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Chai on Life46. Make Pesach Fun Again with Chanie Apfelbaum of Busy in BrooklynI am so excited about today’s guest because it is Chanie Apfelbaum of Busy in Brooklyn.If you are not already familiar, Chanie is a food writer and photographer who has a really unique way of blending traditional Jewish foods with modern flavors. She started her blog, Busy in Brooklyn, in 2011 so it’s been giving us delicious recipe ideas for all occasions for nearly 15 years now. She is also the author of two cookbooks, Millennial Kosher and Totally Kosher where you can get even more recipe ideas from Chanie as well as tons...
2025-03-241h 03
Deep Meaningful ConversationsDreaming of Parenthood with Chanie Bochner of Bonei Olam24 years ago during candlelighting erev Yom Kippur, Chanie Bochner made the decision that she wanted to help others who were going through the same struggle as she was. What started as a grass-roots effort to support couples experiencing infertility morphed into an international organization that to date, has helped bring over 10,000 babies into this world.For this episode, we have the honor of speaking with Chanie Bochner who founded Bonei Olam. Bonei Olam is a Jewish organization that provides millions of dollars annually in fertility treatment funding. They leave no stone unturned to help...
2022-10-0343 min
Schools of Excellence: The No. 1 ECE & Private School Leadership Podcast25. Stories of Resilience with Alex Bernath & Miken OliverAlex Bernath & Miken Oliver lead the Nourish Early Learning Center in Oregon, Ohio. Alex actually lives in Brooklyn, New York, and leads the center from there with her husband Josh and her two children ages one and three. Miken is the director of the day-to-day and is married to Tim and a mom of three children, ages five, three, and one. They have a pretty large center of 25 teachers, 95 families, and 114 children. Nourish is their mom’s school. Their mom took great pride in building and creating a legacy. When tragedy hit, and the sisters lost their mot...
2021-05-2831 min
Fire in the Hole PodcastFitH Ep.99 AA Meeting in "Check Your Phone"Our good buddy Adam Clarke invited us to his jam space to chat with his band "AA Meeting" and get a preview of some of their songs. They have a couple of benefit shows coming up, where all proceeds go to the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund", a charity in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Canada.
Learn more about it here: https://www.downiewenjack.ca/
And be sure to come out to support a great cause and a great bunch of guys.
Feb 2nd @ Mckibbins Irish Pub in Vaudreuil-Dorion
Feb 6th @ Lescalier on St-Catherine E. in Montreal
You...
2018-01-221h 49Fire in the Hole PodcastFitH Ep.99 AA Meeting in "Check Your Phone"Our good buddy Adam Clarke invited us to his jam space to chat with his band "AA Meeting" and get a preview of some of their songs. They have a couple of benefit shows coming up, where all proceeds go to the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund", a charity in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Canada.
Learn more about it here: https://www.downiewenjack.ca/
And be sure to come out to support a great cause and a great bunch of guys.
Feb 2nd @ Mckibbins Irish Pub in Vaudreuil-Dorion
Feb 6th @ Lescalier on St-Catherine E. in Montreal
You...
2018-01-221h 49
Semi-Intellectual MusingsHoliday TraditionsWe all celebrate the holiday season differently. That’s a good thing. On this episode Matt & Phil share their holiday traditions. From savory meat pies, to sugary cookies, to cups filled with rum and eggnog, they show how good food and good people make the holidays a special time of the year. During the second half of the show, Phil connects with friends of the podcast to talk about their holiday traditions. We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season.
We thank Alex Diskin for kindly allowing us to play three of his songs: Heist, Outlaw, an...
2017-12-231h 35
Semi-Intellectual MusingsOctober Bonus - Is Anyone There?This bonus episode features us, Matt & Phil, escaping a zombie apocalypse. Luckily, we end up connecting over the airwaves with Alex & Zach from the Is Anyone There podcast. After having travelled through the infested terrain of Ottawa, Ontario and made our way to a safe bunker, Alex & Zach gave us much needed survival tips: light a bunch of gas on fire to make a smoke signal, empty out all our water because it could have killed us, and cut off Matt's arm. Do we survive? Probably. Is it because of Alex & Zach? Probably not. Do we figure out how t...
2017-10-311h 07
Table for TwoGuests: Bloggers Alex Idov TheKosherologist.com, Melinda Strauss from Kitchen-tested.com and Chanie Apfelbaum from Busyinbrooklyn.com
2014-12-1900 min