Real Life Rabbinics Podcast

A Modern Churban and Geula: Reflections from Shura after Oct. 7th – R’ Binyamin Zimmerman 06.07.2026 52:00 ↓

Overview: In this season finale, Rabbi Binyamin Zimmerman reflects on his experiences serving as a captain in the IDF Rabbinate at Machane Shura in the aftermath of October 7th. How do you pasken impossible halachic questions when little to no teshuvos have ever been written on the subject? How do you carry unimaginable tragedy while helping others find clarity? How do you postpone your own grief...

Self Awareness & the Emotionally Intelligent Rabbi - R' Dr. Alex Mondrow 23.06.2026 57:01 ↓

Overview: In this episode, R’ Dr. Alex Mondrow explores the role of emotional intelligence in rabbinic leadership. How do we become more aware of our own emotional strengths and blind spots? How do we receive difficult feedback without becoming defensive? What's the difference between understanding someone's pain and truly being present with them? And why might a rabbi's ability to sit silently wi...

RIETS Israel Kollel Celebrating 50 Years: Part 3 – The Later Years (Featuring R' Reuven Brand, R' Zvi Kaminetsky and R' Eliav Silverman) 11.06.2026 58:15 ↓

Featuring: R' Reuven Brand, R' Zvi Kaminetzky and R' Eliav Silverman OVERVIEW: In this final episode of our series celebrating 50 years of the RIETS Israel Kollel, R' Eliav Silverman, R' Reuven Brand, and R' Zvi Kaminetzky reflect on the later years of the Kollel. What was unique about learning in a beis medrash where the rabbeim were always present and accessible? How did Rav Dovid Miller's ideal...

RIETS Israel Kollel Celebrating 50 Years: Part 2– The Early Years (Featuring R' Ari Kahn, R' Moshe Lichtman & R' Daniel Yolkut) 11.03.2026 1:06:08 ↓

Featuring: R' Ari Kahn, R' Moshe Lichtman & R' Daniel Yolkut R’ Ari Khan is Director of Foreign Student Programs at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He also serves as Rav of the Mishkan Etrog community in Givat Ze’ev. Contact: adk1010@gmail.com R’ Moshe Lichtman teaches in several yeshivas and seminaries in Israel. He has also written several seforim focusing on Eretz Yisrael, including a transl...

RIETS Israel Kollel Celebrating 50 Years: Part 1 – Rav Dovid Miller 04.02.2026 53:02 ↓

Rabbi Dovid Miller , Rosh Yeshiva and Rosh Kollel, RIETS Israel Kollel and the Benjamin and Charlotte Gottesfeld Chair in Talmud Contact: dmiller@yu.edu OVERVIEW: In this first episode of our three-part series celebrating 50 years of the RIETS Israel Kollel on the Gruss Campus, we hear from Rav Dovid Miller, who has served as Rosh Kollel for all fifty years. How did the Kollel begin, and how did i...

Gambling in the Jewish Community: Part 2 — A Personal Story and the Work of Recovery - Ike Dweck 05.01.2026 46:59 ↓

Ike Dweck, Founder and CEO of the SAFE Foundation Contact Ike -  ike@thesafefoundation.org OVERVIEW: In Part 2 of  Gambling in the Jewish Community , we continue the conversation by shifting from a clinical lens to someone with personal experience with gambling addiction. Ike Dweck speaks with remarkable honesty about his own struggle with gambling as a teenager and the journey that ulti...