Grace For Impact

As the international spokeswoman of Ezer Mizion, Leah Witt is responsible for developing collaborations with Jewish communities around the world. For more, you can follow the show on Instagram @Graceforimpactpodcast Produced by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Valdes is the founder of Hot Jewish Media, best known for the popular social media brand @hotjewishenergy, which he runs across Instagram, TikTok, and X (formerly Twitter). His content explores Jewish identity, culture, humor, and contemporary Jewish issues, often blending comedy with serious discussions about antisemitism and Jewish pride. He also hosts the Hot Jewish Podcast, where he br...

Corey Walker has spent the better part of his adult life engaging a vast range of perspectives re the Israel Palestine conflict. Through this engagement, which includes attending pro Palestinian events, Corey has developed an epic database of knowledge, history & understanding on the subject. He writes with unapologetic conviction. Unswayed by accusations that he is a zionist propagandist, Cor...

Boris Shtonda was injured in a Hamas booby trapped building on November 10th 2023. Five days later, he woke up from an induced coma to learn that his leg had been amputated above the knee. Since his injury and rehabilitation, he has travelled to numerous countries where he’s snorkelled, trekked, snowboarded and picked up a running prosthetic. But his greatest physical challenge yet, will be his cl...

Matthew Goldstein MD, PHD is an entrepreneur, and the CEO of Jscreen, a genetic screening initiative originated out of Emory University. His journey to this role was deeply personal. After the tragic loss of his daughter Havi to Tay-Sachs disease, he dedicated himself to preventing similar experiences for other families. This experience became a driving force behind his work at Jscreen, which focu...

On October 1st, as Iran released 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, Carine Bassili released her song “October Rain” to the world. Her courageous decision to translate Israeli Eurovision contestant Eden Golan’s song "Hurricane" into Arabic was the obvious next step in her solidarity with Israel. Carine, a devout Christian Lebanese women was banned from Lebanon in 2020, for musically collaborati...

Ashira Solomon is a News personality, host of “The Black and Jewish Podcast," co-host of “The Quad” and a political commentator. She is a wealth of information, facts, history, and thinks and speaks in nuance through a lens of context and reason. Her voice is recognized internationally. Her breadth of knowledge on the middle east is tremendous. She advocates for dialoguing with facts and truth and...

Today, my discussion is with Yael Noy CEO of Road to Recovery, an organization where Israeli volunteers provide round trip transportation for Palestinian patients from Gaza and the West Bank border crossings to Israeli hospitals for life saving medical treatments. For more, you can follow the show on Instagram @Graceforimpactpodcast Produced by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Iris Shtein served as the Director of strategic partnerships at ARC innovation center at Sheba Hospital for 5 years, where she most recently led an AI initiative called LIV. This platform offers an interactive conversational interface with its users. Utilizing the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, LIV assists mental health professionals in diagnosing conditions such as PTSD, depression and anxiety. ...

Avner Halperin, CEO of Sheba Medical center’s Impact division, discusses the double bottom line of innovating to change healthcare, while generating economic growth. In this synergistic environment, Sheba’s clinicians and engineers work side by side, efficiently iterating for the benefit and improvement of global health care. For more, you can follow the show on Instagram @Graceforimpactpodcast Pr...

Gaby Hilkowitz Rurka discusses her role as a volunteer Psychological first Aid responder for United Hatzalah’s psycho trauma unit.  For more, you can follow the show on Instagram @Graceforimpactpodcast Produced by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yamen Lawrence is a proud Arab Israeli gay activist. He was raised in Nazareth where he had to hide his identity while enduring years of emotional and physical bullying from fellow Arab classmates. When coming out to his Muslim family, many disowned him. Yamen now lives in Tel Aviv, openly gay and a member of a vibrant, thriving and supportive community where living his truth is both protected and...

