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When Tamir Levy’s brother asked him whether he planned to circumcise his soon-to-be-born son, the answer was obvious. After all, roughly 99% of Jew...
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 32:57
Faith - Shanna Marie Wallace is a Spiritual Interfaith Minister, who inspires in her classes, workshops, and guest speaking appearances. Her passio...
- Added: Mar 22, 2022
- Length: 03:06
Faith - Gerald Alston is an American R&B singer, and the lead singer with The Manhattans. Between 1988 and 1995, he left the group to record five a...
- Added: Mar 16, 2022
- Length: 02:50
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 3
The common tradition when visiting the holy Western Wall in Jerusalem is to write a small note to God and push it between the cracks of the sacred ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 18:17
I was lost in gangs back in Guatemala. We were beating people, robbing them. But after I met God, everything changed. I found a new path.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 23, 2018
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.
- Added: Aug 16, 2017
- Length: 27:16
How a more personal approach to ending homelessness may also be more effective.
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 03:32
There has been a Jewish community in Natchez, Mississippi for 175 years—and Robin Amer’s family has been part of it for 160 of them. But now the nu...
Bought by WBHM
- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 35:01
- Purchases: 1
Country music legend Willie Nelson says that when he was a child, he heard a heavenly tune that's been under his skin ever since.
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 2
Mishy Harman shares the zany matchmaking adventures of his Orthodox downstairs neighbor, which he had no chance but to overhear because all her dat...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 09:27
- Purchases: 2
Michael and Leah have been together for 37 years, living in a counter-cultural religious community that follows the teachings of “The Singing Rabbi...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 06:21
Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 11:58
For teenage girls in Lewiston's Somali community, dress is a form of self-expression--but how do you dress both modest and modern? Sahro Hassan, a ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:35
- Purchases: 5
Producer Erica Hellerstein takes us on a journey to identity through an ancient medicinal practice known as “curanderismo”.
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 29:00
This week, four stories of people who don’t quite belong in the world where they live, who take matters into their own hands to create belonging.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Berlin, Germany - 1972. An American teenager tries to come to terms with what she sees and what she feels on both sides of the Wall while secretly ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 2
Professor Steven Weinberg is a Nobel laureate in physics and a theoretical physicist who is an outspoken thinker on topics ranging from nuclear wea...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 01:20:04
Hear stories of how some same-sex couples created marriage traditions in the absence of marriage equality in Washington state prior to November 2012.
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 14:16
Ever been to an Encuentro? You’ve just moved to rural Mexico with your husband and new baby. What would you do to fit in?
- Added: Sep 07, 2013
- Length: 04:07
Theresa Novak Chabot challenges a centuries-old tradition in the Catholic Church.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
Theresa Novak Chabot challenges a centuries-old tradition in the Catholic church.
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 06:16
Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a birth chart by an interested skeptic. Hidden from him for years, he attempts to reconcil...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 10:04
One amazing woman, Anila Ali, is transforming the stereotypes of Muslims in America through her work as a teacher, journalist, author, and activist...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 08:04
Ethnically Parsi, Diana grew up in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and went to boarding school there. She talks about how she and her family have ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 03:09
