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Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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On Story of the Week, “journalist” Joel Stein chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer to tell him about it, and then interrupts a good conversation by talking about himself. Sometimes the story will be the one everyone is talking about, like the New Yorker article on smoking hallucinogenic toads. Other times we’ll find a story you might have missed, like the one in the Verge about the rock groupie turned hacker who had huge corporations at her mercy. These are stories yo ...
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The Story Of The Week

J Cleveland Payne

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An unlikely source of weekly commentary produced by The Conversation Project, 'The Story Of The Week' allows the owner and curator of news articles for The Conversation Project a chance to take a deep dive into one of the more conversational news stories of the week. J Cleveland Payne chooses a story that was featured in the top ten stories of the week per data on engagement presented in "The Weekly Wrap-Up," offering his person view along with notes of how the story's coverage was received ...
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a visit to the Gerer Rebbe's Tish in Jerusalem and the second about Reb Naftoli of Rophshitz collecting tzedakah for poor Jews.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!A…
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This week I have one long Baal Shem Tov story for you and then all of the previous Purim stories. Enjoy. Gut Purim, my sweetest friends.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hu…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a simple Jew who the Baal Shem Tov sees has a holy fire burning above him and tries to understand why and the second is about a young boy with crooked legs that gets a bracha from the last Lubavitcher Rebbe.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coff…
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With the 96th Academy Awards this Sunday, we wanted to revisit this episode from last year. The Oscars seems to be cursed with a series of chaotic live television gaffes. But one moment in Academy Award history takes the cake. In 1974, a scrawny white man named Robert Opel ran across the stage butt naked, right as the Best Picture category was bein…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a spice merchant that gives Reb Leib Sarah's a loan and gets back much more than he could imagine and the second a couple that hosts is tested by Heaven.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply…
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Gary Goldman was a writer on “Total Recall”, a Philip K. Dick adaptation directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzeneger. It was a big hit. So why do Gary and his writing partner, Angus Fletcher, have so much trouble selling another Philip K. Dick adaptation? They tell Malcolm that it all came down to a roller coaster ride of plot twis…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a chassid of the Rebbe Mordechai of Nadvorna who is asked to do a favor for a gentile woman and the second about the Rebbe Maharash visiting the fanciest casino in Paris.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Th…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first about a simple woodchopper who gets a bracha from Reb Moshe Lieb of Sassov and the tzadik's bracha can never be stopped and the second about a desperate tavern owner that comes to Reb Zusha for help.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first about a Chassid of the Rebbe Rashab who is down on his luck but discovers a lost wallet and the second about a wealthy Jew who makes a special reminder for himself to remember to remain humble and a third very short story about the last Lubavitcher Rebbe.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, plea…
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This week I have a two stories for you from the archives since I'm recovering from the flu and couldn't record this week, the first is about a woman who gives tzedakah to the Pressburg yeshiva to say kaddish for anyone who doesn't have someone to say kaddish for them and the second about a wealthy Chassid delivering a letter for Baal Shem Tov.If yo…
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Last week, Britney Spears fans played a prank on Justin Timberlake by streaming her 2011 song "Selfish" after the of a new song under the same name by her former boyfriend. So we use that as the inspiration for this edition of “The Story of The Week,” which doesn’t bring sexy back, but does dig up dirt with Spears, a very ‘selfish’ interruption of …
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This week I have a two stories for you, the first is about a Misnaged that hated the Baal Shem Tov, but has no choice than to go to him and the second about the son of the Pnei Yehoshua being an ignoramus.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appr…
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This week, the House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Matt Gaetz has reached out to Joel Greenberg, a one-time close friend of Gaetz who was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges. The Committee also reached out to other new witnesses, much to the disdain of Gaetz. My commentary goes into the basics of the probe…
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This week I have a two stories for you, the first is about a high ranking KGB officer who comes looking for the local mohel and the second about a chassid of the Rebbe Rashab hoping for a miracle to get out of being drafted into the Russian army.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.…
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This week I have a few stories for you about the Baba Sali, the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Reb Meir Abehsera and the power of tzadikim. If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman…
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This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a kind couple that hosts the Chernobyler Rebbe every year, but this year the rebbe refuses to come to their house and the second about a nobleman who became sick and got a blessing from the Rebbe Maharash of Lubavitch.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to bu…
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This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a poor Jew who needs to marry off his daughter and comes to the Kosover Rebbe for advice and the second about a wealthy couple that weren't blessed with children and come to the Radzyminer Rebbe for advice.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffe…
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This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a special guest at a brit mila for a couple that was married for 20 years and didn't have children before and the second a story that I heard from my rabbi of blessed memory, Reb Sholom Brodt, about a Jew that survived the Holocaust and did everything he could to avoid keeping Torah or mitzvo…
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This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a top student of the Chofetz Chaim who makes him promise to never break shabbos and the second about a generous wealthy Jew helping a poor orphan couple to get married.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Than…
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This week, the Israeli forces started testing flooding the Hamas tunnel network with seawater as a new attack tactic, knowing that the move could backfire in the long run as they don't know where the remaining hostages taken on October 7th are located. I am not the most significant resource on international armed conflict, but I am willing to put m…
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This week I have one long Baal Shem Tov story about a wealthy couple that is blessed by the Baal Shem Tov to have a son that he promises to raise as his own.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!Also available at https://so…
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Julianna Margulies and Susan Sarandon issued apologies over their recent controversial comments sparked by Israel-Hamas war. They spoke from different sides of the conflict but quickly backed down from their original passionate speech after a quick crisis and backlash. This week's commentary doesn't quite stick to the point, but it gives some persp…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a Chassid of the Mittler Rebbe that asks for help but the Rebbe apparently made a mistake and the second about a broken bottle of oil used for Chanukah, then I have four other Chanukah stories for you from previous years.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to…
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Bobby Petrino is headed back to the University of Arkansas football program as its new Offensive Coordinator, about a decade after leaving the school after a sex scandal that was just enough to overshadow his winning record (barely). This week, I go into the back story of Petrino and why this new edition seems like a problem just for me and not a s…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a Chassid of the Mittler Rebbe that becomes a wagon driver because the rebbe told him so and the second about the horses of the Baal Shem Tov who came to think that they were angels.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/bar…
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Jessica Alba made an appearance on Bobbi Althoff's The Really Good Podcast. This interview sent the internet a buzz with the statements on Bobbi being a "6," Jessica being a "9," and a 26-year-old 6, is more attractive than a 42-year-old "9." As a 49-year-old...whatever, I take 20 minutes to rant about the silliness of this statement, how I would h…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a genius Torah scholar who has questions that no one except the Baal Shem Tov can answer and the second from the Six Day War in 1967 with Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu and the Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hevron.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to bu…
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The title for this week's podcast is a swerve since I will discuss Marianne Williamson's viability to become the President of the United States in 2024. But I talk about all the people who have put their names and reputations on the line for the shot at the title of '47,' and none of them have a chance to shake off '46' or '45' (assuming '45' doesn…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a young man who decides to leave being a religious Jew at the time of the enlightenment and the second about every person have their particular mission in this world.This is the link the article I mentioned at the end of the podcast where I answer some of the difficult questions being asked a…
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This week I have two stories for you, the first about the Vorker Rebbe before he became rebbe when his rebbe, the Seer of Lublin advised him to become a simple teacher even though he was very wealthy and the second about a great Torah teacher that got a gift from the Tzemach Tzedek.If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick mome…
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