Great chat with the author of A Novel Crime, Deborah Levison! Deborah discusses her books, being the daughter of Holocaust survivors, the real-life crime embroiling her family, which led to her book The Crate, & much more!

Had a great chat with the author of Hands of Gold, Roni Robbins! Roni discusses the book based on her family, Hands of Gold, her career in journalism, and interviewing people such as Hank Aaron, her family having a Blacksmith business when she was growing up, and much more!

Had a great chat with the author of Your Roots Cast a Shadow, Caroline Topperman! Caroline discusses her book, Your Roots Cast a Shadow, owning a Pilates studio with celebrity clients, tracing back her roots in Poland, and much more!

Had a great chat with The Accidental Talmudist, Sal Litvak! Sal discusses his path to becoming The Accidental Talmudist, his new movie Guns & Moses, his book Let My People Laugh, & much more!

Great chat with the publisher of Green Bean Books, Michael Leventhal! Michael discusses what he looks for when acquiring books, his own books Jews in Britain, The Chocolate King, and others, the Jewish food charity he had put together, GefilteFest, & much more!

Great chat with the author of Hollywood Ending: The Dreams and Drama of the LeBron Lakers, Yaron Weitzman! Yaron discusses LeBron on the Lakers and power struggles on the team, behind-the-scenes storylines with the Buss family, being responsible for bringing Cheez Doodles to Stephen A Smith, & more

Had a great chat with the writers of the fun time travel classic, Peggy Sue Got Married, Arlene Sarner and Jerry Leichtling! Arlene and Jerry discuss the making of Peggy Sue Got Married, behind-the-scenes stories, their film Blue Sky with Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Lange, & more!

Had a great chat with the author of Rewriting the Rules, Danna Zeiger! Danna discusses her book Rewriting the Rules about the life of Dr. Kathleen Friel, being a Biology professor at Fisher College, how her father was a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, & much more! #interview #podcast

Had a great chat with multimedia journalist Sharon Geltner! Sharon discusses her career in journalism, her interactive marketing firm Froogle PR, her book Charity Bashed, & much more! #interview #podcast #Jewish #author #journalist

Over at The Jewish Lens, I had a great chat with the author of The Night Sparrow, Shelly Sanders! Shelly discusses her book The Night Sparrow, discovering she was Jewish as a teen, visiting Latvia and finding out that she had ancestors murdered in the Holocaust, and much more.

Had such a fun chat with the Executive Director at Chabad of Coral Springs, Rabbi Avraham Friedman! Rabbi Friedman discusses growing up in Brooklyn in a Chabad household, fighting antisemitism in a post-October 7th world, his podcast Sunday Morning Torah & Coffee, & much more! #podcast #Jewish

Had a great chat with the author of My Other Half, David Isaacson! David discusses the story behind his book, doing film reviews, antisemitism in London, and much more! #podcast #Jewish #writing #author

Had a great chat with the CEO of the Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona, Hava Holzhauer! Hava discusses growing up as the descendant of Holocaust survivors, her role as the President and CEO of Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona, her work as the Regional Director of the ADL, & more!

Had a great chat with the president of the Yiddish Book Center, Susan Bronson! Susan discusses the history of the Yiddish Book Center, the different collections they have, upcoming exhibits, & much more! #Jewish #podcast #Books #Writing

Had a great chat with the lead singer of Ottowan, Esther de Bijl-Langen! Esther discusses being part of Ottowan and having hits with Hands Up and D.I.S.C.O., discovering her Jewish roots, how her grandfather helped rescue Jews from the Nazis, & much more! #Interview #podcast #80s

Over at Judith Magazine, @houseofrosen.bsky.social writes about Jews and "privilege". Please check it out.

Had a great chat with the editor of The Practicing Writer Newsletter, Erika Dreifus! @erikadreifus.bsky.social discusses her popular newsletter, her books, Birthright: Poems, and Quiet Americans: Stories, being a board member of Artists Against Antisemitism & The Leo Baeck Institute, & much more!

