Best Arielle R Podcasts (2025)

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80. Conjoined Twins and A Tribute to Rav Tendler zt"l - Feat. Rachel Rosensweig 38:26

13h ago38:26

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This is a very special episode for me, in which we discuss my Rebbe, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Dovid Tendler zt"l. We are joined by one of his granddaughters and a longtime colleague of mine, Rachel Rosensweig. She provides a synopsis of the Conjoined Twins ruling he was involved in and speaks more broadly about more personal aspects of Rav Tendler that m…

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Gina Leola Woolsey, "Fifteen Thousand Pieces" (Guernica Editions, 2023) 36:48

22h ago36:48

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Gina Leola Woolsey about her stunning biography, Fifteen Thousand Pieces (Guernica Editions, 2023). On Wednesday, September 2nd, 1998, an international flight carrying 229 souls crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. There were no survivors. By Friday, Sept 4th, thou…

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79. Should I Join the Army? A Responsum of Rav Zev Wolf Leiter - Feat. R' Yitzy Tanner 31:35

7d ago31:35

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In this episode we are joined by R' Yitzy Tanner who shares with us a responsum of the Beis Dovid (no. 71) about Kohanim - or any Jewish male - serving in their country's armed forces. We also learn about the author, Rav Zev Wolf Leiter zt"l, who was a local rabbi in Pittsburgh, but who earned an international reputation.…

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#145 | Commercial Space - Uncensored | Pierre Lionnet, ASD-Eurospace 1:07:35

8d ago1:07:35

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My guest this week is Pierre Lionnet, Director of Research at Eurospace, who has followed the global space sector for over 30 years. We discuss a range of topics including e.g. SpaceX, the launch sector in general, and national space policies. Pierre is one of my favorite people to follow on space as he usually provides very frank and thought out o…

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Stuart Ward, "Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:15:16

12d ago1:15:16

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How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Professor Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Secon…

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78. Education vs. Excommunication: The Rashba Combats a Communal Rupture - Feat. Rabbi Daniel Korobkin 31:43

14d ago31:43

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We are joined by Rabbi Daniel Korobkin, medieval scholar and the translator/annotator of the Feldheim edition of Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi’s Kuzari, who takes us into the story of a community in arms over whether and when to permit the study of secular knowledge. By looking at several responsa of the Rashba (1:415-417; Kisvei Yad no. 150) we get a glimps…

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#144 | Downmass Logistics | Sebastian Klaus, ATMOS Space Cargo 46:47

16d ago46:47

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My guest this week is Sebastian Klaus, Co-Founder & CEO of Atmos Space Cargo, who discusses his company’s mission to unlock downmass logistics with an innovative and reusable space capsule, paving the way for in-space manufacturing, defense applications, and other applications. 🕰️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 00:59 - Elevator Pitch 02:07 - Impo…

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Daniel MacFarlane, "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024) 55:51

17d ago55:51

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Join me for a fascinating conversation with one of today’s leading voices in environmental studies, Daniel Macfarlane, as we explore his new book The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024). Please see the description of the book below, then tune in to hear Dr. Macfarlane share the insights, research,…

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Patrick Condon, "Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis" (U British Columbia Press, 2024) 26:46

18d ago26:46

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How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was…

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J.D.M. Stewart, "Being Prime Minister" (Dundurn, 2018) 52:07

21d ago52:07

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Canada has had twenty-three prime ministers, all with views and policies that have differed as widely as the ages in which they lived. But what were they like as people? Being Prime Minister (Dundurn, 2018) takes you behind the scenes to tell the story of Canada’s leaders and the job they do as it has never been told before. From John A. Macdonald …

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William Kiser, "The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America" (Yale UP, 2025) 1:06:55

1M ago1:06:55

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In Cormac McCarthy's 1985 Western, Blood Meridian, the story follows infamous scalp hunter John Joel Glanton through the Mexican borderlands in the mid-19th century. How much of this story is myth, and how much history, asks Texas A&M-San Antonio history professor William Kiser. In his new book, The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and th…

