Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Cara Greenstein, public relations professional and social influencer. Cara started her award-winning brand, Caramelized, about a decade ago with a purpose to share, celebrate,...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Anna Kislanski, CEO of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism. We reflect on the past year in Israel since the tragic events of October 7, 2023. We discuss the...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Abigail Pogrebin, author of “My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew,” a modern exploration into each of the Jewish holidays. We discuss what it means to inherit and then...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  Content warning: This episode discusses an instance of suicidal thoughts.  This week’s guest is Pamela Schuller, a disability and mental health advocate and professional comedian. Pamela has...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Julia Jassey, CEO of Jewish on Campus. Started as an Instagram campaign in 2020, Jewish on Campus is student-led organization dedicated to empowering Jewish students to combat...

Welcome back to a new season of Just For This. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  Content warning: This episode features mentions of gender-based violence and sexual assault.  This week’s guest is Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). First sworn into the US House of...

Welcome to Season 2 of Just For This. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her), CEO of Women of Reform Judaism, interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  Follow Just For This on instagram: @justforthispodcast justforthispodcast.com 

Welcome back to Just For This. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest, for our Season 1 finale, is Elana Arian. Elana is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and prayer leader. We speak and sing about the strength of community and the power of individual voices and...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Rebecca Soffer, best-selling author and co-founder of Modern Loss. Modern Loss is a platform that provides content and community addressing the long arc of grief. This episode...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Tiffany Harris, Chief Program Officer at Moishe House. Moishe House is a global organization focused on providing meaningful, home-based, peer-led Jewish experiences to young...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Rachael Fried, Executive Director of Jewish Queer Youth (JQY). JQY supports and empowers LGBTQ Jewish youth with a special focus on teens and young adults from Orthodox,...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh, Vice President for Jewish Engagement and Director of the Miller Intro to Judaism Program at American Jewish University. We speak about welcoming and...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Rabbi Elka Abrahamson, president of the world-renowned Jewish leadership incubator, the Wexner Foundation. We speak about strategic vision, leadership, and pluralism in the...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is award-winning author Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (she/her), whose books includes On Repentance and Repair and Nurture the Wow. She writes regularly at lifeisasacredtext.com.  We...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Daphne Lazar-Price, Executive Director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA). Listen and learn more! View the transcript here.  Follow Just For This on instagram:...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Founder and CEO of Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action. At the intersection of Passover and Earth Day, we ask agitational questions about why Judaism...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is New York Times best-selling author Anita Diamant, whose work includes fiction, journalism, essays and guidebooks to contemporary Jewish life. Her well-known and varied books...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy. She is the Sophie Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow on Gender, Conflict Resolution, and Peace at the Leonard David Institute for International Relations at the...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). Previously, she led the organization that successfully sued the neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and hate...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch(she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guests are Rabbi Samantha Frank and Rabbi Rena Singer. Together, they started Modern Ritual as an Instagram account in the spring of 2017. They have built a thriving community, online...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) will interview women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest is Sarah Aroeste - musician, writer, cultural leader. Inspired by her family's Sephardic roots, she writes and sings in Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish dialect that originated by...

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) will interview women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest, Rabbi Diana Fersko, is senior rabbi at Village Temple in Manhattan, and author of We Need To Talk About Antisemitism. We discuss how Rabbi Fersko came to write a book about...

Welcome to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) will interview women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.  This week’s guest, Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, Ph.D., is Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Provost and Associate Professor of Bible at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Drawing on Rabbi...