No Reservations With Jamie Geller

For our series finale, No Reservations heads to Los Angeles, shutting down the iconic Milky Way restaurant for an intimate conversation with Patti Stanger, the Million Dollar Matchmaker. Patti comes from three generations of matchmakers and has spent her career helping others find love. But today she gets honest about her own journey: the trauma she's healed, the patterns she's broken, and...

She went places most journalists refused to go. She saw things the soul was never meant to see, and she went back again and again. Chen Schimmel is a photojournalist who spent the year after October 7th documenting the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Her photograph "Holy Work" an ultra-Orthodox Zaka volunteer cleaning blood from a secular kibbutz, won Photo of th...

What does it look like when a woman builds a 25-year Hollywood career, on her own terms, and then loses almost everything, only to discover she's exactly where she was always meant to be? Diane Neal, best known as District Attorney Casey Novak on Law & Order: SVU, joins Jamie Geller at the Aish World Centre overlooking the Western Wall in Jerusalem for one of the most raw, real, and riveti...

She was on track for Juilliard. She was also buying cocaine and climbing out her bedroom window at night. Nobody knew. This is Ariella Zeitlin's story. In this episode of No Reservations, Jamie Geller sits down with Ariella Zeitlin — musician, performer, and healer — whose life story most people who've watched her on stage have never heard. Ariella grew up inside two worlds that didn't...

In this episode of No Reservations, I sat down with Bari Erber to talk about the journey behind one of the most influential Jewish philanthropic families in the world and the personal story that shaped her along the way. Bari spoke openly about the difficult chapters she has lived through, the moments that could have broken her, and how those experiences reshaped her understanding of faith, respon...

In this episode of No Reservations, I sit down with Hannah Abitbul, formerly known in Mexico as child actress and telenovela star Ximena Orozco, for a conversation about fame, faith, loss, and the search for truth. Hannah grew up in the spotlight, recognized on the streets of Mexico City and built a career in television from childhood. But behind the success, she was searching for something deeper...

In this episode of No Reservations, I sit down with Alyssa Rosenheck, an architectural and interior design photographer whose work has appeared in Vogue, Elle, Architectural Digest, and other leading design publications. Alyssa came up in an industry that rewards aesthetic excellence and discourages friction. For years, her work spoke for itself. Her Jewish identity didn’t need to be foregrounded,...

Melanie Shiraz didn’t enter Miss Universe for a crown. She entered with a message. She is Miss Israel 2024, a data scientist and former tech founder who stepped onto one of the biggest stages in the world knowing the cost. Her national costume, a yellow hostage dress covered in 2,150 flowers, was stolen days before the competition. She rebuilt it overnight. Minutes before walking on stage, she cut...

Orit Mark Ettinger is 26 years old. In the last eight years, she has buried four people she loves: Her father, Michael, was killed instantly when terrorists opened fire on their car with 29 bullets. Her mother was shot in the head and suffered a traumatic brain injury. Her younger siblings were in the back seat. Her oldest brother, Shlomi, was killed in a horrific car accident at 29, leaving behin...

In this episode of No Reservations, I sit down with Tamir Goodman to talk about what happens when being turned into a symbol starts to cost more than it gives. They called him “The Jewish Jordan.” They celebrated the story, the symbolism, the inspiration. Until he no longer fit neatly into the version of him they wanted. This isn’t a basketball success story. It’s about projection, pressure, and t...

In this episode of No Reservations, I sit down with Eve Barlow, music journalist, former deputy editor of NME, and one of the most outspoken voices confronting modern antisemitism and global disinformation. Eve’s life split into “before” and “after” one tweet. In May 2020, in the days after George Floyd’s murder, synagogues were vandalized in Los Angeles, and Eve wrote a sentence that should’ve be...

In this inaugural episode of my new podcast, No Reservations, I sit down at our unique table set on the roof of the Dan Family Aish World Center with Nissim Black, an American-Israeli rapper, songwriter, record producer, and podcast host. Nissim shared his story with me, one that will shake you to your core. The story of a boy who grew up in a house where fried chicken came with a side of cocaine....