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Send us Fan Mail Raised by Survivors | Guest: Oleg Frish Title: Raised by Survivors | Ep. 662: Oleg Frish: From Soviet Ukraine to the American Stage | HMTC Before Oleg Frish performed on celebrated New York stages, American music gave a young boy behind the Iron Curtain a window into another world. His childhood fascination with records eventually became a remarkable career spanning singing, broad...

Send us Fan Mail hmTv Episode 661: Title & Description Kibitz with Keren | Host: Doron Keren Title: Kibitz with Keren | Ep. 661: Jewish Strength, Survival and “Never Again” | HMTC For 14 months, Doron Keren’s grandfather, Ignacy Chiger, kept his family alive beneath the streets of Lvov. He broke through three feet of concrete, led his wife and two children into the sewers, and placed their sur...

Send us Fan Mail Education in Motion | Ep. 660: Elizabeth Moore-Frederiksen: Leaving White Supremacy | HMTC Elizabeth “Liz” Moore-Frederiksen looked around a room filled with extremists and recognized a devastating truth: the only thing holding them together was whom they hated. That moment of clarity helped her begin the frightening journey out of white supremacy. In Episode 660 of Education in M...

Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 659: SocialLite: Reclaiming Attention from Social Media | HMTC A father’s one-month no-scrolling challenge inspired two young entrepreneurs to confront one of their generation’s greatest problems: addictive social media design. In less than seven months, SocialLite’s creators say their solution reached approximately 600,000 downloads and 50,000 daily users. I...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 655: Keith Godwin: Recovery Through Laughter (Part 3) | HMTC Keith Godwin was not expected to survive after his car overturned and caught fire in 2000. He lost several fingers, battled depression, and continued struggling with alcohol and drugs. Four years later, he entered recovery and began rebuilding his life one decision at a time. In Part 3 o...

Send us Fan Mail Influential Origins | Ep. 656: Chuck Lavine: Civil Rights and Rising Antisemitism (Part 1) | HMTC Growing up as one of the few Jewish children in small Midwestern communities taught Charles D. “Chuck” Lavine how to understand people, recognize danger, and navigate unfamiliar environments. Those early lessons would later become invaluable in the courtroom and the political arena. I...

Send us Fan Mail Influential Origins | Ep. 657: Chuck Lavine: Demagoguery, Antisemitism and Israel (Part 2) | HMTC Chuck Lavine’s grandmother survived a pogrom by hiding beneath a wagon filled with hay as friends were murdered. His other grandmother lost a younger brother who was killed in an antisemitic attack. Not one member of his European family survived the Nazi regime. In Part 2 of Influenti...

Send us Fan Mail When Chuck Lavine used the word “demagoguery” during his first campaign for the New York State Assembly, someone told him he had never heard the term before. Chuck’s reaction was immediate: that is dangerous. Democracy is most vulnerable when citizens cannot recognize lies, fearmongering, and political manipulation. In Part 3 of Influential Origins, host Alan Mindel concludes his...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 650: Mark Drexler: Inside a Sherman Tank (Part 1) | HMTC Three Sherman tanks were destroyed beneath Leon Drexler during 11 months of combat. Each time, the young Jewish soldier from Borough Park escaped and returned to battle as Allied forces advanced across Europe during World War II. In Part 1 of The Fog of War and Humanity , host Richard Acrite...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 651: Mark Drexler: Preparing for D-Day (Part 2) | HMTC Before Leon Drexler ever fired the cannon of a Sherman tank in combat, he crossed an Atlantic patrolled by German submarines and arrived in England as Allied forces prepared for the largest amphibious invasion in history. In Part 2 of The Fog of War and Humanity , host Richard Acritelli contin...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 652: Mark Drexler: D-Day at Omaha Beach (Part 3) | HMTC Leon Drexler had trained for months to become a Sherman tank gunner. Yet as his unit approached Omaha Beach, his knees shook with fear. Surrounded by explosions and chaos, he climbed into his tank and began firing shell after shell, sometimes without knowing precisely where or what he was fir...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 653: Keith Godwin: From Troubled Teen to U.S. Marine (Part 1) | HMTC An arrest nearly ended Keith Godwin’s military future before it began. Drawn to drugs, alcohol, fights, and chaos as a teenager, Keith was the person other parents warned their children to avoid. He was not heartless, but he was always searching for trouble. In Part 1 of The Fog...

