Cleveland Schmooze

This week we are talking to philanthropist Barbara Kupps, who calls herself a promoter of positivity. She told us about her work supporting organizations like the Friendship Circle of Cleveland and i…

This week we are talking to Leslie Robbins, a social worker with University Hospitals. She told us about growing up in an interfaith home and getting married to an interfaith partner. She also discus…

This week we are talking to Jon Miller Steiger, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's, East Central Region. He told us about his career in consumer protection, including during the coronavirus. …

This week we are talking to two branches of the Katz family, who recently held a large reunion in Cleveland. We met with Deborah Katz and Elise Norman Cundiff who are both descendants of the same fam…

This week we are talking to Cantor Aaron Shifman, who’s been with B'nai Jeshurun for over two decades. He is a sixth generation cantor and we talk to him about growing up in South Africa and about hi…

This week we are talking to Allie Kneitel, a certified Child Life specialist at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital. She tells us about working with children and their familie…

Last episode, we spoke to Sid Wakser, about his role with the Jewish War Veterans Paul A Rosenblum Post 44. This week, we talk to three women who are part of that post's Ladies Auxiliary. Bernice Rot…

This week we are talking to Sid Wakser about his role with the Jewish War Veterans Paul A Rosenblum Post 44. He tells us about his time in the military and how the group gives resources to veterans i…

This week is the second part of our conversation with Sheryl Hirsh, Assistant Director of Jewish Lifelong Learning at Case Western Reserve University. Last episode we learned that Sheryl lost her dau…

This week we are talking to Sheryl Hirsh, Assistant Director of Jewish Lifelong Learning at Case Western Reserve University. Sheryl lost her daughter to the opioid crisis in 2013 and has made it her …

This week we are talking to Rachel Gross, who, along with her sister, Sarah, is the new owner of Bialy's Bagels in University Heights. She tells us about her path to bagels, which funny enough, invol…

This week we are talking to Dr. Isaac Kirstein, dean of the Cleveland campus of Ohio University's Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. He tells us about his path to becoming dean and how his Jew…

This week we are talking to Marsha Aronovich, a physical therapist at the Cleveland VA. She tells us about her upbringing in Pittsburgh and how she found her Jewish community in Cleveland. We sat dow…

This week we are talking to Cathy Randall who loves games, especially mahjong. She tells us how she got interested in playing and about how the game bonds her with her family. We sat down with Cathy …

This week we are keeping it in the family by talking to Robin's husband and Rachel's dad, Dr. Mark Rood. We ask Mark about what it's like being a family physician who has served Northeast Ohio for ov…

This week we are talking about an all-night study session of Jewish learning, called Tikkun Leil Shavuot, with organizers Harriet Rosenberg Mann and Rabbi Hal Rudin-Luria. Tikkun has been held at Bna…

This week we are talking to Stu and Jay Davis, whose family has owned Davis Bakery since 1939. Anyone in Northeast Ohio knows you can't match the bakery's Jewish rye bread, coconut bars, Russia tea b…

This week we’re talking with Allison Solomon, Membership Director for Park Synagogue. She tells us about raising a family today in the Cleveland Jewish community and her role at a synagogue celebrati…

This week we’re talking with Dahlia Fisher, director of external relations at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. She’s also a writer who wrote a children’s book in coordination with the Museum call…