I had a great chat with award-winning author Barbara Bottner! Barbara discusses her writing career, the time she spent writing scripts for Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories and other TV shows, having lunch with Jim Henson and writing a song for a Sesame Street album, & much more! #podcast

Had a great chat with the author of Chai Noon, Jonathan Friedmann! Jonathan discusses his book about Jews in Westerns, Chai Noon, his podcast, Amusing Jews, the Jewish Museum of the American West, & much more!

Had a great chat with the author of The Delegation, Avner Landes! Avner discusses his unique book The Delegation, which has three different layers of reading, being influenced by and compared to Saul Bellow, his writing journey, and much more!

Had a great chat with the author of Go on Pretending, Alina Adams! Alina discusses her book Go on Pretending, writing for Soap Operas, the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan in the Soviet Union, & much more! #podcast #Jewish #author #writing #interview

Had a great chat with the author of Miriam’s Magical Creatures Files, Leah Cypess! @leahcypess.bsky.social discusses her new series Miriam's Magical Creature Files, the Sisters Ever After series, experiences while hiking in Costa Rica at night, & much more! #podcast #author

Had a great chat with the creator of the Heroes of October 7th Project, Hadassa Ben-Ari! Hadassa discusses the Octber 7th Project, talking with kids about difficult subjects, selecting which stories to include in the book, & much more! #podcast #jewish

Had a great chat with the author of The Center of the Earth, Darlene Campos! Darlene is joined by survivor Pete Phillips, as they discuss Darlene's book, how Ecuador took in Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, how Pete's family sought shelter there. Darlene's conversion to Judaism, and much more!

Had a great chat with actress and talk show host Caryn Richman! Caryn discusses her Jewish upbringing, starring in the 80s sitcom The New Gidget, her role as Greg Brady's wife in The Bradys, co-hosting the talk show Chatterbinge, & much more! #Podcast #interview

Had a great chat with the author of In That Sleep of Death, Jonathan Dunsky! Jonathan Dunsky talks about his series of Adam Lapid books, giving historical tours based on the locations in his books, teaching himself English by reading Stephen King, & much more!

Had a great chat with Roy Schwartz, the author of Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero! Roy discusses his book, Jewish themes and mythology in other comics, his documentary Jewce: The Jewish Comics Experience, & much more! #podcast #superman #Jewish

It was great to welcome back the author of Found & Lost: the Jake & Cait Story, Howard Lovy! Howard discusses Found & Lost, his role as nonfiction editor at Judith Magazine, speaking at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference, & much more! #podcast #Jewish #writer #author

Had a great chat with the director of the acclaimed documentary When Jews Were Funny, Alan Zweig! Alan discusses the making of the documentary, his other documentaries such as Vinyl, and I, Curmudgeon, his podcast series The Worst Podcast, & much more! #podcast #movie #documentary

Had a great chat with the director and star of the comedy-thriller Yaniv, Amnon Carmi and Ben Ducoff! Amnon and Ben discuss the making of the film, the rules of the card game Yaniv, getting financing to produce the film, having Menemsha films become involved, & much more! #movie #Jewish

Great chat with the author of Hiding in Plain Sight, Julie Brill! @juliebrill.bsky.social discusses her book Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, her father's experiences living under Nazi occupation, her career as a lactation consultant, & more!

Had a great chat with the author of Murder without a Duck, Claudia Long! Claudia discusses the fun mystery Murder without a Duck, her historical fiction about Jews living in Colonial Mexico, having one of her books optioned for a film, & much more! #podcast #jewish #writing #author

Had a great chat with Anat Kogan and Dalia Levine, founders of The Step Forward program. Anat and Dalia talk about the Step Forward program which helps bring needed supplies to Israeli soldiers. #podcast #Jewish

Had a great chat with the creator of The Israeli Jazz Project, Raphael Perez! Raphael discusses the Israeli Jazz Project, his book Israeli Jazz: The Blend of Blends, how the roots of the current movement took hold in the 1920s, & much more! #podcast

Had a great chat with Summer Brenner, the author of Dust! Summer discusses the memoir about her brother who suffered from schizophrenia, her time living in Paris, growing up in Atlanta and having a bomb go off in her synagogue, & much more! #podcast #Jewish

Had a great chat with the author of Pale of Settlement, Josh Eiserike! Josh talks about his graphic novel Pale of Settlement, a cross between Stranger Things and Fiddler on the Roof minus the songs, writing for the GI Joe animated series and the Vampire Diaries spin-off, Legacies, & more!

