Best Jeremy Rosenblatt Podcasts (2025)

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Rachel Cockerell on The Zionist Dream That Sailed to Galveston 45:47

13d ago45:47

45:47

On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamed, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Rachel Cockerell’s great-grandfather. The journey marks the beginning of the Galveston Movement, a forgotten moment in history when ten thousand Jews fl…

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BONUS: Introducing The Book of Life Podcast 34:31

17d ago34:31

34:31

In this bonus episode of The Book of Life Podcast: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly), host Heidi Rabinowitz talks to host of The Five Books, Tali Rosenblatt Cohen. Heidi and Tali trade recommendations for books new and old. If you’re keeping a list of great kids books with Jewish themes, this is a great episode for you! RECOMMENDED TITLES Book #1: Favorite Pi…

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Esther Levy Chehebar on Marriage, Sisterhood, and the Weight of Tradition 50:52

27d ago50:52

50:52

The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the obedient middle sister, Fortune, has secretly started to question her engagement and impending wedding. Nina, the rebellious eldest sister, is single at 26 (and growing cobwebs by her community's standards) when she runs into an old friend who offers her a chance to choose a different …

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Elizabeth Graver On Lost Worlds and New Doorways 55:19

1M ago55:19

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A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, Kantika―“song” in Ladino―follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what co…

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Jessica Berger Gross on on Cultural Judaism and Creative Resistance 43:02

2M ago43:02

43:02

When Hazel Blum’s father gets a tenured job at a prestigious college, she and her family relocate from Brooklyn to a middle-of-nowhere college town in Maine. With her mother, Claire, a clothing designer, and her father, Gus, an American Studies professor, Hazel and her eleven-year-old brother, Wolf, spend the summer at the town pool, where they acc…

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Mary Morris on Hidden Histories and Jewish Identities 47:06

2M ago47:06

47:06

Thirty years ago, Laura’s mother, Viola, went missing. She left behind her purse, her keys and her mysterious paintings of a red house. Viola was never found, and her family never recovered. Laura, an artist herself, held on to the paintings. On the back of each work, her mother scrawled in Italian, “I will not be here forever.” The family never un…

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Announcement: Now an Always-On, Every Other Week Show, and a Newsletter! 1:29

3M ago1:29

1:29

Hi everyone! If you’re new here, welcome! At The Five Books, we’re all about connecting through stories. What role do books play in shaping who we are? Which beloved books do you share with your favorite author? What’s the next great read that might shift your worldview? Stick around and we’ll have your summer reading pile stocked in no time. In ca…

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Rabbi Sharon Brous on Finding Her Place in the Jewish Community and Working to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World 1:01:31

3M ago1:01:31

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In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Sharon Brous—a leading American rabbi—makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one other in celebration, in sorrow, and in solidarity. T…

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Jeremy Dauber on Jewish Literature, Pop Culture, and What The Horror Genre Reveals About America 52:28

3M ago52:28

52:28

“Show me what scares you, and I’ll show you your soul.” In American Scary, noted cultural historian Jeremy Dauber draws a captivating through line that ties historical influences ranging from the Salem witch trials and enslaved-person narratives directly to the body of work we associate with horror today: from the taut, terrifying stories of Edgar …

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Jill Santopolo on Being a “Pizza Bagel”, and Fiction as a Way to Make History More Human 46:11

3M ago46:11

46:11

The long-awaited follow-up to the Reese’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestselling global phenomenon The Light We Lost: a thrilling love story about the roles fate and choice play in shaping a life. It’s been nearly ten years since Gabe’s been gone when Lucy finds a tiny piece of paper in a box of his old photos. An address in Rome. Why did Ga…

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Allison Epstein on Taking on One of Literature’s Most Notoriously Antisemitic Characters 45:18

3M ago45:18

45:18

Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London. Born in the Jewish enclave of Stepney shortly after his father was executed as a thief, Jacob’s whole world is his open-minded mother, Leah. But Jacob’s prospects are forever altered when a light-finge…

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Nicole Graev Lipson On the Attention, Intention, and Complexity of Mothers 49:29

4M ago49:29

49:29

What does it take to escape the plotlines mapped onto us? Searching for clues in the work of her literary foremothers, Lipson untangles what it means to be a girl, a woman, a lover, a partner, a daughter, and a mother in a world all too ready to reduce us to stock characters. Whether she’s testing the fragile borders of fidelity, embracing the tabo…

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Gayle Forman on Judy Blume, Taylor Swift, and the Innate Goodness of Young People 58:57

4M ago58:57

58:57

To say Alex has had it rough is an understatement. His father's gone, his mother is struggling with mental health issues, and he's now living with an aunt and uncle who are less than excited to have him. Almost everyone treats him as though he doesn't matter at all, like he's nothing. So when a kid at school actually tells him he's nothing, Alex sn…

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Jennifer Weiner on Pushing Back Against De-Jewified Last Names, “Women’s Fiction,” and Activism in the Face of Despair 52:02

