Best Peters Jewish Stories Podcasts (2025)

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Taking a Hint 15:47

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According to the Jewish tradition one of the ways that God communicates with us is through hints. God talks to us through events in the natural world, in the human world and through experiences in our inner world. In this Podcast we hear stories of hints that come in very different ways: in the form of physical blows, dreams, listening to a convers…

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Tinashe Peter | God Is With Us | Israel-Hamas War | In Conversation with Shana Meyerson 1:49:34

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Tinashe Peter (the artist formerly known as Aquarius Waive) is a man of tremendous faith and moral conviction. If you have followed him on social media the past two years, you have witnessed a radical transformation. Truly an awakening. A repudiation of the Woke. A return to God. Sometimes names are Divine, and they define not just a person, but a …

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Expectations were high headed into the Raven's season. Can they bounce back from a rough start? 14:34

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Three games into the Raven's season and some are already calling it a wash. They stand 1-2 with a game this weekend against the Kansas City Chiefs.Gabe Ortis joins Midday for a roundup of the Ravens. Ortis is a WYPR's afternoon host, a former political consultant and the station's resident sports guru.…

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City Schools' CTE program preps students for real-world careers 34:12

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It’s Midday on Education.One measure of the quality of a public-school education is how well it prepares students to succeed in the real world after they graduate.To that end, the Baltimore City Public School System has embraced a state-wide vocational training program called Career and Technical Education, or CTE. Basically, the program offers mul…

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Acclaimed writer Ian McEwan's new novel is a literary detective story that bends genres 48:50

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Acclaimed author Ian McEwan's What We Can Know is an adventure into the future, into a tumultuous world shaken by climate disaster. The novel, like McEwan's Atonement, follows characters and events separated by many years.What We Can Know is suspenseful, complex, funny and more than a little frightening. It is a brilliant peroration about how histo…

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Jill Lepore's new history of the U.S. Constitution could not be more relevant to the current moment in politics 48:30

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On September 17, 1787, six years after fighting stopped in the war for independence, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the document that has endured as the most influential exemplar in the world of government by and for the people.The U.S. Constitution is an extraordinary document. A new book by the historian and jou…

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As horrors abound in Gaza, author Peter Beinart appeals for human dignity for all and a new Jewish identity 48:30

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At sundown tonight, Jewish people around the world will begin the observance of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Next week is Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. The High Holidays are a time of connecting to Jewish heritage and traditions, and a time of reflection, self-examination and repentance. Today on Midday, we speak to the…

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Eitan Halley | Resilience After Surviving Nova | Israel-Hamas War | In Conversation w/Shana Meyerson 1:14:59

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🔇 YOGA OF WAR PODCAST ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEk7dn2pk4QXmLMnBCB80yQXIIcBDYsi0 🔇 Impossible to imagine. But try. Try to imagine being at Burning Man, or Coachella, or Glastonbury, or Tomorrowland. Thousands of people, celebrating music and life and love and nature and peace. And then imagine bands of terrorists flooding …

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Rousuck's Review: August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson' at Everyman 6:53

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The Piano Lesson continues at the Everyman Theater (located at 315 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201) until Sunday, September 28.By WYPR 88.1 Baltimore

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Zeke Cohen on potential expansion of city bus service, and updates on Baltimore's crisis response after calls for change. 31:59

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Baltimore City Council President Zeke Cohen joins Midday every month to gives us a look at the happenings inside City Hall.Today, will Baltimore receive funds to expand Maryland Transit administration bus service? City leaders urged state transportation officials to prioritize that funding in their plans for the next half decade. Cohen provides an …

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Eitan Halley ✡️ Nova Festival Survivor Story ✡️ In Conversation with Shana Meyerson at JFed LA 1:04:13

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🇮🇱 WANT SHANA TO COME AND HOST A DISCUSSION OR SPEAK AT YOUR SYNAGOGUE, JCC, JEWISH FEDERATION, CHURCH, SCHOOL, OR OTHER EVENT? CONTACT ME AT YOGAOFWAR @ YOGATHLETICA.COM 🇮🇱 WATCH THE DISCUSSION ON YOUTUBE AT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGnMf3ACruA&list=PLEk7dn2pk4QXmLMnBCB80yQXIIcBDYsi0 Jewish Federation of Los Angeles hosts Nova Festival surv…

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MONSE's Stefanie Mavronis, UPenn expert Jeremy Biddle on curbing violence in Baltimore 22:06

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Joining Tom now in Studio A is Stefanie Mavronis, the director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, or MONSE, here in Baltimore. Her agency's mission is to implement the City’s public health approach to safety through Mayor Brandon M. Scott’s Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan. MONSE works with Baltimore residents, commu…

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Rep. McClain Delaney on protecting farmers, and battling cuts to food aid and health care 20:19

