Saturday To Shabbos
Saturday to Shabbos presents real-life stories of people who’ve made their own journey to Jewish observance, the obstacles they overcame, and how the journey transformed them.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 174
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Lori Palatnik
Lori Palatnik is the founding director of Momentum, an organization that inspires and empowers women to connect to Jewish values, engage with Israel and ultimately transform themselves, their familie…
Wed 08 Feb 2023
Jason Blau
Jason Blau calls himself a mindset coach. Along his journey, he could have used some of the advice he now offers. Because he experienced stress and anxiety so deeply that it ultimately destroyed his …
Tue 31 Jan 2023
Barbara Irwin
As a young child, Barbara Irwin was raised in a family that didn’t keep Shabbos and didn’t know much about other Jewish practices. In fact, her earliest exposure to Jewish observance almost pushed he…
Thu 26 Jan 2023
Aliza Bulow 2
In part one of Jeff Cohen’s conversation with Aliza Bulow, she told the story of how she grew up in a non-Jewish home but converted to Judaism at the age of 16. And how, in no time at all, she was st…
Wed 18 Jan 2023
Aliza Bulow
Aliza Bulow’s Jewish journey weaves an intricate path through conversion to Judaism at a very young age and, much later, tragedy. That journey, which included stops in New York, Israel, Russia and De…
Wed 11 Jan 2023
Harvey Herbert
Harvey Herbert grew up Jewish, but so secular that he has memories of opening presents under an Xmas tree. A traumatic incident in a hospital was but one of the divine bread crumbs from Hashem that …
Wed 04 Jan 2023
Tuvia Sablosky
Thomas Sablosky, a secular Jew, became Tuvia Sablosky, an observant Jew, through an amazing journey that he believes was guided by Hashem. He’s here today to share that saga, including the obstacles …
Wed 28 Dec 2022
Aaron London
Aaron London had a dream to serve in the US military. Little did he know that he’d be serving Hashem as a nurse and educator while making the transition from agnostic to fully observant Jew. This is …
Thu 22 Dec 2022
Nissim Black – Live Edition
Nissim Black’s journey to Judaism is one of the most unlikely stories you’ll ever hear. He was born to two rappers, and lived in a home where drugs and violence were the norms. He also practised Isla…
Wed 14 Dec 2022
Aurus Sanchez
Aurus Sanchez underwent one of the most remarkable journeys to Jewish observance you’ll ever hear about. He was a Christian missionary with plans to convert Jews until he uncovered some crucial infor…
Mon 05 Dec 2022
Peter Himmelman
Peter Himmelman’s musical career has spanned more than four decades. His accomplishments are numerous and diverse; he’s a Grammy and Emmy-nominated solo artist, children’s songwriter, film and televi…
Thu 01 Dec 2022
Brian Silvey
Brian Silvey has engineered an impressive career in Information Technology. But he’s also engineered quite a journey to Jewish observance. That involved some pretty interesting twists and turns, incl…
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Jackie Danicki
Jackie Danicki is a business consultant and freelance journalist. Her writing has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Advertising Age, and the New York Observer. Danicki’s path to success has been inte…
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Daniel Tamir
Daniel Tamir knows a lot about Judaism … and about basketball. 6’ 10” inch Daniel played professional basketball for seven years in Israel and Hungary. But there’s more to his story than just dunks, …
Thu 10 Nov 2022
David and Shira Schwarz
David and Shira Schwarz went on a double journey to Jewish observance. They grew up in Conservative shuls, but they found their way to Orthodox Judaism, thanks in no small part to where they went to …
Tue 01 Nov 2022
Mindy Rubenstein
Mindy Rubenstein is a prolific writer. She’s published hundreds of articles in print and online, including for Chabad.org, Aish.com, Atlanta Jewish Times, and the Jerusalem Post. She’s also the found…
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Rabbi Meir Goldberg
Rabbi Meir Goldberg has spent nearly 20 years working with Jewish students at Rutgers University, with the goal of maximizing every Jewish student’s spiritual potential. The organization he founded, …
Wed 12 Oct 2022
Elyssa Nicole Trust
Elyssa Nicole Trust is an actor, writer, podcaster, and voice-over artist based in New York City. Elyssa wrote a play called Observance that explores how a hard-partying college student who initially…
Mon 19 Sep 2022
Binyomin Abrams
Binyomin Abrams is a Research Associate Professor, Master Lecturer and Director of General Chemistry at Boston University. And if you think that’s a mouthful, you can add Doctor of Theoretical Chemis…
Tue 13 Sep 2022
Emmett Gilles
Emmett Gilles worked two stints as a judicial law clerk for Federal judges. His long academic career, intertwined with a return to Torah Judaism, has led him to New Haven, Connecticut, where he’s rai…
Wed 07 Sep 2022
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