4M ago52:02

52:02

Cassie and Zoe Grossberg were thrust into the spotlight as The Griffin Sisters, a pop duo that defined the aughts. Together, they skyrocketed to the top, gracing MTV, SNL, and the cover of Rolling Stone. Cassie, a musical genius who never felt at ease in her own skin, preferred to stay in the shadows. Zoe, full of confidence and craving fame, lived…

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Dara Horn on Being the Lorax at Her Seder Table 55:41

4M ago55:41

55:41

Dara Horn is the award-winning author of six books, including the novels The World to Come, All Other Nights, and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. Her latest book is the graphic novel One Little Goat. At the Passover seder, an out-of-control family cannot find their afikoman and as a result, they are trap…

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BONUS: Dara Horn on Tevye the Dairyman 7:07

4M ago7:07

7:07

Award-winning author Dara Horn is also a professor of Jewish literature. In discussing the Tevye story, she went into a deep dive, explaining each of the daughters’ marriages as a confrontation with a different political challenge to Russian Jews. I was riveted and wanted to share with you as well!By Tali Rosenblatt Cohen

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Georgia Hunter on Discovering her Family’s Jewish History and Kindness as Resistance 52:52

5M ago52:52

52:52

When Georgia Hunter was fifteen years old, she discovered that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. Years later, she embarked on a journey of intensive research, determined to unearth and record her family’s remarkable story. The result is the New York Times best seller, We Were the Lucky Ones, which has been published in over 20 language…

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Rob Kutner on Writing for The Daily Show, Conan, and How Comedy and Judaism Overlap 41:26

5M ago41:26

41:26

Rob Kutner’s new irreverent book on Jewish history, The Jews: 5000 Years and Counting covers every major moment in Jewish history from Adam and Eve to Tuesday’s rerun of Seinfeld. This book will make you laugh, it might inadvertently make you learn, and it might just be a balm for our times that you didn’t know you needed (Simon & Schuster). Rob Ku…

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Allegra Goodman on Making the Exotic Familiar, and Finding the Modern in Ancient Words 46:41

5M ago46:41

46:41

Isola is inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine, and is the timeless story of a woman fighting for survival. Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian—an enigmatic and volatile man—spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to…

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Introducing Chutzpod! 40:12

6M ago40:12

40:12

Today, we’re excited to introduce you to Chutzpod, a podcast that offers frank and wide-ranging conversations on how to build a good life. Each week on Chutzpod, Rabbi Shira Stutman and co-host Hanna Rosin tackle life’s toughest questions through a Jewish lens. If you’ve ever wondered whether to forgive a friend who won’t apologize, felt annoyed by…

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We'd love to hear your feedback! 1:14

6M ago1:14

1:14

We just finished our very first season of The Five Books! While we're preparing Season 2, we'd love to hear what you thought of our show. You can email us at [email protected]. We will be back on March 18 with some incredible authors for Season Two like Allegra Goodman, Georgia Hunter, Gayle Forman and more. Thank you for listening, sharing wit…

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Tova Mirvis on Community, Belonging, and Forgiveness 48:06

6M ago48:06

48:06

We Would Never is a riveting literary page-turner that maps the extremes to which a family will go in order to protect their own. No one appears more surprised than Hailey Gelman when she comes under suspicion for the murder of her soon-to-be ex-husband Jonah. Hailey—nicknamed Sunshine by her mother for her bright outlook and ever-present smile—has…

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Bonny Reichert on Food, Fear, and Finding Beauty 41:59

7M ago41:59

41:59

Bonny Reichert avoided everything to do with the Holocaust. The journalist had grown up hearing stories about her father’s near-starvation and ultimate survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau, but she never imagined she would be able to face this epic legacy head-on. Then a chance encounter with a perfect bowl of borscht in Warsaw set Bonny on a journey to …

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Jessica Elisheva Emerson on Belief, Identity, and Women’s Desire 41:57

7M ago41:57

41:57

Olive Days is a novel about Rina Kirsch, a young mother and Modern Orthodox Jew in Los Angeles. But a contradiction burns at her center: Rina is an atheist. She is also stymied in her life and marriage. Hoping to reinvigorate their relationship, Rina’s husband convinces her to partake in a night of wife swapping with other Orthodox couples. Rather …

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Elyssa Friedland on Being a First Generation American and Why Representation in Books Matters 35:48

7M ago35:48

35:48

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy lives will transform into sleek, storybook perfection–but they couldn’t be more wrong. The Jacobson children reunite when their newly widowed father puts their Jersey Shore beach house on the market. Packing up childhood memories isn’t easy, especially w…

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Gila Pfeffer on Finding Meaning and Humor in the Darkest Times 43:24

7M ago43:24

43:24

By the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer. A simple blood test confirmed she carried the BRCA1 gene—which put her at high risk of developing cancer herself. Determined to break the cycle of early death in her family, Gila decides to und…

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Samantha Greene Woodruff on Blacklists and being a 'Christmas Tree Jew' 41:21

7M ago41:21

41:21

The Trade Off is the story of a brilliant and ambitious young woman striving to find her place amid the promise and tumult of 1920s Wall Street. Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers, and for finding patterns within the stock market. But in the 1920s, in a Lower East Side tenement, opportunities for (Jewish) women on Wall Street don't just…

