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Send us Fan Mail Influential Origins | Ep. 712: Kim Keiserman, Leadership and Public Service, Part 3 | HMTC What does responsible leadership look like when affordability, public safety, antisemitism, and community trust all demand attention? In Part 3 of Influential Origins, host Alan Mindel speaks with New York State Assembly candidate Kim Keiserman about challenges facing Long Island’s North Sho...

Send us Fan Mail Influential Origins | Ep. 711: Kim Keiserman, Teaching History After 9/11, Part 2 | HMTC Kim Keiserman had lived in Port Washington for only two months when September 11 changed her new community forever. In Part 2 of Influential Origins, host Alan Mindel continues his conversation with Kim about moving from the South to New York, embracing cultural and religious diversity, and fi...

Send us Fan Mail Influential Origins | Ep. 710: Kim Keiserman, Education and Civic Responsibility, Part 1 | HMTC Moving between ten addresses and eight schools before graduation taught Kim Keiserman how deeply community, education, and belonging shape a young person’s life. On Influential Origins, host Alan Mindel welcomes educator and community leader Kim Keiserman for Part 1 of a conversation ab...

Send us Fan Mail The UN, Society, and Antisemitism | Ep. 709: Ofir Dayan, Reclaiming the Narrative | HMTC Why did Israel shift in the Western imagination from vulnerable underdog to alleged oppressor? On The UN, Society, and Antisemitism, host Dr. Susanne Seperson speaks with Israeli researcher and author Ofir Dayan about her new book, Intifada Globalized: Why Young Westerners Are Turning Away fro...

Send us Fan Mail It's All About the Children | Ep. 708: Sheikh Musa Drammeh, Building Bridges, Part 2 | HMTC In Part 2, Sheikh Musa Drammeh challenges extremist interpretations of Islam and explains why he believes the Quran affirms religious freedom, shared Abrahamic traditions, and the Jewish connection to the Holy Land. Carin Bail and Sami Steigmann continue their conversation with the edu...

Send us Fan Mail How can we teach children to respect one another, take responsibility, and challenge hatred? It begins with the example we set and the conversations we are willing to have. In Part 1 of this conversation, hosts Carin Bail and Holocaust survivor Sami Steigman welcome educator, imam, and community organizer Sheikh Musa Drammeh. Born in The Gambia and raised in Senegal, Sheikh Musa s...

Send us Fan Mail The UN, Society and Antisemitism | Ep. 706: Itay Ken-Tor, Preserving October 7 Testimony | HMTC DESCRIPTION Two days after the October 7, 2023 attacks, filmmaker Itay Ken-Tor began helping survivors preserve their firsthand accounts. The result is Edut 710, an archive containing more than 2,100 filmed testimonies created with trauma-informed listening, ethical safeguards, and futu...

Send us Fan Mail Kibitz with Keren | Ep. 705: Sadie Herz, A Witness to a Witness | HMTC Sadie Herz entered UJA’s Witness Project expecting to learn from a Holocaust survivor. After hearing Christine Keren’s testimony, she realized that learning was not enough. She had become responsible for carrying the story forward. On Kibitz with Keren, host Doron Keren speaks with the high school senior who wa...

Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 704: Julie Budd, From Brooklyn to Sinatra and Beyond | HMTC At 15, Julie Budd walked into a Las Vegas rehearsal and discovered that the person blowing kisses from the wings was Frank Sinatra. He had personally chosen her to open his show and later asked her to keep the American Songbook alive. On Ordinary Heroes, host Bernie Furshpan welcomes his friend for a...

Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 703: Daniella Rabbani, Carrying Yiddish Forward | HMTC Yiddish first surrounded Daniella Rabbani as the adults’ language, spoken by her Holocaust survivor grandparents but not passed directly to her. Years later, music helped her reclaim it. On The Dana Download, host Dana Arschin Kraslow speaks with the actor and singer about her Ashkenazi and Sephardic ro...

Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 702: Lynne Goldberg - Catching Your Breath | HMTC After two cancer diagnoses, the end of a 20-year marriage, her daughter leaving for college, and a major career change, Lynne Goldberg faced a question: What comes next? On The Dana Download, host Dana Arschin Kraslow speaks with the author of Catching Your Breath, meditation teacher, speaker, and co-founder...

Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 701: Dr. Greg Weiner - First Jewish President of a Catholic University | HMTC Growing up in the only Jewish family in a small Texas town taught Dr. Greg Weiner that a strong identity can make genuine friendship across differences possible. Today, as the first Jewish president of a Catholic university, he brings that lesson to higher education. In Episode 700...

Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 700: Dena Schusterman - The Stories We Carry | HMTC A little girl once asked her father to carry her on a long walk to synagogue. He answered, “I’ll carry you with my stories.” For Dena Schusterman, that childhood memory reveals how family stories give us strength, shape identity, and sometimes need to be reexamined. On Ordinary Heroes, host Bernie Furshpan s...

