism (audio-only)
Jan 15, 2024
"My Story of Growing Up and Leaving Hasidism" | In Conversation with Eli Benedict
Jan 09, 2024
Rules for Hasidic Girls Issued by Satmar School, Part 2
Dec 19, 2023
Understanding Orthodox Jewish Anti-Zionism | In Conversation with David Biale
Dec 15, 2023
Yossi Desser Musical Guest Discussion & Live Performance of YomTov Ehrlich, Belz, more
Dec 14, 2023
Top Hasidic Music Videos - 16 Selections
Dec 05, 2023
Two Dates and a Wedding - Hasidic Matchmaking Customs
Dec 01, 2023
Why do Hasidic Women SHAVE their heads?
Dec 01, 2023
"My Childhood as a Hasidic Boy" | In Conversation with Izzy Posen
Nov 27, 2023
Rules for Hasidic Girls Issued by Satmar School, Part 1
Nov 14, 2023
The Truth About Hasidic Jews and the Internet | A Documentary
Nov 08, 2023
An Orthodox Female Comedian | In Conversation with Leah Forster
Oct 20, 2023
Eli Benedict on Life in Israel Since the Gruesome Attacks
Oct 10, 2023
What Hasidic Boys Learn | In Conversation with Moshe Krakowski
Sep 04, 2023
The History of Hasidism | In Conversation with David Biale on "Hasidism, A New History"
Aug 22, 2023
More Q&A with the Hasidic Housewife PEARL
Aug 07, 2023
The Famous PEARL Answers Your Questions
Aug 02, 2023
Hasidim, Ex-Hasidim and Dogs | In Conversation with Naomi Seidman
Jun 25, 2023
Do Ex-Hasidim Get Shunned? | In Conversation with Zalman Newfield
Jun 18, 2023
In Conversation with Steve Milligan, My Youtube Channel's Editor
May 02, 2023
"Why I joined the Hasidic community" | The story of Sara Braun
Apr 03, 2023
Hasidic Boys' Education Controversy | In Conversation with Eli Spitzer
Mar 24, 2023
In Conversation with Steven Nolt on Amish Society
Feb 13, 2023
In Conversation on "Heretic in the House" with Naomi Seidman
Dec 01, 2022
In conversation with Gerry Albarelli, former Hasidic boys' English teacher
Jun 07, 2022
A special visit to Williamsburg with writer and former resident Phillip Lopate
May 18, 2022
Izzy Posen and Frieda Vizel live zoom conversation on Post-Haredi life, identity and relations
Apr 02, 2022
Interview with Harry Weiss, former Williamsburg resident
Feb 02, 2022
Shpanier Arbet / Jewish garment art with Elena Solomon
Jan 13, 2022
In Conversation with Nathaniel Deutsch, Co-author of 'A Fortress in Brooklyn'
Dec 28, 2021
Interview with Nelly Grussgott on post-war Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Sep 23, 2021