Minneapolis and St. Paul Jewish lives, closely heard.
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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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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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Its music conversations connect artistic decisions to Jewish identity, community life, and the practical turns of a working career.
Lonnie Goldsmith builds Who The Folk?! around conversations about work, Jewish identity, and community life. Its contribution to the Music beat comes into focus with Peter Himmelman, whose live appearance moves between performance, personal reflection, and the choices behind a…
Lonnie Goldsmith asks past the bio, so you hear how Jewish identity shapes the work itself.
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A freshman gymnast's college season opens into a thoughtful conversation about Jewish identity, competition, and finding community.
Who The Folk?! centers on Minnesota freshman gymnast Lacey Saltzman's first college season, using it as a way into a broader conversation about Jewish belonging.
A wedding planner finds useful lessons in backup speeches, timing, and one memorable PowerPoint.
Wedding logistics become a study in care as Nicole Barron, the St. Paul-based wedding planner behind Bridekick, reflects on the planning, coordinating, and officiating work that has shaped how she handles the small failures that can complicate a celebration.
A Minneapolis film conversation where overlooked Jewish history meets the practical realities of making and submitting a short.
Michael Greenberg's short film The Combination gives Who The Folk?! Podcast a grounded local-history thread, centering on Minneapolis Jewish mob history and the choice to shape a less savory past into cinema.
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Interview with musician and technologist Lee Zukor about his band The Long Honeymoon, his songwriting evolution, and balancing music with tech work.
Professor Ron Krebs discusses teaching global political and military events in real time, his path to academia, and the upcoming school year on campus.
Lonnie Goldsmith interviews artist and art teacher Avigail Manneberg about her journey to becoming an artist, her father's 'I told you so' moment, and her upcoming performance creating art on stage at the Ramon Annual Gala.
Lonnie Goldsmith interviews Rachel Ganani, chief of staff at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, about her role, public interest law career, and BBYO's upcoming 100th anniversary.
Lonnie Goldsmith interviews Rabbi John Carrier about his journey from a Southern Baptist background to becoming a rabbi and educator.
Peter Himmelman discusses Suspended by No String at ModernWell with Lonnie Goldsmith, framing the book around faith, aliveness, and wonder.
Michael Greenberg talks with Lonnie Goldsmith about The Combination, a short film premiering at Trilon Cinema on November 9 and built from Minneapolis Jewish mob history he says he never heard growing up.
Sharon Rosenberg Scholl, new education and engagement manager at Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minnesota, describes her first two months after 12 years at Adath's Gan Shalom-style preschool program and 19 years at Temple Israel.
Leah Temkin, director of career services at Jewish and Family Children's Service of Minnesota, traces a 29-year path that started at Penn State and led to JVS in Minnesota.
Lacey Saltzman, a University of Minnesota freshman gymnast, says her first season has felt 'incredible' as she heads to NCAA regionals in Corvallis.
Nicole Barron, the Bridekick, plans, coordinates, and officiates weddings from St.
Rafa Kern discusses his journey from a culturally Jewish family in Brazil to becoming an educator and scholar of Jewish texts, integrating theater, language, and tradition to explore identity.
Alex Lubet discusses his new album honoring 19th century poet Amy Levy and his class at the Engage gathering.