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#143 | Mining the Moon | Glen Martin, XMC 59:17

1M ago59:17

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My guest this week is Glen Martin, Co-Founder & CEO of Extraterrestrial Mining Company (XMC), discusses his company’s bold mission to mine Helium-3 on the Moon and its potential to revolutionize energy and tech on Earth. 🕰️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:36 - Elevator Pitch 03:42 - Understanding Helium-3 and Its Applications 11:59 - Tech Aspec…

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Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025) 1:04:57

1M ago1:04:57

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Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Although agricultural inputs are a huge sector of the global economy, the lion's share of that market is controlled by a relatively small number of very large transnational corporations. The high degree of co…

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#142 | Commercial In-Space R&D and Manufacturing | Raphael Roettgen, E2MC Ventures 32:06

1M ago32:06

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This episode kicks off a new series on in-space R&D and manufacturing, exploring its potential (e.g. for sectors like pharma and semiconductors), its current status, and its challenges, among other topics. At the end of this episode, Raphael highlights the recent launch of the Orbital Edge accelerator to support startups in this emerging sector. Or…

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Daniel Coleman, "Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding Our Future Through the Wampum Covenant" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) 40:11

2M ago40:11

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Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding our Future Through the Wampum Covenant (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025) by Daniel Coleman is an essential read for Canadians looking to understand our nation’s complicated history. In this NBN episode host Hollay Ghadery talks to Daniel as well as Indigenous artist, writer, and historian Rick Hill about wampum, early settl…

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77. A Distillation of the (Pesach) Kashrus Industry - Feat. Rabbi Yehoshua Domosh 37:15

2M ago37:15

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Can I drink beer and Scotch on Pesach? Don't get your hopes up just yet, but Rabbi Yehoshua Domosh, a trained Kashrus professional, takes us through some fascinating halachic analysis (Responsa of Rivash, no. 255) about why distilled alcoholic beverages might not be so bad afterall - and also why an innocuous, unflavored seltzer may indeed have som…

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76. A Seder From Afar: The COVID Seder...Five Years Later - Feat. Rabbi Yehuda Halpert 43:42

2M ago43:42

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Rabbi Yehuda Halpert takes us 5 years back to the COVID Zoom Seder controversy, contrasts the different rabbinic responsa, and unpacks their significance for the post-pandemic era. Stay tuned for his upcoming book: Speaking to an Empty Shul: Timeless Lessons from Unprecedented Times (Mosaica Press, 2025).…

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Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border Politics 35:01

2M ago35:01

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In this episode of International Horizons, Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University and author of Border Games: The Politics of Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, 3rd edition (Cornell UP, 2022) and The Illicit Global Economy (Oxford UP, 2025), joins RBI Director John Torpey to unpack the myths and realities of bo…

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#141 | In-Orbit Servicing | Adel Haddoud, Infinite Orbits 47:45

2M ago47:45

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My guest this week is Adel Haddoud, Founder & CEO of Infinite Orbits, a French in-orbit servicing company. We discuss their technology, business model, and vision, as well as the broader market for satellite servicing and space sustainability. Enjoy! 🕰️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:04 - Elevator Pitch 03:30 - Origin Story 04:51 - Technologic…

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Gregor Craigie, "Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis" (Random House Canada, 2024) 33:03

2M ago33:03

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Canada is experiencing a housing shortage. Although house prices in major Canadian cities appeared to have topped out, new housing isn’t coming onto the market quickly enough. Higher interest rates have only tightened the pressure on buyers, and renters, too, as rising mortgage rates cost landlords more, which are passed along to tenants in rent in…

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Carolyn Whitzman, "Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis" (On Point Press, 2024) 27:41

2M ago27:41

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Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Renters fear eviction, homeowners feel trapped, and both are vulnerable to becoming homeless with a single stroke of misfortune. Unaffordable housing in Canada is tearing communities apart as long-time residents seek affordable housing elsewhere and businesses shutter because they cannot find st…

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75. Kehuna for Sale? The Problematic Purchase of a Priestly Pedigree - Feat. Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky 37:53

3M ago37:53

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Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky shares with us a whimsical, yet real, case adjudicated by the Beis Yitzchak (E.H. 1:23) about a man who "purchased" for himself the Kohen status...which sounded good at first, until it had serious ramifications for his marriage. We delve into the principles of halacha which govern speech, deed and much more to understand how t…

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#140 | Mining Asteroids | Daynan Crull, Karman+ 49:05

3M ago49:05

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Asteroid mining is making a comeback. It may sound futuristic, but some startups are betting on a viable and economic path to making it a reality and investors are taking notice. One of those companies is Karman+, and this week, I’m joined by its Co-Founder, Daynan Crull. Enjoy! 🕰️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:13 - Elevator Pitch 04:18 - Vis…

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Jamie Jelinski, "Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024) 54:36

3M ago54:36

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In 1891 J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating permanent images on the skin of paying clients. From this early example of tattooing as work, in Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024) Dr. Jami…

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3/6/2025: Episode 107 - Bronx 2024 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends featuring Jason M. Gold and Daniel Mahfar 10:58

3M ago10:58

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In this episode of Coffee & Cap Rates, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, explores key trends in the Bronx commercial real estate market with Senior Director Jason Gold and Director Daniel Mahfar. According to Ariel’s Bronx 2024 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends report, investment sales in the borough declined 33%…

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74. Until I'm Six Feet Under? A Texas Burial Brouhaha - Feat. Rabbi Barry Gelman 28:01

3M ago28:01

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In this episode, Rabbi Barry Gelman shares with us a personal case he dealt with regarding a family who was adamant about reburying their deceased six feet under. Rabbi Gelman shares with us the responsum he received from Eretz Hemdah (B'Mareh HaBazak 7:81) and how it made its way into a Texas courtroom. This is a fascinating discussion that incorp…

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Is The Schecter Reaper Six Guitar The BEST Tone Machine? 17:19

3M ago17:19

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In this episode, I dive into the Schecter Reaper-6 in Satin Sky Burst. A sleek, modern guitar that blends killer looks with serious playability. I break down its ultra-thin neck, swamp ash body, and versatile pickups, plus what makes it stand out in its price range. Is it the ultimate shredder’s guitar, or is it much more versatile than that? Tune …

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3/3/2025: Episode 106 - Brooklyn 2024 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends featuring Sean R. Kelly and Stephen Vorvolakos 12:11

3M ago12:11

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In this podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, discusses Ariel’s Brooklyn 2024 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends report with Brooklyn experts Partner Sean R. Kelly, Esq., and Director Stephen Vorvolakos. Overall, the dollar volume of investment sales in Brooklyn rose to $7.15 billion in 2024, a 37% increase c…

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2/27/2025: Episode 105 - Manhattan 2024 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends featuring Michael A. Tortorici, Chris Brodhead, and Howard Raber 13:25

3M ago13:25

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In this podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, interviews Ariel’s Manhattan experts Michael Tortorici, Founding Partner; Chris Brodhead, Senior Director, and Howard Raber, Director, about the Manhattan market in 2024. According to Ariel Property Advisors’ Manhattan 2024 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends repor…

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2/24/2025: Episode 104 - 2024 Multifamily Year in Review featuring Victor Sozio & Matt Swerdlow 14:57

3M ago14:57

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Join Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, as he delves into Ariel’s 2024 Multifamily Research Report with Founding Partner Victor Sozio and Senior Director of Capital Services Matt Swerdlow. In 2024, New York City’s multifamily market saw $8.91 billion in sales across 1,107 transactions, marking year-over-year increases …

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2/21/2025: Episode 103 - Coffee & Cap Rates February 2025 Panel Discussion featuring Ralph Bumbaca, Eli S. Weiss, Tell Metzger, and Brendan McBride 53:11

3M ago53:11

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This podcast is a recording of the panel Ralph Bumbaca, Regional President – Metro New York for TD Bank, moderated at Ariel's February 5th Coffee & Cap Rates event hosted by TD Bank. The panel of affordable housing experts Eli S. Weiss, Principal of Joy Construction; Tell Metzger, SVP of Equity Investments at Community Preservation Corporation; and…

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2/18/2025: Episode 102 - Coffee & Cap Rates February 2025 Market Presentation: Investment Trends in NYC CRE's Market 15:42

3M ago15:42

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This podcast is a recording of the overview of the New York City investment sales market and key insights from Ariel Property Advisor’s newly released end-of-year research reports that Shimon Shkury, Ariel’s President and Founder, presented at the firm’s February 5th Coffee & Cap Rates event hosted by TD Bank. Over 200 NYC real estate professionals…

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#139 | Space to Grow | Matthew Weinzierl & Brendan Rosseau 56:29

3M ago56:29

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Space to Grow is a new book on the space economy. Its authors, Matt Weinzierl, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Brendan Rosseau, also formerly of Harvard and now in strategy at Blue Origin, are my guests this week. Enjoy! Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier (Harvard Business Publishing, 2025) https://www.amazon.com/Space…

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Canada and Eastern Europe, 1945–1991: Meeting in the Middle 33:01

4M ago33:01

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In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sat down with Andrea Chandler to talk about her new book with CEU Press, Canada and Eastern Europe, 1945–1991: Meeting in the Middle. In the podcast we talked about why the relations between Canada and the countries of the Eastern bloc have so far been underreseached, about the large Central and East…

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#138 | European Micro-Launch | Stanislas Maximin, Latitude 1:03:35

4M ago1:03:35

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My guest this week is Stan Maximin, Founder & Executive Chairman of Latitude, a French micro-launch company. We discuss Latitude's rocket, target customers, and vision, as well as the wider launch market in Europe and globally. Enjoy! 🕰️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:28 - Elevator Pitch 02:57 - Starting a Launch Company 11:20 - The Product 16:44 - C…

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73. "Avram", Academia, and Acceptance - Feat. Zachary Ottenstein 39:53

4M ago39:53

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Today, Zachary Ottenstein join us as we look at the monumentalMinchas Yitzchak of Dayan Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss and explore a lesser known responsum(4:30) about secular text books which has broader implications for recent trends in the Jewish world.

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Robert Dayton, "Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam" (Feral House, 2024) 1:19:07

4M ago1:19:07

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Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam (Feral House, 2025) uncovers a forgotten yet fascinating chapter on glam rock music and culture...from Canada. Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary artist Robert Dayton taps his Canadian roots to reveal mind-blowing stories of musicians fighting to be heard. It's a universal story of determined creato…

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Gloria Blizzard, "Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas" (Dundurn Press, 2025) 29:42

4M ago29:42

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Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas (Dundurn Press, 2025) by Gloria Blizzard is a diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion. In this powerful and deeply personal essay collection, Gloria Blizzard, in an international diasporic quest, moves up and down an urban subway line; between Canada and Trinidad; to and from a hospita…

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Adam Chapnick, "Canada First, Not Canada Alone: A History of Canadian Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:01:24

4M ago1:01:24

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The definitive history of Canadian foreign policy since the 1930s, Canada First, Not Canada Alone: A History of Canadian Foreign Policy (Oxford UP, 2024) examines how successive prime ministers have promoted Canada's national interests in a world that has grown increasingly complex and interconnected. Eleven case studies focus on environmental refo…

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Joel Z. Garrod, "Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022" (U Toronto Press, 2025) 57:34

4M ago57:34

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In this engaging interview, young scholar Dr, Joel Z. Garrod explains his book's main argument, with a personal touch. In Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022 (U Toronto Press, 2025), Garrod presents a historical analysis of the Royal Bank of Canada, illustrating how Canadian capitalism and the Canadian banking…