Send us Fan Mail The Fog of War and Humanity | Ep. 654: Keith Godwin: A Marine Battles Addiction (Part 2) | HMTC Marine Corps leaders did not always know whether Keith Godwin would return from liberty. Yet in the field, he was a skilled and dependable Marine. When senior communications personnel became unavailable during an exercise in Korea, Keith organized the unit’s entire communications operat...

Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 649: Theresa Cannistraci Farrell: Comedy Connects and Heals | HMTC With only two pints of blood remaining in her body, Theresa Cannistraci Farrell was rushed into critical care. Even after receiving 22 pounds of fluid, platelets, and plasma, she found a punchline. Humor was not minimizing the danger. It was helping her survive it. On Ordinary Heroes , host Be...

Send us Fan Mail The UN, Society, and Antisemitism | Ep. 648: Ugoji Eze: Confronting Antisemitism at the UN | HMTC As a child caught in the Nigerian-Biafran Civil War, Dr. Ugoji A. Eze became a refugee and later endured ridicule in a London school. Sitting in that classroom, she made a decision that would shape her life: she would become a lawyer and make a difference in the world. On The UN, Soci...

Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 647: Talin Esh: Finding Wisdom Within the Wounds | HMTC At seven years old, Talin Esh Sarraf felt unseen. English was her second language, she struggled in school, and life at home was difficult. Then a teacher introduced her to poetry. For the first time, Talin felt that she existed, belonged, and had found a language for everything she carried inside. On...

Send us Fan Mail The Israeli Bond | Ep. 646: Bentzi Kohn & Franc Contreras: Preserving Family Memories | HMTC A Holocaust survivor’s memories had been carefully written on pieces of paper, yet her own family had never seen them. That realization helped inspire Bentzi Kohn and Franc Contreras to create FamLife, a private digital platform where families can preserve, enrich, and share the storie...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 645 of It’s All About the Children on hmTv, hosts Carin and Sami continue their conversation with 16-year-old student activist Ryan Golditch. Ryan reflects on visiting Auschwitz during the March of the Living and explains why seeing the victims’ shoes, hair and personal belongings created an understanding of the Holocaust that no textbook or film could provide. The disc...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 644 of It’s All About the Children on hmTv, hosts Carin and Sami welcome 16-year-old student activist Ryan Golditch for Part 1 of an engaging conversation about Jewish identity, political involvement, courage and the responsibility to speak out. Ryan reflects on participating in the March of the Living and explains how visiting Auschwitz and other Holocaust sites gave h...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 643 of Ordinary Heroes on hmTv, host Bernie Furshpan welcomes acclaimed actor, author, and advocate Tovah Feldshuh for a powerful conversation about Jewish identity, storytelling, courage, and resilience. Tovah reflects on her childhood, her extraordinary career spanning more than five decades, and her acclaimed portrayals of historic figures including Golda Meir and Ru...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 641 of Disrupting Hate on hmTv, host Kenneth Schachter speaks with Professor Adam Fuller, author of The Armed Jew: The Case for Jewish Gun Ownership and director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University. Professor Fuller discusses why he became what he calls an “October 8 gun owner” following the Hamas attacks of October 7 and the co...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 642 of The Dana Download on hmTv, host Dana Arschin Kraslow speaks with educator and Holocaust legacy advocate Lea Sigiel-Wolinetz, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. Lea shares the remarkable survival stories of her parents, her experience growing up as an only child in a survivor family, and how she came to embrace her responsibility as a member of the second ge...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 639 of Education in Motion on hmTv, host Zachary Graulich, Director of Education at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, welcomes Nikhil Shah, a recent Syosset High School graduate and recipient of the Claire Friedlander Upstander Award Scholarship. Nikhil discusses his work as a student docent for Syosset High School’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day program a...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 640 of Education in Motion on hmTv, host Donna Rosenblum welcomes Matt Loew, Assistant Principal for Humanities at Syosset High School, for an in-depth conversation about the power and continued importance of Holocaust education. Matt shares his journey from classroom teacher to educational leader and explains how Syosset integrates Holocaust and tolerance education acr...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 638 of The Israeli Bond on hmTv, host Gal Swisa Cohen welcomes Ira Kohler, a Long Island native who moved to Israel and enlisted in the IDF as a lone soldier. Ira shares his journey from growing up in a close Jewish community to serving in the 890th Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade. He reflects on the challenges of military training in Hebrew, the deep bonds formed...