Being Jewish with Jonah Platt is the hit weekly podcast that illuminates the vast, beautiful, and often unexplored tapestry of Jewish identity, through deeply honest and personal conversations with notable Jews and non-Jewish allies alike. Hosted by actor & advocate Jonah Platt, a trusted expert in contemporary Jewish culture, identity, and politics, Being Jewish seeks to engage, educate, and empower listeners to take full ownership of their identities and live as their proudest, most authentic selves. 2025 Webby Honoree | Podcasts - Best Indie Podcast 2025 Wilbur Award Winner
Episodes
Showing 20 of 29- YouTube’s Most Popular (Hasidic!) Rabbi Manis Friedman & How Engaged a Jew are You?6/23/202654 min
- Call Me Back x Being Jewish Crossover! Dan Senor predicts the Jewish Future, plus A New Kind of Aliyah6/16/202655 min
- Does Mayim Bialik Feel Safe in Public? & The Collective Punishment Paradox 6/9/20261 hr 14 min
- Is Antizionism Antisemitism? Adam Louis-Klein, Founder of Movement Against Antizionism6/2/20261 hr 16 min
- Israeli Comedian Yohay Sponder, Plus Finding Your Jewish “Ikigai” (Reason for Being)5/26/20261 hr 14 min
- She's Not Italian, She's Jewish! The Sopranos' Jamie-Lynn Sigler + What is Shavout?!5/19/20261 hr 12 min
- Hollywood to Holy Land: Screenwriter-turned-Orthodox Rabbi Shmuel Lynn5/15/202627 min
- “Bad Jews” (replay) & Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt5/12/20261 hr 3 min
- Epistemic Antisemitism and Black Conservative Influencer Xaviaer DuRousseau5/5/20261 hr 9 min
- Shopify President Harley Finkelstein & The Jews of Thessaloniki4/28/20261 hr 17 min
- The KKK vs. Antizionism and Congressman Josh Gottheimer (Dem, NJ-5)4/21/202659 min
- Should Jews Proselytize? & Dueling Rabbis PART 2 with Sharon Brous & David Ingber4/14/20261 hr 18 min
- Jewish Queer Youth (JQY) Executive Director Rachael Fried 4/10/202631 min
- LIVE FROM SAN DIEGO! Rabbis Sharon Brous (IKAR) & David Ingber (Romemu/92NY)3/31/20261 hr 1 min
- The Ms. Rachel Monologue & The 22-Hour Jew, Trans TV Writer Our Lady J3/24/20261 hr 17 min
- Jonah Does CNN and KIND Founder Daniel Lubetzky3/17/20261 hr 11 min
- On Location with Ethiopian-Jewish Chef and Restaurateur Beejhy Barhany3/10/20261 hr 1 min
- Is Israel an Ethnostate? And the 2026 Israeli Olympic Bobsled Team3/3/20261 hr 13 min
- L’Dor V’adorable is Back! And American-Israeli Cookbook Author Adeena Sussman2/24/20261 hr 3 min
- The Genocide Libel and Comedian Modi Rosenfeld2/17/20261 hr 11 min