This Weeks Story relives American history and Bible through brief inspiring stories presented on mp3 audios and text for reading.
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On Story of the Week, “journalist” Joel Stein chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer to tell him about it, and then interrupts a good conversation by talking about himself. Sometimes the story will be the one everyone is talking about, like the New Yorker article on smoking hallucinogenic toads. Other times we’ll find a story you might have missed, like the one in the Verge about the rock groupie turned hacker who had huge corporations at her mercy. These are stories yo ...
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Podcast by The Chassidic Story Project with Barak Hullman
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Storytelling Podcast Week showcases podcasters and shows from narrative non-fiction to audio dramas. Join our Monthly LIVE episode events and enjoy new episodes here on Podbean.
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An unlikely source of weekly commentary produced by The Conversation Project, 'The Story Of The Week' allows the owner and curator of news articles for The Conversation Project a chance to take a deep dive into one of the more conversational news stories of the week. J Cleveland Payne chooses a story that was featured in the top ten stories of the week per data on engagement presented in "The Weekly Wrap-Up," offering his person view along with notes of how the story's coverage was received ...
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31 men, only one woman, and a new baby map a route across the West!โดย Barbara Steiner
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This week I have two stories for you for Chai Elul, the 18th of Elul which is the birthdays of both the Baal Shem Tov in 1698 and the Alter Rebbe in 1745. The first story is about a father with eighteen sons. He sends they off and asks them to come back five years later to share what Torah ideas they learned and the second about the Alter Rebbe put…
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This week I have three stories for you, the first is about a simple farmer that comes to the Alter Rebbe before Rosh Hashana and has no idea what a Rebbe is or does, the second about the power of praying at the time of lighting the candles for Shabbos and the third a story about Reb Meir Refaels and how he became a chassid of the Alter Rebbe.If you…
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The role of AI in the classroom is evolving rapidly. When students and teachers embrace this technology, it has the ability to democratize access to education through programs like IBM SkillsBuild. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Dr. Laurie Santos, host of Pushkin’s The Happiness Lab podcast, spoke with two innovators in the space. Justina…
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Fact and fiction swirl around Sacajawea, including surprises.โดย Barbara Steiner
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You Are A Jew, Go Back To Your People
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This week I have two stories for you, the first about a Torah scholar and his wife running out of food and money and what happens after the husband finds a silver coin and the second about a Jew that gets involved in Native American culture in the 1970s and eventually finds his way to Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld.If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories,…
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Jesus demonstrates unique power with natures forces and a man possessed with demons.โดย Barbara Steiner
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The Man In White And Smelly Fish
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This week I have one long story for you about a wealthy miser that goes on a very long spiritual journey.If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/the-man-in-white-and-smel…
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Elizabeth Packard becomes a tenacious, effective crusader for womens legal rights and the mentally ill when their rights are often legally ignored.โดย Barbara Steiner
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God Will Hear And God Will Answer
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This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a wealthy Jew who doesn't believe in tzadikim or Rebbes, but his wife goes to Reb Meirl of Premishlan for a blessing for children and the second a story about Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz and he power of prayer If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy …
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Theophilus plots to place Elizabeth into another asylum.The Law of Coverture will not protect her.โดย Barbara Steiner
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The Land Was Very, Very Good!
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This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a wealthy Jew who disagrees with his rebbe and goes to find another that will see things like him and the second about a great rabbi in Jerusalem disagreeing with Rabbi Shmuel of Zichlin. If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.c…
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Though trapped in an asylum, Elizabeth Packard helps patients and continues her search for freedom.โดย Barbara Steiner
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This week I have three stories for you the first about a young Yisrael Abergel who comes to a hidden Tzadik in Yafo that tells him he can speak with souls that have been reincarnated into animals, the second about a miser who won't help the Jews in the Land of Israel and the third about a girl near Melbourne who wants to convert to Judaism. If you'…
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Elizabeth Packard is moved into an asylum ward where harsh treatment often breaks patients spirits. She is determined to survive and help patients.โดย Barbara Steiner
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The Hidden Revealed Ways Of Heaven
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This week I have two stories for you the first about a wealthy Jew that comes to the Baal Shem Tov to ask for a blessing for a child, but it comes with a condition that the child not touch the ground until he's 4 years old and the second about the great rabbi and scholar, Rabbi Shmuel Shtrashun, the Rashash who made a grave mistake and the effects …
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Elizabeth Packard discovers that she has been tricked by the director of Jacksonville Insane Asylum. She takes action!โดย Barbara Steiner
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This week I have two stories for you the first about a chassid who made a business deal that went really wrong and came to his rebbe, Reb Dovid Tzvi of Neushtadt for advice and the second about a chassid of the Sadigora Rebbe who ended up going to the Lubavitcher Rebbe for advice on a business deal.If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please …
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While Elizabeth Packard discovers abuse to patients, she shines God's hope to them, which puts her into jeopardy.โดย Barbara Steiner
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From Where Does This Jew Come From
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This week I have two stories for you for Yud Beis and Yud Gimmel Tamuz, the festival of liberation of the Rebbe Rayatz, the first is about a chassid of the Rebbe Rayatz who is arrested by the NKVD secret police and goes to the Rebbe for advice and the second is about the hesitations of Rebbetzin Tzviyah Eliyahu about her husband becoming the chief …
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Meet a pioneer circuit rider, Peter Cartwright.โดย Barbara Steiner
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A Blessing In Paris (Stories For Gimmel Tamuz)
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This week I have two stories for you for Gimmel Tamuz, the yahrzeit of the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, the first is about the miraculous birth of someone who never met the Lubavitcher Rebbe and the second about a promising yeshiva bocher who tried to lie to the Rebbe.If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coff…
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Tenacity drove Marine recruits and the signers of the Declaration of Independence.โดย Barbara Steiner
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An Unexpected Turn Of Events
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This week I have three stories for you, the first is about a simple chassid of the Shpoler Zayde who has his life saving stolen by a Russian solider and goes to the Tzadik for help, the second about an undercover unit in the IDF deciding to wear tzitziot and the third about Reb Mordechai Dov of Hornisteipl who needed to have surgery to remove a sor…
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Only in America would such people mix and argue about the government they wanted.โดย Barbara Steiner
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a wealthy Jew who comes to the Chasam Sofer for a loan and the second about the Rebbe Maharash before he was rebbe and a very insistent woman who wanted a blessing for children.If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhul…
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Could Elizabeth trust superintendent McFarland or was he deliberately crushing female independence?โดย Barbara Steiner
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One Mitzvah Or Thousands Of Mitzvot?
