The Jewish Hour

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Jewish radio with memory, music, and Torah.

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The Jewish Hour is a conversational Jewish radio program built around topical interviews, Torah portions, holiday rhythms, music, and stories. Its episodes move from Israel and Jewish history to Passover wine, challah, Ethiopian Jewish food, and communal responsibility.

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About The Jewish Hour

The Jewish Hour is built like a familiar Jewish radio hour rather than a narrow interview podcast. It usually opens with a guest conversation, then shifts into Torah, holidays, Jewish music, and a closing Hasidic story. The format is consistent. The subject matter is broad. Recent episodes move from the aftermath of Middle East wars to Hollywood anti-Nazi efforts, from Colel Chabad to Passover wine, from Israel-U.S. relations to a Jewish year in review, challah, and Ethiopian Jewish cooking. The tone is conversational, sometimes loose, and often openly shaped by the Jewish calendar. Sefirah brings acapella music. Passover interrupts the usual portion cycle. Yom Kippur can overshadow a weekly Torah reading, and a discussion of Iran can turn toward Pekudei and shared responsibility. That mix is the show's center of gravity. Current affairs are heard alongside synagogue life, history, food, family memory, and stories of rabbis and communities. The interviews are direct rather than academic. Michael Benson talks about Jewish men in show business and Nazi activity around Hollywood and Vine. Elad Strohmeyer connects Israel's wartime resilience with unity and obligation. Nesha Grossman starts from the word challah and moves into meaning. B.G. Barhani brings Ethiopian and Israeli context into the hour. The show gives listeners a sense of Jewish public conversation as something lived weekly, not separated into neat categories. It can be serious about war, antisemitism, and communal danger, then return to music, holidays, or a story with a moral turn. Its appeal lies in that old-broadcast texture: topical, religious, local-feeling, and anchored by recurring ritual structure.

Made for: For listeners who want Jewish current affairs, Torah portions, holiday observance, food culture, and communal history in one familiar radio-style format. It suits people comfortable with explicitly Jewish references and a weekly rhythm shaped by the calendar.

What sets it apart: The show stands apart by placing newsy interviews, practical Jewish culture, music choices, Torah interpretation, and Hasidic storytelling inside the same hour. It feels less like a segmented podcast product and more like a long-running community broadcast with a recognizable cadence.

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Detroit's only Jewish radio program with host Herschel Finman. Heard Sunday's 11:00AM-12:00PM ET, on WLQV 1500 AM and wlqv.com. The show features interviews with topical guests, Jewish music of all genre from Avraham Fried to Zoomgalli Boogey, Bikel to Esta, Carlebach to Mickey Katz. Unedited news from Israel, words of inspiration on the Torah Portion of the Week and a Chassidic story.

Israel and Middle East politicsweekly Torah portionJewish holidaysHasidic storiesJewish musicWorld War II and Hollywoodkosher food and wineJewish communal organizations

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The Jewish Hour: Asher Lopatin Trip To Syria

The Jewish Hour: David Jaffee - Director of Operations - Yad Ezra Food Pantry

The Jewish Hour : Roz Komisar Blanck - Bookstock

The Jewish Hour: Michael Benson – Hollywood vs. the Nazis

The Jewish Hour: Zalman Duchman - Colel Chabad

The Jewish Hour: Simon Levin - Royal Wine Corporation

The Jewish Hour: Josh Bennett - Clergy Of Temple Israel

The Jewish Hour: Elad Strohmayer - The Israeli/American Conflict

The Jewish Hour: Daniel Greenbaum - The Diverted Plane To Detroit

Jewish Hour: Adam Jortner, A Promised Land Jewish Patriots (Rebroadcast)

The Jewish Hour: David Mazower - Yiddish Book Center

Jewish Hour: Tod Lending- The Umbrella Maker's Son.

Jewish Hour: Funny, You Don't Look Funny. Jennifer Caplan

Jewish Hour: Adam Jortner, A Promised Land Jewish Patriots.