Had a great chat with Voice-Over artist, Jill Kenton! Jill discusses her work as a voice-over artist, her new company Chatterpod which specializes in podcast production, being the personal fitter to Princess Di when her family owned the boutique lingerie company Rigby & Peller, & much more!

Had a great chat with the author of The Wayward Moon, Janice Segal Weizman! Janice discusses her books The Wayward Moon and Our Little Histories, growing up in Canada and moving to Israel, her Jewish book review site Reading Jewish Fiction, & much more! #podcast #interview #Jewish

Had a great chat with the author of Hugging My Father's Ghost, Zack Rogow! Zack talks about being the son of the famous drama critic, Lee Rogow, who died when Zack was 3, learning about the man he never knew, friends of his parents such as authors Ira Levin and Herman Wouk, his book, and much more!

Had a great chat with the Senior National Correspondent at Jewish Insider, Gabby Deutch! Gabby discusses her career in journalism, growing up as the child of a congressman, antisemitism on college campuses, her research into the unsolved 1984 murder of Rabbi Philip Rabinowitz, & much more! #podcast

Had a great chatwith the author of We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story, Frank W Baker! Frank discusses his graphic novel about the lives of Bluma and Felix Goldberg, teaching Holocaust studies in schools, misinformation on social media, & much more! #podcast #Jewish

Had a great chat with the director of the new dark comedy from Menemsha Films, Daniel Robbins! Daniel discusses the making of Bad Shabbos, directing celebrities such as Kyra Sedgwick and Method Man, his previous horror film The Pledge, & much more! #Podcast #Jewish #Movie #comedy

Had a great chat with comedian Leah Forster! Leah discusses her career in comedy, coming out after growing up in an orthodox household, her off-Broadway show That's Yentatainment, her book Club Miilff, and much more! #podcast #Jewish

Had a great chat with the V.P. of alumni relations and team historian for the New York Mets, Jay Horwitz! Jay talks the importance of making every player feel valued, the 80s Mets keeping him on his toes, the Mike Piazza post 9/11 Home Run, & much more! #podcast #Mets

Had a great chat with the CEO of Holistic Hemp Solutions, Julie Ann Mejia! Julie Ann discusses how hemp products helped with her own recovery from injury, how she's become a leading voice in the industry, her company Holistic Hemp Solutions, how hemp can help with a variety of ailments, & more!

Had a great chat with author Galina Vromen! Galina discusses her time as director of The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, helping launch PJ Library, her new book Hill of Secrets, & much more! #podcast #author #writing

Had a great chat with author Jennifer Friedman Lang! Jennifer discusses her memoirs Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Poses, and Places We Left Behind, running the Israeli Writers Studio, being a Yoga Instructor, her time living in France, & much more! #podcast #Jewish #author #writing

Had a great chat with rapper Kosha Dillz! We discuss his journey from being the son of immigrants to rapping, overcoming addiction, collaborating with people such a RZA and Nissim Black, having a video where he performed with Fat Joe go viral, combating antisemitism, & much more! #podcast

Had a great chat with columnist and author Judy Gruen! Judy discusses her time as a columnist, interviewing people such as Clarence Clemons, visiting the Soviet Union, her books including her memoir Bylines and Blessings, and much more! #podcast #jewish #Writing

Had a great chat with Julie Silverstein & Tami Schlossberg Pruwer, authors of Chutzpah Girls! Julie and Tami discuss the meanings of the word Chutzpah, how the book came to be, how they chose the women selected for the book, what they're working on next, & much more! #Kidlit #writers #Jewish