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Yehuda Kurtzer on Grappling with History and Memory 53:05

8M ago53:05

53:05

The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook, a rich collection of major Jewish ideas from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religios…

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Zibby Owens on the Healing Power of the Written Word 41:57

8M ago41:57

41:57

On Being Jewish Now is an intimate and hopeful collection of 75 meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today’s authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how life has changed since the attacks on October 7th, 2023, and the unique culture that brings this group together. Contributors include Mark Feuerstein,…

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Francine Klagsbrun on Embracing and Reshaping Tradition 59:46

8M ago59:46

59:46

Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. She later moved to Mandate Palestine to help shape education, health, and social services there. The pinnacle of her career came in her seventies, when she took on th…

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Jean Meltzer on ‘Jewitches’ and Jewish Joy 51:18

8M ago51:18

51:18

In Magical Meet Cute, Faye Kaplan is definitely happy alone. That is, until she finds her town papered with anti-Semitic flyers. Desperate for comfort, Faye drunkenly turns to her pottery. A golem protector is just what her town needs…and adding details to make him her ideal man can’t hurt, right? When a mysterious stranger turns up the next day, G…

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Yael van der Wouden on Rage, Desire, and Magic 53:00

9M ago53:00

53:00

It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva, leaving her at Isabel’s doorstep as a guest, to stay for the season. Mysterious, so…

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Benjamin Resnick on the Enduring Precariousness of Jewish Life 49:16

9M ago49:16

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Benjamin Resnick’s debut novel, Next Stop, is a work of speculative fiction that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through the lens of one family. After a black hole consumes the State of Israel, similar strange events occur in cities around the world, ushering in a time of chaos as well as miracles. (Simon and Schuster) Benjamin …

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Coming Soon: The Five Books 2:40

9M ago2:40

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Join us December 3rd! Each episode will feature a candid conversation with a Jewish author about five books that are near and dear to them. We’ll hear about the books that helped form their identities, the books that changed their worldview, and we’ll get the inside scoop on a new book they’ve just published.…

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4.25.22 - Comedian Alex Woody 32:36

3+ y ago32:36

32:36

Alex Woody is currently trying to make it as a comedian, but in his younger days he worked for his grandfather and then his father. We had fun discussing working with family and he had fun making me laugh throughout the interview. Check out Alex's Comedy Podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ffe6OUxmCsXANk4x2ddYF?si=78337947b49545b8 Follow h…

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4.18.22 - Katy Cook; Crown Trophy Pleasanton 21:17

3+ y ago21:17

21:17

First new interview of 2022. Katy Cook has worked for families for most of her adult life in several different capacities. She currently works for me at Crown Trophy but we discussed both her past and current jobs working with families other than her own.

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4.11.22 - Siana Riedel, California Healthy Harvest 17:41

3+ y ago17:41

17:41

Replay of my interview with Siana Riedel from 2020

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4.4.22 - April Duarte, Compass 21:08

3+ y ago21:08

21:08

Replay of my interview with April Duarte

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3.28.22 - Josh Adler, Legacy Carpet & Upholstry 28:04

3+ y ago28:04

28:04

Replay of the interview with Josh Adler

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3.21.22 - Jerry Rosenblatt, Crown Trophy of Pleasanton 21:25

3+ y ago21:25

21:25

Replay of the interview I did with my Dad

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3.14.22 - Sam Falcon; Bay Home and Window 17:21

3+ y ago17:21

17:21

Replay of my interview with Sam Falcon

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3.7.22 - Dennis Erokan, Founder of BAM magazine 32:24

3+ y ago32:24

32:24

Replay of my interview with Dennis Eroken, the founder of BAM Magazine and the Bammies

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2.28.22 - Shelby Swanson, Swanson Real Estate Team 16:01

3+ y ago16:01

16:01

Replay of my interview with Shelby Swanson

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2.14.22 - Crystal Diamond, Characterz Cafe and Coffee Roasters 48:51

3+ y ago48:51

48:51

Replay of the interview I did with Crystal Diamond

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2.7.22 - Carol Rosenblatt, Crown Trophy 8:06

3+ y ago8:06

8:06

Replay of the interview I did with my mom

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1.31.22 - Nick Valenziano; Porky's Pizza Palace 18:36

3+ y ago18:36

18:36

Replay of my interview with Nick Valenziano, Insurance agent & Owner of Porky's Pizza Palace

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1.24.22 - Billy Buckley; ENT Networks 16:58

3+ y ago16:58

16:58

Replay of interview with Billy Buckley

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1.10.22 - KJ Newbery; Bras & Mattos Monuments 14:03

3+ y ago14:03

14:03

Replay of the interview with KJ Newbery of Bras & Mattos

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1.3.22 - Intro Revisted 11:36

3+ y ago11:36

11:36

This is the intro episode mashed up with the interviews from both of my parents to get all 3 perspectives as to how Crown Trophy of Pleasanton was formed

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Episode 22 - April Duarte 21:19

4+ y ago21:19

21:19

April has been interested in real estate since high school and out of college decided to make it her career. Eventually her dad joined her and they still work together, and her mom stages for them. We discuss what it's like working with your parents.

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