Conversations with B’nai B’rith

In this episode, host and B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin sits down with guest Ken Ackerman, an attorney and writer based in Washington, D.C. Ken’s published books include Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York and Ken’s most recent one, Trotsky in New York, 1917, A Radical on the Eve of Revolution. Ken has authored a feature story titled “How an...

Recently the White House announced that it would be withdrawing funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, otherwise known as the UNRWA. In this podcast episode, our host and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin discusses the implications of this decision by the White House with our guest, Dr. Asaf Romirowsky. Dr. Romirowsky is the Executive Director of Scholars for Peac...

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin is joined by Eric Fusfield, B'nai B'rith's director of legislative affairs and the deputy director of the B’nai B’rith International Center for Human Rights and Public Policy. They discuss the devastating mass shooting on Saturday, October 27, 2018 that killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborh...

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin is joined by Frank Goldman, the grandson of former B’nai B’rith International president Frank Goldman. As B’nai B’rith’s president, Goldman spearheaded the first openly pro-Zionist position that the organization had ever taken by publicly calling for the unrestricted immigration of European Jewish refugees into then-British contr...

In this podcast episode, guest Bill Benson sits down with host and B'nai B'rith International CEO to discuss his work interviewing Holocaust survivors before live audiences at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Benson shares what it is like to hear these poignant and deeply thought-provoking stories.

In this podcast episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin sits down with Bob Wechsler, author of The Jewish Baseball Card Book, to talk about the role of Jews--and their baseball cards--in the history of baseball.

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin sits down with B'nai B'rith Magazine Editor Eugene L. Meyer Meyer to discuss his latest book, "Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army." Very little is known about the five African American soldiers who fought in John Brown's army, and Meyer aims to shed light on these courageous men. 

July 18, 2018 marks the 24th anniversary since the tragic bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin talks with B'nai B'rith International's Special Advisor on Latin American Affairs Adriana Camisar about a critical recent development in this case. Alberto Nisman, the federal prosecutor who had been investigati...

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin sits down with B'nai B'rith International's Archivist Cheryl Kempler to discuss the relationship between B'nai B'rith and the Jews of Romania. As the first European country to establish B'nai B'rith lodges, Romania has a special place in B'nai B'rith's history. Listen to learn more about this history and the ways in which B'nai B...

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin talks with the Associate Director of B'nai B'rith International's Center for Senior Services Janel Doughten about several challenges and solutions for residents of B'nai B'rith's affordable housing buildings. In particular, they discuss the challenge of bullying in these residential communities, as well as the role of residents’...

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin is joined by Dr. Erica Miller, a clinical psychologist whose life has taken her from Romania, where she and her family were forced into a concentration camp during the Holocaust when she was a child, to Israel, where her family immigrated when Miller was 15 years old. In Israel, Miller eventually joined the Israeli Air Force, whe...

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin talks with guests Alan Schneider, director of B'nai B'rith's World Center-Jerusalem, and Avraham Huli, B'nai B'rith's international vice president. They discuss the phenomenon of Jews rescuing other Jews during the Holocaust; many of their stories have remained largely unknown until now. They also discuss a film currently in prod...

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin talks with Stefanie Halpern, the assistant director of the archives at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. Halpern received her Ph. D. in Jewish Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where she focused on the influence of the Yiddish stage on American theatrical culture. During this episode,...

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin and B'nai B'rith International's Director of United Nations and Intercommunal Affairs David Michaels discussed B'nai B'rith's advocacy work on behalf of Israel at both UNESCO and the United Nations Human Rights Council.

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin talks with B'nai B'rith International's Assistant Director for the International Center for Human Rights aand Public Policy and Director of the Cuban Jewish Relief Project Sienna Girgenti about B'nai B'rith's work in Latin America, including disaster relief efforts in Cuba and the upcoming Summit of the Americas.

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin talks with B'nai B'rith International's Archivist and Staff Writer Cheryl Kempler about the beginnings of B'nai B'rith and its early history as an organization.

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin and B'nai B'rith International's Assistant Director for Aging Policy Evan Carmen discussed Congress's tax bill and its implications for seniors.

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin speaks with B'nai B'rith International's Assistant Director for Aging Policy Evan Carmen about his role advocating for seniors' expanded access to affordable housing through his work with the U.S. Congress.

In this episode, B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin and B'nai B'rith International's Director of Legislative Affairs Eric Fusfield discuss the implications of President Trump's announcement to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin speaks with Art and Music Specialist Cheryl Kempler about the history of B'nai B'rith in Czechoslovakia.

B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin is joined by Social Security Administration Chief Actuary Stephen Goss to discuss the current state and future of Social Security. 

B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin is joined by Director of U.N. Affairs David Michaels and Program Officer for U.N. Affairs Oren Drori to preview the upcoming United Nations General Assembly.

B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin is joined by the European Commission's Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism Katharina von Schnurbein to discuss her efforts to coordinate and strengthen policy response to anti-Semitism, as well as hate crimes and discrimination.

B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin is joined by the owner and operator of Essen Bakery Tova du Plessis – a Jewish bakery in South Philadelphia.

B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin is joined by B'nai B'rith Special Advisor on Latin America Affairs Adriana Camisar to discuss the 23rd anniversary of the horrific 1994 terrorist attack on the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires.