Who The Folk?! Podcast

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Minneapolis and St. Paul Jewish lives, closely heard.

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Who The Folk?! profiles Jewish voices around Minneapolis and St. Paul through patient, practical conversations. Episodes move easily from career counseling and campus athletics to weddings, Jewish text, music, politics, storytelling, and art.

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About Who The Folk?! Podcast

Who The Folk?! is a Minneapolis and St. Paul Jewish interview show built around people, not hot takes. Its range is wide, but its center is consistent: how Jewish identity, community work, and personal history show up in ordinary and highly specific lives. Leah Temkin brings career counseling down to the lonely mechanics of online job searches and the deeper question of how people define themselves through work. Lacey Saltzman talks about gymnastics, Jewish life on campus, and the meaning of competing with other Jewish athletes. Nicole Barron turns wedding planning into a conversation about preparation, family expectations, speeches, food memory, and ritual. Hafa Kern’s episode points toward Jewish texts, theater, language, tradition, and the layered work of identity. Alex Lubet connects music across cultures while discussing an album honoring Amy Levy. Ron Krebs brings global political and military events into the classroom setting, with attention to what it means to teach history while it is still unfolding. A live evening with Peter Himmelman adds performance, memory, spirituality, humor, and loss. Abigail Manenberg’s studio conversation begins with pronunciation and becomes a careful opening into art and identity. The show’s interviews are patient. They are not glossy. The best exchanges let guests speak at length, then return to a simple follow-up that asks what the detail really means. Community announcements and Jewfolk events are part of the texture, but the heart is the conversation after the introduction. The result is a grounded portrait of Jewish cultural life in and around Minneapolis and St. Paul, told through work, family, art, learning, athletics, and public responsibility.

Made for: Best for listeners interested in contemporary Jewish community life, especially around Minneapolis and St. Paul. It suits people who like thoughtful interviews about work, identity, art, learning, sports, and public life.

What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its local specificity and its practical curiosity. Rather than treating Jewish identity as an abstract theme, it finds it in careers, classrooms, weddings, gyms, studios, songs, and community events.

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This is the Podcast home of TC Jewfolk's Who The Folk?! Podcast. Hear from interesting Members of the Tribe from all over the Minneapolis and St. Paul area.

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Lonnie Goldsmith asks past the bio, so you hear how Jewish identity shapes the work itself.

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to hear a college gymnast connect elite competition with Jewish campus life
the wedding-planner logic behind speeches that do not implode at the reception

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Minneapolis and St. Paul Jewish communitycareer and vocationJewish identity and belongingarts and storytellingJewish learning and traditioncampus and athleticsfamily rituals and weddingspublic affairs and education

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Simon Glaser

Lacie Saltzmann

Nicole Baron

Rafa Kern

Alex Lubet

Sarajane Landun

Dave Snyder

Chef David Fhima

David Snyder

Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies

Adam Bohanan

Steven Mayer

Matt Goldman

Jesse Jacobs

Rav Michaela Brown

Jack Shink

Johanna Hyman

Aaron Black

Molly Rosenblatt

Susie Kaufman

Lawrence Badzin

Eric Mandel

Stephanie Iskhakov

Ryan London Levin

Miles Lerner

Marissa Bader

Alyssa Golob

Sami Saltzman Savin

Sarah Routman

Jared Kaufman

Melissa Rappaport Schifman and Jim Schifman

Geoff Sudit

Janessa Prawer

Katie Kline

Jon Geffen

Adam Garen

Leah Temkin

Cole Hanson

Andrew Rosendorf

Freddie Weisberg and Char Cohodes

Susan Geller

Henry Karpovas Lisak

Sara Lynn Newberger

Howard Sinker

Alyssa Engelson

Andi Murez

Stephanie Chauss

Adam Kersch

Emily Boskoff

Barbara Brooks

Rabbi Julie Schwarzwald

Rabbi Jill Avrin

Rabbi Eva Cohen

Elliot Ginsburg

Rabbi Sammy and Cantor Heather Seid

Lee Zukor

2024 Minnesota Bagel Showdown

Abby Gore

Rabbi Samantha Thal

Hunter Wengersky

Stacey Dinner-Levin

Frank Hornstein

Haviv Rettig Gur

Mia Nosanow

Andrew Miller

Jacob Rapport

Yedidya Yasu

Naomi Breazeale and Nina Afremov

Lily Smith

Julie Dean

Daniel Rubinyi

Iola Kostrzewski

Sharyn Jackson