Send us Fan Mail Putting the Brakes on Bullying | Ep. 699: David Ben-Arie - Naming the Harm, Part 2 | HMTC David Ben-Arie spent years minimizing the bullying and antisemitism he experienced as a child. If others had endured worse, he reasoned, perhaps what happened to him did not count. Only later did he recognize that dismissing the harm delayed his ability to heal. In Part 2 of Putting the Brake...

Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 697: Marsha Silverman - A 9/11 Survivor’s Story | HMTC Marsha Silverman stepped off the subway beneath the World Trade Center just as the first plane struck. Minutes later, standing outside, she heard the second plane overhead and understood that the attack was intentional. Her instinct was simple: get away. On The Dana Download, host Dana Arschin Kraslow s...

Send us Fan Mail Unmasked. Unfiltered. Unapologetic. | Ep. 698: Remembering Mark and September 11 | HMTC Mark had been promoted to broker six days before September 11, 2001. A meeting on the 92nd floor of the North Tower placed him where he normally would not have been, while his wife, Nicole LaMorte, began the morning believing he was safely at work blocks away. On Unmasked. Unfiltered. Unapologe...

Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 696: Bonnie Aliazzo - One Believer Can Change the World | HMTC A childhood lesson in the Golden Rule became a lifelong commitment to fairness, peace, and protecting children. Bonnie Aliazzo carried that lesson from the tennis court and courtroom into a creative movement built around one belief: one person can change the world. On Ordinary Heroes, host Bernie...

Send us Fan Mail Raised by Survivors | Ep. 695: Noah Ehrlich - Witnessing Jewish Life in Poland | HMTC A week in Poland left Bernie Furshpan and Noah Ehrlich changed. Traveling with leaders from Jewish organizations, they encountered centuries of Jewish life, sites of unimaginable destruction, and communities working to rebuild connection and memory. On Raised by Survivors, Noah, Director of Devel...

Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 694: John Tantillo - Can Unity Be Marketed? | HMTC Marketing can sell a product, build a movement, or persuade people to fear their neighbors. Can those same tools be used to promote unity, empathy, and shared purpose? On Ordinary Heroes, Bernie Furshpan speaks with Dr. John Tantillo, branding expert, author, educator, and longtime commentator, about the emot...

Send us Fan Mail Raised by Survivors | Ep. 693: Zena Frey & Susan McClelland - The Story of Honor | HMTC At twelve years old, Leizer “Leon” Buchwald was forced to become a man. For three years, he survived the Holocaust by hiding in caves, forests, and the attic of a Ukrainian Catholic family that refused to surrender its humanity. On Raised by Survivors, Bernie Furshpan speaks with Leon’s dau...

Send us Fan Mail Education in Motion | Ep. 692: Phyllis Abrams - Teaching History One Student at a Time | HMTC After decades in education, film writing, healthcare communications, and business, Phyllis Abrams found a new calling close to home: guiding students through HMTC. On Education in Motion, Donna Rosenblum speaks with Phyllis about becoming a Holocaust docent. She began by shadowing school...

Send us Fan Mail Raised by Survivors | Ep. 691: Carolyn Enger - Recognizing Hate’s Warning Signs | HMTC Children of survivors often inherit an extra antenna for danger. For concert pianist Carolyn Enger and Bernie Furshpan, today’s surge of digital hatred makes that vigilance feel urgently relevant. On Raised by Survivors, they examine how words, lies, stereotypes, silence, and algorithms can norm...

Send us Fan Mail Voices Illuminated | Ep. 690: Marc Karimzadeh - Fashion, Memory and Jewish Pride | HMTC Marc Karimzadeh once read fashion magazines under his duvet with a flashlight. That private teenage passion in Hamburg became a career chronicling and shaping American fashion. On Voices Illuminated, host Judy Liman speaks with the CFDA’s Senior Director of Content and Communications about his...

Send us Fan Mail Influential Origins | Ep. 689: Michael Trager - Cara’s Legacy and a Call for Safety |  After 47 years of marriage, Michael Trager lost his wife, Cara Sellinger Trager, in a fatal traffic collision while they were walking home together in Queens. On Influential Origins, host Alan Mindel speaks with Michael about Cara’s life as a journalist, mother, grandmother, proud Jew, and devot...

Send us Fan Mail Raised by Survivors | Ep. 688: Matilde Broder - Greek Jewish Survival and Legacy | HMTC After Auschwitz, two Greek Jewish survivors made their way to Paris, met in a holding camp, and began the family the Nazis had tried to erase. On Raised by Survivors, Bernie Furshpan speaks with Matilde Broder about her parents, Sephardic Jews whose families had lived in Greece for generations....