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Welcome to People Jew Wanna Know, a podcast sharing stories of remarkable Jewish people! Hosted by Margarita Lyadova, each episode features conversations with interesting Jewish guests of today and historical figures who’ve shaped Jewish culture and identity. Together, we seek answers to today's essential questions facing the Jewish people. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @peoplejewwannaknow for extras, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode. Support our work here: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknow
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- 5 days ago44 min
Building NYC's Magic Empire - Nadav Roet
Nadav Roet started doing magic at 4 years old in Israel, moved to Amsterdam to live in his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's hometown, and landed in New York — where he now runs The Bluff, the city's underground magic show built for the young, cool crowd. He's an award-winning mentalist featured in Cosmopolitan and New York magazine, and in this episode, Nadav will convince you that magic is the single coolest art form ever invented.Follow Nadav on socials @NadavRoet and @TheBluffNYCSupport our work: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknow**What We Discuss:**00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda02:00 Growing up in magic and building The Bluff06:30 The magic renaissance and why every party has a magician now11:00 A third-generation Holocaust survivor's Jewish identity14:00 Israeli skeptics vs. American audiences17:00 A live mind-reading trick (watch on video)24:00 Why magic is a proudly Jewish — but never insular — art form30:00 Magic Camp, meeting your heroes, and killing your darlings38:00 Where the female magicians are41:00 Do what you love, with what you have, and have fun43:00 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination
- 1 weeks ago34 min
Harrison Greenbaum: A Jewish Magician’s Guide to Reading People
Harrison Greenbaum does 900 shows a year. The Harvard grad turned comedian-magician has been called "the hardest working man in comedy." He's also the guy who wrote his college thesis on whether jokes can make people less racist. Turns out the answer is complicated — and there's one type of humor that can actually make prejudice *worse*.Harrison gets honest about the sharp rise in antisemitism showing up in his comments, the audience member who blurted "no" when he said he was Jewish, and why being a grandson of Holocaust survivors makes him want to talk about Jewish stuff *more*, not less. Plus: why so many magicians are terrible, and how to (maybe) reverse-pickpocket a mentalist.Follow Harrison on socials @harrisoncomedySupport our work: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknow**What We Discuss:**00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda02:09 From Magic Camp to Harvard's Jewish Fraternity06:30 The Secret Algorithm of 900 Shows a Year12:00 His Thesis on Whether Jokes Fight Prejudice17:30 Being a Jewish Comic in a Weirder Climate22:00 Running Off to Join Cirque du Soleil25:00 Why Every Magic Show Looks the Same29:00 The Reverse-Pickpocketing Sting Operation32:00 What the Jews Bring to Magic34:06 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination
- 2 weeks ago50 min
Chloe Hechter - People's Jewish American Princess
Chloe Hechter calls herself "the People's Jewish American Princess," and she means it as a mission, not a punchline. Former child actor, recovering sorority girl, and now a comedy creator with 300,000+ followers, she's spent years reclaiming an insult and turning private-school-summer-camp-Murray-Hill life into beloved sketches.But the skits are just the surface. Chloe opens up about exposure therapy for emetophobia starting at age ten, why she believes Jewish women have to be "ten toes down," and her sharpest take yet: that a lot of Jinsta creators are failing.Follow Chloe on all socials @ChloeHechterrSupport our work: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknowThis episode is brought to you by ReturnQueen, making your returns easy! Use promo code **PJWK50** on the ReturnQueen app for 50% off an Annual Membership—just $99 for the year (regularly $199.99). Your membership includes: 4 return pickups every monthUp to 12 items in your pickupOr, if you'd like to try ReturnQueen first, use promo code **FREERETURN** on the app for your first pickup free!💜 Download the ReturnQueen app and let them handle your returns—and your resale. Follow ReturnQueen on Socials @return.queen**What We Discuss:**00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda04:00 Reclaiming Jewish American Princess06:30 Becoming a full-time content creator post Syracuse13:00 Why Chloe wants to manage her own socials15:00 Growing up the Jewish girl at theater camp18:00 Emetophobia and exposure therapy24:00 The camp meds line28:00 American Jews and the myth of the golden age32:00 Jewish girls and the trends they started40:00 Chloe's upcoming book, being a woman in the creator space, and why Jinsta ghettoizes Jews49:00 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination
- 3 weeks ago44 min
The Power of Quiet Confidence - Yardenne Greenspan
Yardenne Greenspan is a Tel Aviv-born writer and Hebrew translator whose work appears in numerous publications and has earned notable awards. She's married to Shai Davidai (yes, that one — Activist, former Columbia professor, and Margarita's viral early guest), but she's built her own formidable kind of activism: humanizing Israelis one carefully chosen word at a time. She's the person you drift toward at every Jewish event without quite knowing why.In this episode, Margarita and Yardenne discuss the importance of translation, the true reality of activism, and how to always take the high road. Follow Yardenne on Instagram @YardenneGreenspanSupport our work: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknowWhat We Discuss:00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda03:27 Growing Up Secular in Tel Aviv07:15 Meeting Shai & Moving to America10:30 Post-Mortems on Activism14:00 The Twitter Fight & Refusing the Bait19:45 Translation as a Form of Activism26:00 Vulnerability as Strength30:30 Raising Kids Under Attack36:00 Translating Trauma in Kazakhstan41:00 Message to the Jewish People44:03 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination
- Aug 19, 202643 min
Eitan Levine - Looking For Allies Before Enemies
Eitan Levine - you know him, you love him. He's a popular Jewish comedian, political commentator, and the man behind the beloved "Jewish or Antisemitic" series. This episode goes deeper than expected. Eitan opens up about the sarcoma that shaped his teens and twenties. He also delivers a blistering and hilarious critique of how Jewish organizations spent money after October 7th — and why he thinks it backfired.Follow @eitanthegoalie on Instagram and check out his work at www.eitanlevine.comSupport our work: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknowWhat We Discuss:00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda03:41 From celebrity journalism to Jewish comedy06:00 Cancer at ten and the Russian leg-lengthening device14:00 Manischewitz Matchmakers and reinjecting Jewish joy23:00 Why the post-October 7th messaging failed30:00 Watching Trump press conferences from a bomb shelter33:00 Jewish or Antisemitic: New York City edition38:00 Find allies before enemies40:00 Brad Lander, endorsements, and showing up in city government43:00 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination
- Aug 12, 202633 min
"Zionists for Zohran" with Adam Malev
Adam Malev has performed at over 1,000 stand-up shows, built an app that maps every open mic in New York City, and once did a full minute of 9/11 jokes on Kill Tony. He's a proud Zionist, the self-proclaimed last Jew in his family's lineage, and — brace yourself — a genuine, non-satirical Zohran Mamdani voter.Margarita was sure the "Zionist for Zohran" bit was a joke. It is not. This episode is a real-time reckoning, a lot of laughing, and zero eye-to-eye. They stay friends anyway.Follow Adam on Instagram @adammalev & @malevcomedySupport our work: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknowWhat We Discuss:00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda05:04 From EY consultant to full-time comedian07:30 Building Comediq, the open mic app09:00 Last Jew in the family 13:00 Zionist for Zohran, explained (and not satire)17:00 Affordability, potholes, and the case for Mamdani20:00 Synagogue buffer zones and Jewish safety24:00 The @Antisemitism account and manufactured outrage27:00 Kill Tony regrets and the Jewish Kanye West31:30 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination
- Aug 5, 202642 min
Transcending Hate w/Arno Michaelis (former white supremacist)
Arno Michaelis is a former Neo-Nazi turned activist, writer, and tremendous ally to the Jewish people. He was a founding member of a racist skinhead crew, lead singer of a hate metal band, reverend in a violently antisemitic church — and then he walked away, worn down by exhaustion and undone by the kindness of the people he was taught to hate. Today he's a Buddhist, an author, and a peer specialist at Parents for Peace who talks pissed-off young men out of the abyss for a living.In this episode, Arno explains why every extremist ideology, left or right, eventually converges on hating Jews. And why that's not a Jewish problem to solve.Follow Arno on Instagram @ArnoMichaelis and check out www.parents4peace.org Support our work: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknowWhat We Discuss:00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda02:45 Storytelling and the work of Parents for Peace07:30 The archetype of "Joe Pissed Off White Kid"11:00 Arno's childhood, addiction, and the roller coaster of hate18:00 The night his newborn daughter changed everything22:00 Regret vs. remorse — the mechanism of real change25:00 How white nationalism recruits today31:00 Why every extremist ideology converges on Jew hatred36:00 Whose problem antisemitism actually is39:00 Arno's question to Margarita 41:00 Closing Remarks
- Jul 29, 202648 min
Raheel Raza on Muslims and Jews in an Age of Tension
Raheel Raza is a Pakistani-Canadian author, journalist, and president of Muslims Facing Tomorrow. She'll help you understand everything you'd like to know about Radical Islam. She's testified at the UN, spoken at Harvard and Oxford, and visited Israel 14 times. She also happens to be one of the warmest humans you'll ever meet.This is the conversation where Margarita finally gets to ask the questions that feel too "icky" to ask — about dhimmitude, about why Western Muslim leaders skew extreme, and about how Jews and Muslims can actually still be friends. Raheel answers every single one with patience and zero PC filter.Learn more about Raheel's work at www.raheelraza.comSupport our work: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknowWhat We Discuss:00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda02:30 From Karachi to Canada — finding the Jewish world through Anne Frank05:10 Why the Jewish-Muslim conflict isn't religious07:40 Inside the Council of Muslims Against Antisemitism11:00 Defeat radical Islamism, defeat antisemitism15:30 Hadith-based Islam and the politics of extremism20:00 What the Palestinian diaspora gets wrong, and the promise of the Abraham Accords24:30 What Jews can actually do — Rabbi Sacks, samosas, and culinary diplomacy32:00 Canada's "polite pogrom" and the Mamdani problem38:00 Dhimmitude vs. reform Islam44:00 Raheel's three-question litmus test for any Muslim you meet49:00 Closing Remarks
About People Jew Wanna Know
Welcome to People Jew Wanna Know, a podcast sharing stories of remarkable Jewish people! Hosted by Margarita Lyadova, each episode features conversations with interesting Jewish guests of today and historical figures who’ve shaped Jewish culture and identity. Together, we seek answers to today's essential questions facing the Jewish people. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @peoplejewwannaknow for extras, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode. Support our work here: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknow
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