The Jewish Hour: Asher Lopatin Trip To Syria

The Jewish Hour : Rick Shaffner – International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jewish Hour: Tzvi Freeman - Artficial Intelligence(rebroadcast) and Tazriya Metzora

Jewish Hour: Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Jewish Hour : Gino Segre - The Golden Age of Italian Jews

The Jewish Hour : Eli Ruben - Kaballah and the Rupture of Modernity

The Jewish Hour : Elad Strohmayer - Netanyahu in Florida

The Jewish Hour : Levi Shmotkin - Letters for Life

The Jewish Hour : Moshe Gutnik – The Sydney Massacre

The Jewish Hour : Andrea Strongwater - Lost Synagogues of Europe

The Jewish Hour : Dovid Eliezry - RabbI Yosef Y Schneerson

The Jewish Hour : Chana Finman - Jewish Museums in New York

The Jewish Hour : Her Honor the Mayor Michelle Weiss

The Jewish Hour : Yaakov Raskin - Jamaica & Hurricane Melissa

The Jewish Hour : David Mazower - Yiddish Book Center

The Jewish Hour : David Contorer - Hebrew Free Loan Detroit

The Jewish Hour : Jewish Book Fair - Stephen Kantrowitz

The Jewish Hour : Alfred Dreyfus - Maurice Samuels

The Jewish Hour : Elad Strohmayer - Two Years Since October 7th

The Jewish Hour : Asher Lopatin - 5785 Year in Review

The Jewish Hour: Stepanie Halpern - 100 Objects from the YIVO Collection

The Jewish Hour: William Isaacs - Prostate Cancer in Ashkenazi Men

Jewish Hour: Sorele Brownstein-The Gilded Caage.

The Jewish Hour: Gino Segre - The Golden Age of Italian Jews

The Jewish Hour: Zeesy Silberberg - Hebrew School

Jewish Hour: Livia Thompson - JBI Library

Jewish Hour: Beejhy Barhany - Gursha

Jewish Hour: Nessa Grossman - Challah Bake International

Jewish Hour: Delphine Gamburg - The Challenges of Aid Distribution in Gaza

Jewish Hour: Schmuel Friedman Chabad of Blanca Blanca

Jewish Hour: Rabbi Silberberg - Hosting Israeli Widows and Orphans(Rebroadcast)

Jewish Hour: Jonathan Sassen and Joel Padowitz - The Science Behind the Mishnah(Rebroadcast)

Jewish Hour: Levi Shmotkin - Letters For Life

Jewis Hour: Ephriam Mintz - The Rebbe

Jewish Hour: Shimon Jacobson - Operation Rising Lion

Jewish Hour: Yisroel Wilhelm - Colorado Firebombing

Jewish Hour: Tod Lending - The Umbrella Maker's Son Rebroadcast

Jewish Hour: Nir Arielli - The Dead Sea

Jewish Hour: Eli Ruben - Kaballah and the Rupture of Modernity

Jewish Hour: Beejhy Barhany - Gursha

Jewish Hour: Yossi Pells - Chitas

Jewish Hour-Shlomo Brody Ethics of Our Fighters (ReBroadcast)

Jewish Hour: Steven Kantrowitz from The Jewish Film Festival

Jewish Hour: Livia Thompson-JBI Library

Jewish Hour: Josef Mendelevitch - The Cantonists

Jewish Hour: Asher Lopatin Trip to Syria

Jewish Hour: Efraim Mintz-The Rebbe.

Jewish Hour: Marc Asnin, The Oracle

Jewish Hour; Itai Biran-Peace in Gaza 2025.

Jewish Hour: Miriam Chaya Ferris, Follow up to Kilimanjaro.

Jewish Hour: Shimon Goldberg, Palisades Fire.

Jewish Hour. January 3, 2025.

Jewish Hour: Steven Fine, The Menorah

Jewish Hour: Rabbi Schnuer Silberberg, Chanukah Wonderland.

Jewish Hour: Yiddish - Nachum Eichenhorn

Jewish Hour: Kasriel Shemtov, Menorah in the D 2024.

Jewish Hour-Mike Rothschild Jewish Space Lasers ( Rebroadcast )

Jewish Hour: Shawn E Shawn, Volunteering in Israel.

Adam Jortner; A Promised Land Jewish Patriots.

Jewish Hour: Miriam Chaya Ferris, Climbing Kilimanjaro.