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Tom's first guest today is Congresswoman April McClain Delaney, a Democrat elected in 2024 to represent Maryland's sprawling 6th district, which includes all of Garrett, Allegany, Frederick, and Washington counties as well as a portion of Montgomery County. In Congress, Rep. McClain Delaney serves on both the House Agriculture Committee and the Hou…

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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom 56:17

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“My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery,” declared Jean‑Jacques Dessalines as he announced the independence of Haiti, the most radical nation‑state during the Age of Revolution and the first country ever to permanently outlaw slavery. Enslaved for the first thirty years of his life, Dessalines (c. 1758–1806) joined the revolution…

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Ivan Bates on 'smart-on-crime' approach to Baltimore public safety, and his focus on 'quality of life' crimes 37:56

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Ivan Bates, the State’s Attorney for the city of Baltimore, joins Midday today.State’s Attorney Bates took office in 2023. Over the past two years, the city has seen a sharp drop in violent crimes. According to the State’s Attorney’s office, 2,600 violent repeat offenders have been incarcerated, and the office has won more than 270 homicide convict…

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Innocence Project clinics train law students to exonerate the wrongly imprisoned, like Jeffrey Deskovic 28:21

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Today on Midday, a discussion about a far-too-common injustice in this country – the wrongful imprisonment of men and women who are innocent of the crimes for which they’ve been convicted.Experts say between 6- and 15% of the people sentenced to prison time in the United States are wrongly convicted. With approximately 2.3 million people currently …

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Baltimore poised to review PILOT agreement with its biggest nonprofit institutions 12:42

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Baltimore city is taking steps to revise an agreement with its major nonprofit institutions over how much they pay annually to the budget.As nonprofits, these 14 institutions do not pay property taxes but instead have a PILOT or payment-in-lieu-of-taxes. Combined they pay $6M annually for city services like policing, snow removal, road maintenance …

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Follow-up finds progress for worker conditions at city agency. That report and more with Baltimore's Inspector General. 39:15

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Baltimore City Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming leads her office in investigations into waste, fraud and abuse in city government. Cumming joins Midday to discuss her office's work.In the past year, her office launched high-profile investigations into poor working conditions at the Department of Public Works, a cyber-theft of more than $1.…

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Alex R. Tipei, "Unintended Nations: How French Liberals' Empire of Civilization Remade Southeast Europe and the Post-Napoleonic World" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025) 1:01:55

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In the wake of Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, French liberals set out to create an informal empire. Their efforts to cultivate unequal partnerships with Christian, Greek-speaking elites in southeast Europe shaped national identities and structured global civilizational hierarchies over the decades that followed. Unintended Nations: France’s Empire of C…

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Kalina Silverman: Creating Human Connection in a Disconnected World Through Big Talk 31:36

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Kalina Silverman is a documentary journalist, entrepreneur, speaker, and creator of Big Talk — an award-winning viral media project that highlights meaningful conversations to foster empathy and human connection. Over the years, people worldwide have shared how Big Talk transformed their lives—from reconnecting with estranged family members and fin…

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Kevin Passmore, "The Maginot Line: A New History of the Fall of France" (Yale UP, 2025) 1:06:48

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The Maginot Line was a marvel of 1930s engineering. The huge forts, up to eighty meters underground, contained hospitals, modern kitchens, telephone exchanges, and even electric trains. Kilometres of underground galleries led to casements hidden in the terrain, and turrets that rose from the ground to fire upon the enemy. The fortifications were in…

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Rousuck's Review: a Scottish "Ceilidh" at M&T Bank Exchange 10:22

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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the lively Scottish musical "Ceilidh" (pronounced KAY-lee) now playing at the M&T Bank Exchange performance space next to the Hippodrome Theater.By WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore

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Limmie Pulliam, Mark Markham to perform at Sunday's "Community Concerts at 2nd" in Baltimore 13:32

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Vocalist Limmie Pulliam and pianist Mark Markham will perform a program of gospel songs and arias as part of the free "Community Concerts at 2nd" series at the Second Presbyterian Church Sunday September 14, 2025.By WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore

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NewsWrap: Gov. Moore's 2nd term bid, a state police surge into Baltimore, Trump's troop threat 24:09

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On today's NewsWrap, Tom surveys some of the week's top state and local developments with reporter Pamela Wood, who covers Maryland politics and government for the Baltimore Banner.By WYPR 881 FM Baltimore

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Laura Hobson Faure, "Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust" (Yale UP, 2025) 1:12:22

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The first account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France—and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. While 10,000 of them escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport, only some 500 found a new home in France. H…

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The Agora Institute's Dr. Lilliana Mason on political polarity, violence following shooting of Charlie Kirk 17:31

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With the killing of the charismatic conservative activist and podcast host, Charlie Kirk, America has once again been rocked by what could be another act of political violence.There is, as of Thursday morning, no suspect in custody, and no motive for the shooting is known.At the age of 18, Charlie Kirk founded “Turning Point Action,” a conservative…