How important is it to say you’re Jewish if you are? Eitan Chitayat, CEO of Natie Branding Agency feels it’s critical. We discuss the urgent need to use one’s voice to stand proudly as a Jew and deploy the Jewish narrative so that all the misinformation and untruths can be exposed, allowing for the celebration of the Jewish People. For more, you can follow the show on Instagram @Graceforimpactpodc...

Shir Weiss is a Fashion design teacher at Max Payne High School in Tel Aviv. In response to the jarring Silence by the United Nations Women, regarding the rapes and sexual abuses of women, at the hands of Hamas, during the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel, she inspired her student to create extraordinary drawings of women and hung them for public view Tel Aviv. Additionally, Shir and her col...

Daniel Kopylov, an IDF soldier and Danielle Yablonka, an America model, influencer, & activist, share their respective stories about how, from a terrible circumstance, they met and the power of their love that has since emerged. For more, you can follow the show on Instagram @Graceforimpactpodcast Produced by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ifat Bechor is the CEO of Unistream, an Entrepreneurship program with the aim of ensuring that every child in Israel, including those from the country’s geographic and socioeconomic periphery - is given equal opportunities in life. For more, you can follow the show on Instagram @Graceforimpactpodcast Produced by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Micah Hendler is a musical change maker. He is the Founder and artistic director of the Israeli-Palestinian Jerusalem Youth Chorus, a music and dialogue project, raising the voices of young leaders. For more, you can follow the show on Instagram @Graceforimpactpodcast Produced by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we sit down for an interview with Ephy Shapiro, International Partnerships Manager at HaGal Sheli, an educational youth program that utilizes surfing as an empowerment tool for at-risk youth.  For more, you can follow the show on Instagram @Graceforimpactpodcast Produced by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Conversation with Nova music festival October 7th survivor, Ron Segev, regarding his involvement with the Nova exhibit in NYC and the impact he hopes to have on its visitors. A follow up conversation with Jackson Mushnick, who was visiting the exhibit June 10th, 3 days after the interview with Ron Segev and was locked inside the exhibit for his safety, when mobs chanted violent hatred outside the...

I sat down with Professor Eyal Zimlichman, a powerhouse at Sheba’s Medical Center where we discussed a variety of topics, all examples of Sheba’s extraordinary efforts and success in medical treatments, humanitarian missions and disruptive technologies.  Sheba’s exceptionally high rates of patient survival from trauma to their state of the art rehabilitation center, with its continuity of car...

Sagi Dovev dedicates most of his waking hours to training and rehabilitating young IDF soldiers whose injuries range from post op rehab to single & multiple limb amputees to head traumas. Sagi’s dedication to many of these soldiers began prior to Oct 7th, training them in their combat units in mental and physical resilience. The connection he builds with his guys is steeped in a mutual respect...

Former Minister of Science and Technology, Tech entrepreneur, and Father to 4, Izhar Shay shares how he's commemorating the 1500 lives lost due to the October 7th invasion by Hamas terrorists, of which his beloved youngest son, Yaron Oree Shay was one of those killed. It was Yaron’s bravery & courage as he fought 100s of terrorists that saved 100s of innocent civilians at Kibbutz Kerem Shalom...

Eli Beer founded United Hatzalah in 1989, and through his organization, consisting of 7000 Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze volunteers, they have responded to over 6 million emergencies, both in Israel and worldwide. For more, you can follow the show on Instagram @Graceforimpactpodcast Produced by Peoples Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bet Elazraki, is a children’s home in Israel. Over the past 35 years, Director Yehuda Kohn and his wife Riki have raised over 500 children, in addition to their 5 biological children. Yehuda believes that being a parent isn’t just about bringing a child into the world, parenting is about raising children in a home where they are loved, supported and nurtured, so that one day, they too can become p...

Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach is a mother to 4 sons, an Iron Woman Triathlete and the first female CEO to run an Israeli hospital. Under her remarkable leadership at Shamir Medical Center, Dr. Levtzion-Korach discusses with me a few of the many therapies that are trailblazing in patient care and impact, such as diabetes, PTSD, strokes, allergies, arrhythmias and sperm retrieval from fallen soldiers. O...