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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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  • Watching and reacting to the Tyler Oliveria viral video on Kiryas Joel

    Watching and reacting to the Tyler Oliveria viral video on Kiryas Joel
    Jan 16 2026
    Video version here: https://youtu.be/ZlWRN4jo-CA

    As someone who grew up in Kiryas Joel and left the fold, I have a lot to say on this Hasidic village. There's good and bad. There are issues, and yes there are valid criticisms on its relationship to the welfare system, although this doesn't take away from the facts: that this is a community where the vast majority of men are gainfully employed and work incredibly hard. The stereotypes of this community as "welfare queens" whose men study torah and don't work is so damaging and not true. @TylerOliveira 's recent video will so deeply reinforce these misconceptions. I've done a video where I went through the phone book and showed the extensive numbers of businesses Hasidim are into. It's so sad that his platform will create so much misrepresentation.

    This is my first take reaction to his video. Please forgive my early morning rants and rambles. I am watching it raw with you. I find it quite upsetting and ignorant. I hope my deep feelings that this community is complicated, imperfect, should be criticized but is also often misrepresented comes through. This is long - well Tyler's video is long.

    Please watch some of my other videos, especially my video on how Hasidim earn a living.
    https://youtu.be/UXXOGYqbK5o

    What it was like for me to grow up in Kiryas Joel
    https://youtu.be/uHu_17N9GdE

    My interview with Fradel Newman, lifetime resident of Kiryas Joel
    https://youtu.be/HoTzWaF7dU8

    Interview with civil rights lawyer Michael Sussman, who can really speak for some of the dark side
    https://youtu.be/jcz0xmkm10s

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    1 h y 38 m
  • 1977 Yiddish Girls' Reader / A quiant relic

    1977 Yiddish Girls' Reader / A quiant relic
    Jan 13 2026
    Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/qUDGHnwTUPw

    Follow along with the pdf of the story here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JCIYkr489nAvNDZQapUJ9UzTdmeCpt-8/view?usp=sharing

    Let me read to you some Yiddish from 1977 and unpack the values and worldview of the Hasidic young girls through the moral lessons presented in this book. See how they were introduced to social values of obedience, kindness, respect to the elders, safety, trust in each other, modesty, and more.

    Please let me know what you think I missed.

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    35 m
  • The original dissidents of Kiryas Joel | Michael Sussman

    The original dissidents of Kiryas Joel | Michael Sussman
    Jan 11 2026
    Video link to this interview: https://youtu.be/jcz0xmkm10s

    The Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel’s early days in the 1970s and 80s were anything but quiet. They were marked by infighting, lawsuits, dissidents, and a legal battle so consequential it’s still taught in American law schools today.

    In this interview, I speak with lawyer Michael Sussman, the man who came to represent some of Kiryas Joel’s most outspoken internal critics during its formative years. Though he was neither Hasidic nor Orthodox, Sussman became deeply entangled in the village’s internal struggles—so much so that, to many of us growing up there, his name became part of the folklore. There was even a dissident synagogue nicknamed the Sussman Shul.

    This conversation explores the early legal wars that shaped Kiryas Joel: battles over governance, power, dissent, and most famously, the creation of a public school for children with special needs. That case—Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet—went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and sits at the uneasy intersection of religious freedom and the separation of church and state.

    I also approach this story personally. Kiryas Joel is where I grew up and spent 25 formative years of my life. I married at 18, became a mother to my son Seth shortly after, and absorbed these conflicts as background noise to childhood—names, sides, “politics” that hovered at the edges of daily life. As an adult, I’ve returned to this history with new questions and a deeper curiosity about how insular religious subcultures navigate American law.
    This interview is part of a broader attempt to document the oral histories of Kiryas Joel’s early years. I have made repeated efforts to reach figures from the other side of these disputes to record their recollections as well, but so far without success. That invitation remains open.

    If you want to go deeper into this story, here are essential resources:
    Book — American Shtetl
    https://amzn.to/49Lmz5z

    Documentary — City of Joel
    https://amzn.to/4soIDKC

    Archival footage collected by dissident Joseph Waldman:
    https://www.youtube.com/@thekingofaron

    Website for Michael Sussman:
    https://www.sussman.law/

    This is a story about Kiryas Joel, but it’s also a story about America: about pluralism, law, dissent, and the price of making space for radically different ways of life under one constitutional roof.


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    1 h y 18 m
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