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72. Clarifying a Contested Conversion - Feat. Rabbi Michoel Zylberman 28:08

4M ago28:08

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Editor's Note: This episode is dedicated in memory of Joy Rothke (Shayna Fradel bas Reb Velvel) a"h. I want to thank Ben Rothke for his friendship and ideas that have helped me throughout this project. May our learning be a zechus for his sister's neshama and may Hashem give him and his entire family much nechama. - Moshe Kurtz --- In this episode,…

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1/21/2025: Episode 101 - Challenges Facing the Rent Stabilized Market featuring Kenny Burgos & Matt Engel 20:53

4M ago20:53

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In his latest podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, explored the challenges facing owners of rent stabilized buildings with guests Kenny Burgos, CEO of New York Apartment Association, a landlord group created by the merger of the Rent Stabilization Association (RSA) and Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP…

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#137 | Self-Assembling Space Habitats | Ariel Ekblaw, Aurelia Institute & Foundry 45:21

4M ago45:21

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Ariel Ekblaw is an MIT aero-astro engineer who founded the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative, and developed a new technique to build large-scale space structures. She now runs the Aurelia Institute, a non-for-profit dedicated to building humanity’s future in space and the Aurelia Foundry, a space-focused VC fund. We talk about all of these…

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Kathleen Lippa, "Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada's North" (Dundurn, 2025) 1:01:27

4M ago1:01:27

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After years of research, journalist Kathleen Lippa has written about the shocking crimes of a trusted teacher who wrought lasting damage on Inuit communities: Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada’s North (Dundurn Press, February 2025). In the 1970s, a young schoolteacher from British Columbia was becoming the darli…

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Melanie Dennis Unrau, "The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024) 52:27

4M ago52:27

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Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and willful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles these assumptions, revealing the fear, confusion, betrayal, and indignation hidden beneath tough personas. The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Work…

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Loleen Berdahl et al., "For the Public Good: Reimagining Arts Graduate Programs in Canadian Universities" (U Alberta, 2024) 43:09

4M ago43:09

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Arts graduate education is uniquely positioned to deliver many of the public good needs of contemporary Canada. For the Public Good: Reimagining Arts Graduate Programs in Canadian Universities (U Alberta, 2024) argues, however, that graduate programs must fundamentally change if they are to achieve this potential. Drawing on deep experience and res…

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Mark Celinscak, "Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp" (U Toronto Press, 2015) 1:17:29

4M ago1:17:29

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The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp (U Toronto Press, 2015) documents what they saw and how they came to terms with thos…

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Mariam Pirbhai, "Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2023) 44:08

4M ago44:08

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In Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak and Wynn, 2023), author Mariam Pirbhai looks carefully at the pocket of land she has called home in Southern Ontario for the past seventeen years, which she notes is a milestone for her, and asks how long it takes to be rooted to a place? And what does that truly mean? Seeing t…

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71. The Internet's Rabbi: Rav Yuval Cherlow - Feat. Rabbi Roy Feldman 35:57

4M ago35:57

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Join our guest Rabbi Roy Feldman as he explores the remarkable accomplishments of Rav Yuval Cherlow, a pioneering Israeli rabbi who was on the vanguard of those who used the internet to answer the halachic questions posed by society. Rabbi Feldman presents us with one of his sefarim, ReShu"t HaTzibbur (pp. 173-176), to better understand his distinc…

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#136: Space Piracy | Hugh Taylor & Marc Feldman 44:29

4M ago44:29

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Space Piracy is a new book about the prospect of organized crime in the space sector, anything ranging from hacking for ransom payments all the way to, some time in the future, actual piracy. The book’s co-authors, Marc Feldman and Hugh Taylor are my guests Enjoy! 🕰️ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction01:28 Meet the Authors: Mark Feldman and Hugh Taylor…

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