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Send us Fan Mail Podcast Description – Ep 403 (Education in Motion on hmTv) Episode Title: Education in Motion: Teaching Holocaust History Through Human Stories Host: Zach Graulich Guest: Kelly Fives In the premiere episode of Education in Motion on hmTv, host Zach Graulich , Assistant Director of Education at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center (HMTC), welcomes passionate educator and c...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 402 of Ordinary Heroes on hmTv, host Bernie Furshpan sits down with Sherona Varulkar for a fascinating conversation that spans 2,200 years of Jewish history and lands right here on Long Island. Sherona shares the remarkable story of the Bene Israel community, tracing their origins from the Holy Land to the west coast of India, and explains how Jewish identity, tradition...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Legacy Chronicles: Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future , Donna Rosenblum, Director of Education at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center, sits down with longtime HMTC docent and Second Generation Committee Chair Gail Kastenholz for a powerful conversation about memory, identity, and responsibility. Gail shares the remarkable story of her parents, Ralph...

Send us Fan Mail In Ep 398 (Part 2) of The Fog of War and Humanity on hmTv, host Richard Acritelli continues his conversation with U.S. Army veteran Donna Zephyrin, tracing her path from the Army Reserve to active duty in Savannah, Georgia, and into the earliest phase of the Iraq War. Donna describes the sharp culture shift between Reserve and active duty life, the demands of daily military discip...

Send us Fan Mail In Ep 399 (Part 3) of The Fog of War and Humanity on hmTv, host Richard Acritelli continues his powerful conversation with U.S. Army veteran Donna Zephyrin, tracing the closing chapters of her first Iraq tour and the rapid pivot into her second deployment. Donna recounts the move north to Garma, where daily threats, RPGs, and increasingly sophisticated IED tactics reshaped everyth...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast Description (Ep 400 – Part 4): The Fog of War and Humanity | hmTv Host Richard Acritelli concludes his powerful four-part conversation with U.S. Army veteran Donna Zephrine in this milestone 400th episode of The Fog of War and Humanity . In Part 4, Donna reflects on returning home from back-to-back deployments to Iraq and the emotional transition of leaving active duty. Sh...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 1 of Ep 397 of The Fog of War and Humanity on hmTv, host Richard Acritelli welcomes U.S. Army veteran Donna Zephyrin for a wide-ranging conversation that begins long before the War on Terror. Donna reflects on her upbringing, her early leadership and service through JROTC, and how navigating learning disabilities helped shape her work ethic, resilience, and drive to overac...

Send us Fan Mail In Ep 396 of The Past Has an Afterlife on hmTv, host Gilad Avrahami sits down with HMTC receptionist Tara Collins for a raw, deeply human conversation about memory, family history, and the ways the past continues to echo through our lives. Tara shares how Holocaust survivor stories shaped her understanding of resilience and forgiveness, then traces her own lineage through Irish po...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of The Israeli Bond on hmTv, host Gal Swisa Cohen welcomes back Aviv Lapid for a deeply personal continuation of her story. Aviv takes us minute by minute through the morning of October 7 in Sderot, when a routine red alert turned into something unimaginable, terrorists inside the city, constant rockets, and a terrifying realization that even the safe room did not feel s...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast Description (Ep 395 – The Israeli Bond | hmTv) In this powerful episode of The Israeli Bond on hmTv, host Gal Swisa Cohen sits down with Itay Cohen , a Shinshin (Shnat Sherut gap-year volunteer) serving with the Randy Wolba-Melinski Center for Israel delegation at the C. Jacob Solomon JCC on Long Island. Itay shares what it was like growing up in Kfar Saba , a liberal Isra...

Send us Fan Mail In Legacy Chronicles Episode 392, host Zachary Graulich welcomes Doron Keren, a second-generation Holocaust descendant carrying his family’s story forward with urgency and purpose. Doron shares the extraordinary survival of his grandfather Ignacy Heger, who led his family into the sewers of Nazi-occupied Lviv for fourteen months, aided by Polish sewer worker Leopold Socha. Doron a...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast Description (Ep 393 | The Israeli Bond | Part 1) Host: Gal Swisa Cohen Guest: Aviv Lapid hmTv | Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center What does it mean to grow up with only 15 seconds to find shelter? In this powerful episode of The Israeli Bond on hmTv, host Gal Swisa Cohen sits down with Aviv Lapid, a Shinshin (Shnat Sherut volunteer) with the Randy Wolbon Melinsky Cen...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast Description (Ep 391: The Butterfly Effect | hmTv) In this thoughtful episode of The Butterfly Effect on hmTv, host Gilad Avrahami is joined by co-host Bernie Furshpan for a powerful conversation about how the choices of the past shape the realities of the present. Together, they explore the “ripple effects” of decisions, memory, and lived experience, and how meaning is for...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast Description (Ep 390 – The Dana Download | hmTv) In this episode of The Dana Download , host Dana Arschin Kraslow sits down with Cori Cohen , founder of My Abroad MDs , a proactive healthcare platform created to help American travelers and students studying abroad connect with trusted, English-speaking doctors worldwide. Cori shares the deeply personal inspiration behind he...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 389 of Ordinary Heroes on hmTv, host Bernie Furshpan sits down with Lisa Zaretsky, founder of the Zaretsky Wellness Center and a deeply trained clinician and educator with advanced expertise spanning education, social work, and cognitive science. Together they explore what “wellness” really means beyond buzzwords, why the subconscious mind drives so much of our behavior...

