JCM² Podcast - SoundSage

This week we have celebrated Rosh Hashanah in lockdown for the second year. One of the most enterprising projects was the Project High Holiday in which the rabbis and rebbetzins joined in providing sustenance for the mind body and spirit across the shules.

Project Shofar was an initiative of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria to bring the sound of the shofar to everyone.

This week we bring you the Rosh Hashanah prayers with hazanut from the rabbis and chazanim of the various shules in Melbourne. It was the initiative of Rabbi Moshe Kahn, director of Chabad Youth and DaMinyan, and put together with endless energy and sleepless nights by Zalmy Glazner, president of Hamayan.

All that remains is to wish everyone a gmar hatima tova and well over the fast.

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This week as we hear the horrifying news from Kabul, and the talks between Biden and Bennet, when the camera caught Biden nodding off, Here in Australia, NSW covid is soaring and we are in lockdown for another week. As we contemplate Rosh Hashanah, another one in lockdown, the shuls are preparing.

Shofar blowing will be available anywhere, it seems. We are in the middle of Selichot, the penitential prayers we say before Rosh Hashanah. At this time, we are making a dwelling place for G-d in this world. And, when you think about it while being at home and davening from there, it’s the optimal closeness to Hashem so states the Baal Shem Tov. While we daven in shul to proclaim Hashem’s glory, Hashem forgoes this so that we will have the maximum glory in our homes.

Our interview this week is Dr Michael Carr-Greg adolescent psychologist. He gave a talk on mental health and covid especially in regard to young people. We are all aware of the impact on mental health on everyone, especially young people. What are the signs? When should you seek help? Where to go?

As we enter the high holyday period, The Baum Interviews will be in recess until September 30. There will be mostly music and repeat episodes.

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As the Paralympics have just begun, we celebrate five ex-soldiers from the ZDVO Israel Army Veterans Association.

Evie Smith, the executive director of ZDVO Australia, speaks on the work of this incredible organisation with more than 50,000 injured soldiers.

Also the formidable odds a competitor such as Achlya Klein has had to overcome. He was blinded during a tunnel explosion. Nevertheless, he went back to the army and continued his officers training. He is competing in rowing.

Carolyn Rubenstein from Sydney tells her story of being a bus terror victim in Jerusalem in 1993 and her miraculous escape and how the experience affected her whole life.

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As the Olympics finishes and we wait for the para-Olympics, we feature next week the ZDVO the Israeli Army Veterans Assoc: A recent panel discussion with Olympians, fascinating and inspiring.

This week we feature Professor Rebecca Margolis on Shtisel and the ultra-Orthodox genre which was at the recent Limmud Oz Festival in Sydney.

As we approach our third Shabbat in lockdown, we hope we will all be together in shule for Rosh Hashanah and we take the opportunity to reflect on our behaviour and improve in some small way at this time when we are closer to Hashem than at any time in the calendar. The king is in the field and he is waiting for our heartfelt prayers. Tshuva, tefilla, tzedakah.

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Interviews with people on the beach at St Kilda: Joycie with her son Maxie talking about his love of science. Alongside was Barina, 8. They played together and it was so refreshing to see it. Roy from New Zealand and his wife from India. Both couples were bio-racial. Jamaica and Australia and New Zealand and India. We also discussed the synagogue in Kochin.

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The Baum Interviews Podcast - 2021-7-8

intro to Naudoc week and interview with Tommy Fieness

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David Zeev a compilation of heartwarming stories from Israel published in The Jerusalem Post and the Jerusalem Report.

Many inspiring tales of the overflowing warmth and kindness if ordinary folk in Israel, especially bus drivers. Many of the stories take place in the bus where he found himself during the days of lockdown.

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In a week in which Australia suddenly has Barnaby Joyce as its new Deputy Prime Minister, which was totally unexpected, we had our AGM at Spiritgrow on Sunday. It was an eventful year and in the past few months we relocated and have almost completed the state-of-the-art (three) studios.

In this recording, chair of J-AIR Sean Meltzer gives his report on the current situation, the bipartisan support of parliamentarians, the success of grants ($60,000) contributed in various grants towards the new studios.

Intro to the week including 17 Tammuz.

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The Baum Interviews Podcast - 2021-6-17

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This week will go down as the week Israel finally formed a government yet to be ratified by the Knesset after 12 years of Likud and Benyamin Netanyahu. Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid are to be prime minister and alternate PM with two-year terms.

It’s reconciliation week this week and we have an interview with Halina Leitch on her recent trip to Cairns and her meeting with Tommy Fieness, Indigenous activist community worker and personal trainer.

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The Baum Interviews Podcast - 2021-6-3

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The Israel Rally

David Southwick’s passionate speech, the Leader of the Opposition and Katie Allen, who spoke at the rally.

And, the book launch of Isi Leibler’s biography by Professor Suzanne Rutland, including interviews with Isi himself in Israel just a month before he died and with veteran broadcaster Ehud Yaari.

A reply by Suzanne Rutland herself historian and emeritus professor at Sydney University, who spent 20 years researching material for this mighty tome, aided by Isi’s meticulous record keeping in his archives.

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The Baum Interviews Podcast - 2021-5-27

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An Israeli mother and her son.

Federal MPs Josh Burns and Mark Dreyfus.

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Shavuot edition

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This week features Yom Yerushalayim at Caulfield Synagogue with keynote speaker Jonathan Pollard in a recorded interview from Israel after his release from almost 30 years of incarceration for spying for Israel as a US citizen.

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The Baum Interviews Podcast - 2021-5-6

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Associate Professor Ronnie Ptaznick in a recent interview on vaccination and his role at Monash Health during COVID.

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The Baum Interviews Podcast - 2021-4-29

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