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Baltimore is seeing hundreds of million in opioid settlement. What will the city do with the money? 30:59

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After a lengthy legal process, a massive amount of settlement money is flowing into Baltimore City to combat the opioid epidemic. Several opioid companies have settled with the city for more than half-a-billion dollars in a series of high-profile cases.How that money will be spent is the responsibility of Sara Whaley, the Executive Director of our …

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Dalia Ziada | Muslim Against Islamic Terror | Israel-Hamas War | Conversation with Shana Meyerson 1:25:26

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It's 9/11. Twenty-four years ago today, Al-Qaeda exploded the Twin Towers in the worst terrorist attack to ever occur on US soil. The world was stunned and would never be the same. Islamic terror became a prominent global threat but something remarkable happened. It was a slow creep, in response to a very carefully crafted propaganda campaign, but …

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As nation struggles with housing crisis, what's the right response in Maryland? 48:49

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Last week, Gov. Wes Moore issued an executive order entitled, “Housing Starts Here,” a four-pronged order Moore hopes will spur construction or renovation to address an estimated housing deficit of 96,000 units here in Maryland.Maryland is by no means alone in facing housing challenges. Up for Growth, a network of advocates that tracks housing data…

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Dr. Jeffrey Kahn on the ethics of a new organ transplant technique, 3-parent IVF, medical research cuts 49:16

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It’s Midday on Ethics.Dr. Jeffrey Kahn is the director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.In addition to directing the Berman Institute, Dr. Kahn teaches in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.Jeff Kahn joins us from time to time to talk about some of the thorny ethical issues faci…

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Christopher C. Gorham, "Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France" (Citadel Press, 2025) 48:18

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In 1940, with the Nazis sweeping through France, Henri Matisse found himself at a personal and artistic crossroads. His 42-year marriage had ended, he was gravely ill, and after decades at the forefront of modern art, he was beset by doubt. As scores of famous figures escaped the country, Matisse took refuge in Nice, with his companion, Lydia Delec…

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Sharaka | Shaping A New Middle East Together | Israel-Hamas War | Hosted by Shana Meyerson 1:25:07

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🎥 YOGA OF WAR PODCAST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEk7dn2pk4QXmLMnBCB80yQXIIcBDYsi0 🎥 Please join this LIVE conversation with the inspiring young leaders of Sharaka, working across religious beliefs from both Israel and across the Gulf to shape a new Middle East, built on dialogue, understanding, cooperation and friendship. Sharaka is t…

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BDC's Otis Rolley: a new course for Baltimore's economic future? 48:48

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Otis Rolley, the new president and CEO of the Baltimore Development Corporation, the city's economic development agency, discusses the challenges ahead to prosperity and growth.By WYPR 881 FM Baltimore

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Movies: Sizing up the fall festivals' bountiful harvest of new films, including Baltimore's New/Next Film Festival 36:09

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Some other upcoming local film festivals you should check out:The Columbia Maryland Film Festival opens Monday and runs until the following Sunday.And for the 12th year, the Baltimore International Black Film Festival takes place concurrently with the New/Next Film Festival, Oct. 2-6.____________________________________________________________Next …

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Rousuck's Review: A look ahead to the 2025-2026 theatre season 11:48

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Midday theater critic J Wynn Rousuck joins the show for weekly theater reviews. Today, a look ahead to the upcoming theatrical season in Maryland.Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre built a reputation for launching national tours. Rousuck takes a look at two of the new tours starting out here this season, Water for Elephants and The Great Gatsby.Plus, a…

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Soraya M. Deen | Muslim-Jewish Relations & Peace | Israel-Hamas War | Conversation with Shana Meyerson 1:27:20

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🎥 YOGA OF WAR PODCAST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEk7dn2pk4QXmLMnBCB80yQXIIcBDYsi0 🎥 With the raging war in the Middle East, peace may seem impossible, but there are glimmers of hope, shining spirits who work relentlessly to fulfill a grand vision of goodwill and compassion between ancient cousins to build a better, kinder world for th…

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An inside look into the search for Baltimore City school system's next CEO 24:51

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More about the community engagement events, and information about attending events, can be found through the city's school website. The meetings are intended to be an opportunity for the community to ask questions and learn more about the Board’s role and the CEO search process.The public can dial in at (855) 756 -7520, Ext. 125 847# on Monday, Sep…

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Radio Episode: Mayor Scott on fed troops, fighting crime, moving the Sisson St. dump 23:49

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More about the community engagement events, and information about attending events, can be found through the city's school website. The meetings are intended to be an opportunity for the community to ask questions and learn more about the Board’s role and the CEO search process.The public can dial in at (855) 756 -7520, Ext. 125 847# on Monday, Sep…

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Diana Souhami talks about her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians, out 2020 with Head of Zeus books. A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020. This is the extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, between the wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and…