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  Ep 712: Influential Origins with Alan Mindel and guest Kim Keiserman P3 on hmTv 08.10.2026 1ó 5p

  Send us Fan Mail Influential Origins | Ep. 712: Kim Keiserman, Leadership and Public Service, Part 3 | HMTC What does responsible leadership look like when affordability, public safety, antisemitism, and community trust all demand attention? In Part 3 of Influential Origins, host Alan Mindel speaks with New York State Assembly candidate Kim Keiserman about challenges facing Long Island’s North Shore. They examine housing, utility and health care costs, local planning, infrastructure, water pr...
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  Ep 711 Influential Origins with Alan Mindel and guest Kim Keiserman P2 on hmTv 08.10.2026 32p

  Send us Fan Mail Influential Origins | Ep. 711: Kim Keiserman, Teaching History After 9/11, Part 2 | HMTC Kim Keiserman had lived in Port Washington for only two months when September 11 changed her new community forever. In Part 2 of Influential Origins, host Alan Mindel continues his conversation with Kim about moving from the South to New York, embracing cultural and religious diversity, and finding a home in Port Washington’s vibrant civic life. Kim recalls starting a new teaching positio...
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  Ep 710: Influential Origins with Alan Mindel and guest Kim Keiserman P1 on hmTv 08.10.2026 28p

  Send us Fan Mail Influential Origins | Ep. 710: Kim Keiserman, Education and Civic Responsibility, Part 1 | HMTC Moving between ten addresses and eight schools before graduation taught Kim Keiserman how deeply community, education, and belonging shape a young person’s life. On Influential Origins, host Alan Mindel welcomes educator and community leader Kim Keiserman for Part 1 of a conversation about the experiences that shaped her commitment to public education and civic responsibility. Kim ...
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  Ep 709 The UN, Society, and Antisemitism with Susanne Seperson and guest Ofir Dayan on hmTv 07.10.2026 40p

  Send us Fan Mail The UN, Society, and Antisemitism | Ep. 709: Ofir Dayan, Reclaiming the Narrative | HMTC Why did Israel shift in the Western imagination from vulnerable underdog to alleged oppressor? On The UN, Society, and Antisemitism, host Dr. Susanne Seperson speaks with Israeli researcher and author Ofir Dayan about her new book, Intifada Globalized: Why Young Westerners Are Turning Away from Israel. Drawing on her service in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, five years at Columbia Universit...
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  Ep 708: It's All About The Children with Carin Bail & Sami Steigman and guest Sheikh Musa Drammeh P2 on hmTv 07.10.2026 27p

  Send us Fan Mail It's All About the Children | Ep. 708: Sheikh Musa Drammeh, Building Bridges, Part 2 | HMTC In Part 2, Sheikh Musa Drammeh challenges extremist interpretations of Islam and explains why he believes the Quran affirms religious freedom, shared Abrahamic traditions, and the Jewish connection to the Holy Land. Carin Bail and Sami Steigmann continue their conversation with the educator and interfaith leader, tracing the path from the Muslim school he and his wife opened in the Bro...
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  Ep 707: It's All About The Children with Carin Bail & Sami Steigman and guest Sheikh Musa Drammeh P1 on hmTv 07.10.2026 25p

  Send us Fan Mail How can we teach children to respect one another, take responsibility, and challenge hatred? It begins with the example we set and the conversations we are willing to have. In Part 1 of this conversation, hosts Carin Bail and Holocaust survivor Sami Steigman welcome educator, imam, and community organizer Sheikh Musa Drammeh. Born in The Gambia and raised in Senegal, Sheikh Musa shares his journey to New York in 1986 and the commitment to service that has shaped his life. H...
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  Ep 706 The UN Society and Antisemitism with Susanne Seperson and guest Itay Ken-Tor on hmTv 03.10.2026 35p

  Send us Fan Mail The UN, Society and Antisemitism | Ep. 706: Itay Ken-Tor, Preserving October 7 Testimony | HMTC DESCRIPTION Two days after the October 7, 2023 attacks, filmmaker Itay Ken-Tor began helping survivors preserve their firsthand accounts. The result is Edut 710, an archive containing more than 2,100 filmed testimonies created with trauma-informed listening, ethical safeguards, and future generations in mind. On The UN, Society and Antisemitism, host Dr. Susanne Seperson speaks wit...
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  Ep 705: Kibitz with Keren with Doron Keren and guest Sadie Herz on hmTv 18.09.2026 27p

  Send us Fan Mail Kibitz with Keren | Ep. 705: Sadie Herz, A Witness to a Witness | HMTC Sadie Herz entered UJA’s Witness Project expecting to learn from a Holocaust survivor. After hearing Christine Keren’s testimony, she realized that learning was not enough. She had become responsible for carrying the story forward. On Kibitz with Keren, host Doron Keren speaks with the high school senior who was paired with his mother through the program. Sadie explains why survivor testimony creates bot...
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  Ep 704: Ordinary Heroes with Bernie Furshpan and guest Julie Budd on hmTv 16.09.2026 43p

  Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 704: Julie Budd, From Brooklyn to Sinatra and Beyond | HMTC At 15, Julie Budd walked into a Las Vegas rehearsal and discovered that the person blowing kisses from the wings was Frank Sinatra. He had personally chosen her to open his show and later asked her to keep the American Songbook alive. On Ordinary Heroes, host Bernie Furshpan welcomes his friend for a conversation spanning her Brooklyn childhood, Jewish upbringing, early television career, legend...
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  Ep 703: The Dana Download with Dana Arschin and guest Daniella Rabbani on hmTv 16.09.2026 26p

  Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 703: Daniella Rabbani, Carrying Yiddish Forward | HMTC Yiddish first surrounded Daniella Rabbani as the adults’ language, spoken by her Holocaust survivor grandparents but not passed directly to her. Years later, music helped her reclaim it. On The Dana Download, host Dana Arschin Kraslow speaks with the actor and singer about her Ashkenazi and Sephardic roots, learning Yiddish as an adult, and carrying its humor, history, and emotional depth to new au...
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  Ep 702: The Dana Download with Dana Arschin and guest Lynne Goldberg on hmTv 16.09.2026 25p

  Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 702: Lynne Goldberg - Catching Your Breath | HMTC After two cancer diagnoses, the end of a 20-year marriage, her daughter leaving for college, and a major career change, Lynne Goldberg faced a question: What comes next? On The Dana Download, host Dana Arschin Kraslow speaks with the author of Catching Your Breath, meditation teacher, speaker, and co-founder of the Breethe app about grief, reinvention, inherited trauma, and conscious choice. Lynne also ...
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  Ep 701: Ordinary Heroes with Bernie Furshpan and guest Dr Greg Weiner on hmTv 09.09.2026 27p

  Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 701: Dr. Greg Weiner - First Jewish President of a Catholic University | HMTC Growing up in the only Jewish family in a small Texas town taught Dr. Greg Weiner that a strong identity can make genuine friendship across differences possible. Today, as the first Jewish president of a Catholic university, he brings that lesson to higher education. In Episode 700 of Ordinary Heroes, host Bernie Furshpan speaks with the Assumption University president about ...
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  Ep 700: Ordinary Heroes with Bernie Furshpan and guest Dena Schusterman on hmTv 08.09.2026 28p

  Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 700: Dena Schusterman - The Stories We Carry | HMTC A little girl once asked her father to carry her on a long walk to synagogue. He answered, “I’ll carry you with my stories.” For Dena Schusterman, that childhood memory reveals how family stories give us strength, shape identity, and sometimes need to be reexamined. On Ordinary Heroes, host Bernie Furshpan speaks with the author of Stories Carry: We All Carry Them. Some Even Carry Us. about faith, famil...
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  Ep 699: Putting the Brakes on Bullying with Samantha Sosnik and guest David Ben-Arie on hmTv 06.09.2026 33p

  Send us Fan Mail Putting the Brakes on Bullying | Ep. 699: David Ben-Arie - Naming the Harm, Part 2 | HMTC David Ben-Arie spent years minimizing the bullying and antisemitism he experienced as a child. If others had endured worse, he reasoned, perhaps what happened to him did not count. Only later did he recognize that dismissing the harm delayed his ability to heal. In Part 2 of Putting the Brakes on Bullying, host Samantha Sosnik welcomes David back for a candid discussion about childhood h...
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  Ep 698 Unmasked. Unfiltered. Unapologetic. with Bali Lerner and guests Nicole LaMorte & Denise Paredes on hmTv 04.09.2026 41p

  Send us Fan Mail Unmasked. Unfiltered. Unapologetic. | Ep. 698: Remembering Mark and September 11 | HMTC Mark had been promoted to broker six days before September 11, 2001. A meeting on the 92nd floor of the North Tower placed him where he normally would not have been, while his wife, Nicole LaMorte, began the morning believing he was safely at work blocks away. On Unmasked. Unfiltered. Unapologetic., host Bali Lerner speaks with Nicole and her sister, Denise Paredes, about the hours of unce...
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  Ep 697: The Dana Download with Dana Arschin and guest Marsha Silverman on hmTv 04.09.2026 27p

  Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 697: Marsha Silverman - A 9/11 Survivor’s Story | HMTC Marsha Silverman stepped off the subway beneath the World Trade Center just as the first plane struck. Minutes later, standing outside, she heard the second plane overhead and understood that the attack was intentional. Her instinct was simple: get away. On The Dana Download, host Dana Arschin Kraslow speaks with her friend, a former Glen Cove City Councilwoman and longtime finance professional, ab...
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  Ep 696: Ordinary Heroes with Bernie Furshpan and guest Bonnie Aliazzo on hmTv 03.09.2026 30p

  Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 696: Bonnie Aliazzo - One Believer Can Change the World | HMTC A childhood lesson in the Golden Rule became a lifelong commitment to fairness, peace, and protecting children. Bonnie Aliazzo carried that lesson from the tennis court and courtroom into a creative movement built around one belief: one person can change the world. On Ordinary Heroes, host Bernie Furshpan speaks with the retired New York State attorney about the prejudice she witnessed, her...
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  Ep 695: Raised by Survivors with Bernie Furshpan and guest Noah Ehrlich on hmTv 02.09.2026 29p

  Send us Fan Mail Raised by Survivors | Ep. 695: Noah Ehrlich - Witnessing Jewish Life in Poland | HMTC A week in Poland left Bernie Furshpan and Noah Ehrlich changed. Traveling with leaders from Jewish organizations, they encountered centuries of Jewish life, sites of unimaginable destruction, and communities working to rebuild connection and memory. On Raised by Survivors, Noah, Director of Development at USC Shoah Foundation, reflects on visits to Warsaw, Kraków, Auschwitz, Łódź, the POLIN ...
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  Ep 694: Ordinary Heroes with Bernie Furshpan and guest John Tantillo on hmTv 02.09.2026 30p

  Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 694: John Tantillo - Can Unity Be Marketed? | HMTC Marketing can sell a product, build a movement, or persuade people to fear their neighbors. Can those same tools be used to promote unity, empathy, and shared purpose? On Ordinary Heroes, Bernie Furshpan speaks with Dr. John Tantillo, branding expert, author, educator, and longtime commentator, about the emotional power of brands. John explains his NAV system of noun, adjective, and verb, and how a clear...
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  Ep 693: Raised by Survivors with Bernie Furshpan and guests Zena Frey & Susan McClelland on hmTv 02.09.2026 35p

  Send us Fan Mail Raised by Survivors | Ep. 693: Zena Frey & Susan McClelland - The Story of Honor | HMTC At twelve years old, Leizer “Leon” Buchwald was forced to become a man. For three years, he survived the Holocaust by hiding in caves, forests, and the attic of a Ukrainian Catholic family that refused to surrender its humanity. On Raised by Survivors, Bernie Furshpan speaks with Leon’s daughter, Zena Buchwald Frey, and author Susan McClelland about Honor, the award-winning young adult...