Who The Folk?! Podcast
This is the Podcast home of TC Jewfolk's Who The Folk?! Podcast. Hear from interesting Members of the Tribe from all over the Minneapolis and St. Paul area.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 318
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Freddie Weisberg and Char Cohodes
This week I talk to Freddie Weisberg and Char Cohodes, the founders of Old School Jewish Matchmaking, which TC Jewfolk is very exciting to be playing a part in. We talk about what led them to startin…
00:40:23 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Susan Geller
This week I talk to Susan Geller, the new executive director of Adath Jeshurun Congregation. We talk about the winding path that brought her to Adath, how the different types of non-profit work help …
00:31:38 |
Sun 16 Feb 2025
Henry Karpovas Lisak
This week I talk to Henry Karpovas Lisak, a University of Minnesota sophomore and Minnesota Hillel’s vice president for campus relations. We talk about how his volunteer role has nothing to do with h…
00:29:13 |
Sun 09 Feb 2025
Sara Lynn Newberger
This week I talk to Sara Lynn Newberger, the founder of Hineni, the adult Jewish education program at Talmud Torah of St. Paul. We talk about how she reluctantly got into teaching, starting a cross-r…
00:33:28 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
Howard Sinker
This week I talk to Howard Sinker, a long-time Star Tribune editor and faculty at Macalester College. We talk about how journalism has evolved in his more than four decades in journalism, how teachin…
00:52:25 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
Alyssa Engelson
This week I talk to Alyssa Engleson, the program director for youth, teen and camping at the Minnesota JCC. We talk about the increased interest in BBYO, what motivates teens, and the always exciting…
00:37:51 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
Andi Murez
This week I talk to Andi Murez, a psychiatry resident at Mayo Clinic and the flag-bearer for Team Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics. We talk about participating in her third Olympics, what it was li…
00:31:18 |
Sun 05 Jan 2025
Stephanie Chauss
This week I talk to Stephanie Chauss, the new-ish CEO of the Minnesota JCC on this week’s Who The Folk?! Podcast. We talk about various transitions she has made since getting involved in the JCCs, he…
00:31:25 |
Sun 01 Dec 2024
Adam Kersch
This week I talk to Adam Kersch, the new congregational administrator at Mayim Rabim Congregation as well as a Rabbinic student at ALEPH, the ordination program of Renewal Judaism. We talk about the …
00:27:21 |
Sun 24 Nov 2024
Emily Boskoff
This week I talk Emily Boskoff, the new executive director of Minnesota Hillel. We talk about her move back to the Midwest, getting used to working with college students again, and this week’s Hillel…
00:37:20 |
Sun 10 Nov 2024
Michael Greenberg
This week I talk Michael Greenberg, film director, writer and producer about his new short film “The Combination”. We talk about taking a deep-dive into some of the less-savory parts of Minneapolis J…
00:34:13 |
Sun 03 Nov 2024
Barbara Brooks
This week I talk to Barbara Brooks, the founder and producing artistic director of Six Points Theater. We talk about milestone of reaching it’s 30th anniversary season, why she started the theater in…
00:32:12 |
Sun 27 Oct 2024
Rabbi Julie Schwarzwald
This week I talk to Rabbi Julie Schwarzwald, the Fiterman B-Mitzvah Program & Ritual Director at Beth El Synagogue. We talk about her mid-career decision to go to rabbinic school, what she’s looking …
00:42:47 |
Sun 20 Oct 2024
Rabbi Jill Avrin
This week I talk to Rabbi Jill Avrin, the founder of YourJewish. We talk about her transition from pulpit rabbi to non-profit founding director, Packers Football, and YourJewish being a part of TC Je…
00:33:25 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
An Evening with Peter Himmelman (Live at ModernWell)
A special edition of the Who The Folk?! Podcast! St. Louis Park native Peter Himmelman was back in Minnesota for one night only to talk with TC Jewfolk Editor Lonny Goldsmith about his new book Suspe…
01:00:12 |
Sun 29 Sep 2024
Rabbi Eva Cohen
This week I talk to Rabbi Eva Cohen, newly ordained and now the spiritual leader of Or Emet: The Minnesota Congregation for Humanistic Judaism. We talk about what humanistic Judaism is, what led her …
00:31:13 |
Sun 22 Sep 2024
Lee Zukor
This week I talk to musican and technologist Lee Zukor. We talk about his wonderful band The Long Honeymoon, who are playing TC Jewfolk’s SukkotGiving on Nov. 3, his evolution as a songwriter, and ho…
00:28:55 |
Sun 15 Sep 2024
Elliot Ginsburg
This week I talk to attorney Elliot Ginsburg. We talk about his legal specialties of beverage and cannabis law, how he found this niche to practice, and what drew him to the law in the first place, o…
00:35:36 |
Sun 08 Sep 2024
Ron Krebs
We're back from a little late-summer hiatus to talk to Ron Krebs, a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. We talk about what i…
00:30:05 |
Sun 01 Sep 2024
Rabbi Sammy and Cantor Heather Seid
This week I talk to Rabbi Sammy and Cantor Heather Seid, the new associate rabbi and Jewish educator, respectively, at Adath Jeshurun. We talk about each of their winding roads to joining the clergy,…
00:45:48 |
Sun 11 Aug 2024
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