Send us Fan Mail (Ep 388) In Part 2 of Habits of a Whole Heart , host Arnie Herz continues his inspiring conversation with Mo Wolfe , founder of Evolution Pilates in Port Washington, New York. After sharing her powerful personal journey in Part 1, Mo returns to explore deeper themes of gratitude, wholeness, and what it truly means to live with intention. Mo reflects on her recent trip to Bhutan ,...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 387 of Habits of a Whole Heart (Part 1) on hmTv, host Arnie Herz sits down with Mo Wolfe , founder of Evolution Pilates in Port Washington, New York, for a lively, eye-opening conversation about what Pilates really is and why it matters far beyond fitness. Mo shares her journey from magazine publishing to becoming a lifelong Pilates teacher and studio owner, and explain...

Send us Fan Mail In this heartwarming and lively episode of The Dana Download , Dana welcomes two of her favorite people from her broadcast career, Fox 5 reporter Jodi Goldberg and photojournalist (and fire chief) Jimmy McLoughlin. What starts as a reunion quickly becomes a funny, deeply personal, and surprisingly moving conversation. They reminisce about chasing stories across Long Island, share...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 385 of The Israeli Bond on hmTv features host Gal Swisa Cohen in a heartfelt and honest conversation with junior emissary Shaked Zazon about what it really means to grow up in Lod, a mixed Jewish Arab city in Israel’s social periphery. Shaked shares vivid memories of her childhood in a small, diverse school where Jews, Muslims, Christians, Ethiopians, and immigrants from a...

Send us Fan Mail Ep. 384: The Fog of War and Humanity — Sgt. Timothy Gene Molnar, Part 3 In this powerful continuation of his story, Sgt. Timothy Gene Molnar opens up about life on the road in Iraq, where every convoy meant uncertainty, discipline, and a constant pulse of adrenaline. Tim walks us through near-misses with IEDs and RPGs, the challenge of staying alert in brutal desert conditions, an...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 382: The Fog of War and Humanity with Richard Acritelli and guest Timothy Gene Molnar, Part 1 In this episode, Richard Acritelli sits down with longtime friend and fellow service member Timothy Gene Molnar to trace the path of an ordinary American kid who grew up to shoulder extraordinary responsibilities. From East Islip athletics to long hours practicing saxophone, Tim d...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 383: The Fog of War and Humanity Guest: Sgt. Timothy Gene Molnar — Part 2 In this powerful continuation, Sgt. Timothy Gene Molnar returns with host Richard Acritelli to walk through the moment the world changed on 9/11 and how it reshaped his life and military path. From delivering beer on Long Island to suddenly preparing for war, Tim shares the emotional whiplash, the ca...

Send us Fan Mail Ep 380 • The Fog of War and Humanity Richard Acritelli with Sgt. Joe Cognitore • Part 4 In this final chapter of their conversation, Richard Acritelli sits down once more with Sgt. Joe Cognitore to explore what happens after the uniform comes off. Joe opens up about the shock of returning home from Vietnam, trying to build a teaching career, the stigma veterans faced, and the long...

Send us Fan Mail Legacy Chronicles Ep 381: A Daughter’s Journey Through Memory with Barbara Murray In this powerful episode, host Donna Rosenblum sits down with longtime HMTC volunteer and Second Generation speaker, Barbara Murray , to explore what it means to grow up as the child of Holocaust survivors. Barbara opens her heart about her parents’ incredible path from Poland to Paris, to Soviet lab...

Send us Fan Mail Ep 379: The Fog of War and Humanity — Joe Cognitore, Part 3 In this powerful installment, Vietnam veteran and longtime veterans advocate Joe Cognitore joins host Richard Acritelli to continue recounting the realities of combat, leadership, and survival at the height of the Vietnam War. Joe takes us from the jungles of South Vietnam into the covert operations in Cambodia, describin...