The Frieda Vizel Podcast

Video link to this episode: https://youtu.be/gwCyNjr2vU0

Today I am talking to Doran from the channel  @TheEasyWayDMS  about philosophical subjects. What is antisemitism? How does it form and change? What are the guises it comes in? In a world in which there's so much muddled dialogue about antisemitism, I thought it was important to have a nuanced, thoughtful conversation. I invite your comments and thoughts.

For more on this subject, see these videos:
Everyone is talking about Jews: https://youtu.be/A1aOTCsYQfM
My experience with antisemitism as a Jewish content creator: https://youtube.com/live/IZuSqgQGDBU
Antisemitic attack in the UK with Izzy Posen https://youtu.be/IfWm5mlQRwg
He lived through the Bondi Beach attack: https://youtu.be/css7bPGITTE

Also, check out my conversation with Doran for his channel.
https://youtu.be/utFUQCFnqdc?si=UEUJJjqYDNKhdoie

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Video link to this conversation: https://youtu.be/uQ8YqHA_id8

📸 Videography: Upperdeck Film / https://www.instagram.com/upperdeck_film/ 
✂️ Edited: Lee Kupac / @mayo.nap 
👰 Wedding footage: Shmilly Feldman / https://www.instagram.com/chasidish_lifter/
More content with Pearl: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhW2QoO54ycylVdMte0xOgmKWkyksKzyv&si=hOy-eozSCg2cWErr

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Video link to this monologue: https://youtu.be/A1aOTCsYQfM

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Video link to this conversation: https://youtu.be/92Q4LAxh_Ug

A year ago, Pearl sparked one of the most heated discussions on this channel.
As a Satmar Hasidic woman, she shared her views on the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, Israel, and Zionism—views that many viewers strongly disagreed with. The response was intense.
In this conversation, I sit down with Pearl again and ask her how she feels about the backlash, whether she regrets speaking so openly, and why she continues to stand by her beliefs.
This interview is not about agreeing or disagreeing. It is an opportunity to hear, in Pearl's own words, how a deeply religious Hasidic woman understands Jewish history, suffering, faith, anti-Semitism, and the role of Israel in the modern world.

Whatever your perspective, I hope this conversation helps illuminate a worldview that is rarely heard and often misunderstood.

As always, please keep the discussion respectful.

You can find many of my other podcasts with Pearl on podcast apps or on Youtube through this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhW2QoO54ycylVdMte0xOgmKWkyksKzyv

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Link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/aeVekOqP7-Y

The tables have turned! The wonderful, renowned Orthodox Jewish podcaster Dovid Bashevkin, host of 18forty, who interviewed me for his podcast, returned the favor and joined me for a candid conversation about the inside-outside perspectives. He inside, I outside, together we have an interest in the same thing from different angles.

Bashevkin is one of the most thoughtful voices in the Orthodox Jewish world, for a wide-ranging conversation about faith, doubt, Shabbos, Jewish identity, community, America, Israel, assimilation, spirituality, and what it means to build a meaningful Jewish life in 2026.
What makes this conversation especially interesting to me is that Dovid and I approach many of the same questions from different locations. He speaks from deep inside Orthodox communal life; I often speak from the margins, or from outside looking in. And yet we share a fascination with how people search for meaning, belonging, transcendence, and authenticity.

Links:
• Dovid Bashevkin on Twitter/X: [@DBashIdeas](https://x.com/DBashIdeas?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
• 18Forty podcast: [18Forty](https://18forty.org/podcasts/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
• My appearance on his podcast: [My conversation with Dovid Bashevkin on 18Forty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEaI-Paltfc&t=1s&utm_source=chatgpt.com)

We talked about:
• why he created the 18Forty podcast
• the “institutional scaffolding” of modern Jewish life
• why younger Jews are restless even inside successful communities
• Shabbos as both beautiful and difficult
• assimilation, identity, and the pressure to “earn” love
• celebrity culture and existential longing
• the future of American Orthodoxy
• why so many young Orthodox Jews are drawn to Israel
• cultural translation between Jewish worlds
• gum as contraband in Hasidic childhoods 😭

Thank you to all channel members, subscribers, viewers, and commenters who make these conversations possible.
Frieda

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