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a wedding dowry and the controversy that it creates and the second about a very insistent milkman who finds a bag of coins in the street.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your…
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Elizabeth Packard is betrayed by her husband and the superintendent of the mental asylum.โดย Barbara Steiner
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Is The Baal Shem Tov Truly Holy
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about how the Maggid of Mezritch came to find out if the Baal Shem Tov is truly holy or just does miracles and the second about a special chevruta of two Torah scholars and one of them having doubts about Hashem's existance.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to bu…
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Elizabeth Packard is abandoned by her husband and declares, I have used my reason, not lost it!โดย Barbara Steiner
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A Stuffed Lion, A Suit And A Rabbi
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a Misnaged (an opposer to the Chassidim) who came to Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk to determine whether he was really a tzadik or a big fake and the second a story I heard on shabbos when a Haredi rabbi was asked by an injured former solider why Haredim like him don't have to serve in the IDF.If …
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Elizabeth Packard is forced to spend her first night in Jacksonville Insane Asylum in 1860.โดย Barbara Steiner
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Thank You Hashem For Burning Down My House
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a wealthy Torah scholar who insists that the Baal Shem Tov teach him the secret of understanding the birds' speech and the second about an unlikely Chassidic minyan in the middle of nowhere in Italy.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. http…
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Betrayal and trickery result in Elizabeth Packard's legal kidnapping to a mental asylum in 1860.โดย Barbara Steiner
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Asking For The Right Blessings
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a German Jewish businessman who comes to Reb Yishochor DovBer of Radoshitz (known also as the Saba Kadisha) for a blessing to heal his son who has been deaf since birth and the second about Rabbi Yaakova Landa, a close Chassid of the Rebbe Rashab who asks the rebbe for an unual request.If you…
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Elizabeth Packard's husband committed his wife to an Illinois insane asylum for refusing to accept his viewpoints.โดย Barbara Steiner
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The Horse Thief And The Wayward Son
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a Jewish businessman falsely accused of stealing who comes to the Shpoler Zayde for a blessing not to have to go to jail and the second about the love Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe had for his wayward son.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://k…
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I was amazed that Mom was so humble and strong that she apologized to me.โดย Barbara Steiner
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about Rabbi Asher Zeev Werner of Tiberias who can't figure out how to pay for his yeshiva's expenses until he has a dream and the second a gift given by Rabbi Meir Shapiro to a young boy that does wonders.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. http…
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Was Jesus going to stay in His tomb?โดย Barbara Steiner
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about an old Torah scholar in Tzfat who asks for a crazy blessing from the Baba Sali and the second about a wealthy Jew in Toronto who needed help from the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullma…
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With new courage Joseph asks, May I have the body of Jesus?โดย Barbara Steiner
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A Roman centurion is shocked by what happens at the crucifixion of Jesus.โดย Barbara Steiner
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An Erev Pesach Visitor (Baal Shem Tov Story) and Previous Pesach Stories
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This week I have two stories for you and then all of the previous Pesach stories from past years, the first story this week is about a chassid of the Baal Shem Tov who comes to visit his grandson, the Rebbe Reb Baruch of Mezibuz just before Pesach and the second about a wine merchant who wants to get a Kosher for Pesach certification from Rabbi Yec…
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Arrested, charged, tried, and sentenced! Unfair! Jesus is not guilty!โดย Barbara Steiner
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The Agunah, The Beggar And A Piece Of Matza
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about an Agunah, a Jewish woman stuck in her marriage because her husband can't or won't give her a divorce, who comes to the Tzemach Tzedek for help and the second about Reb Mendel Futerfas and Pesach in the Gulag.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a co…
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Peters swift defense is followed with cowardice.โดย Barbara Steiner
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Discovering A Buried Treasure
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a visiting beggar that spreads a rumor that gets him invited to the wealthiest Jews homes and the second about the Apta Rav having divine inspiration that contradicts the Torah.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhul…
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Am I a dangerous criminal? Is that why you brought weapons to help you take me?โดย Barbara Steiner
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