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Ami’s House

Official weekly podcast of Ami Kozak! Best shmooze in the game.

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Yaron Brook Challenges Everything You Know About MORALITY in Israel/Gaza | Ami's House 18 Apr 02, 2024

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Dr. Yaron Brook is the Chairman of the Board at the Ayn Rand Institute, an Israeli-American entrepreneur, a former finance professor at Santa Clara University, and one of America's foremost public intellectuals. You may have seen him on Lex Fridman or Sam Harris. We were honored to sit down with him to discuss the current war in Gaza, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, and how to live a meaningful life.

Hosted by Ami Kozak. Co-hosted and produced by Michael Weber. 📺 Clips + Shorts https://youtube.com/@AmisHousePod 🙏🏼 Support on Patreon https://patreon/com/amishouse 🟢 Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/6geoUKSTVsEL2sMQ63pkSN?si=fce90e4b1af44e0b 🎙️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amis-house/id1589871008 📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amishousepod/ 🎶 TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@amishouse_podcast 🐦 Twitter https://twitter.com/AmisHousePod 👉🏻 Follow Ami on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amikozak_official 👉🏻 Follow Ami on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aj_comedy 👉🏻 Subscribe to Mike's weekly newsletter: https://contextiseverywhere.beehiiv.com 👉🏻 Follow Mike on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mweber #israel #israelhamaswar #idf #iof #impressions #israelpalestineconflict #israelnews

Rudy Rochman: IDF Soldier AND Peace Activist | Ami's House Episode #17 Mar 27, 2024

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Rudy Rochman is an Israel activist, content creator, and active soldier in the IDF. For our money, he’s one of the best in the game at changing hearts and minds. We sat down to discuss his unique take on debating, the current war in Gaza, who’s ultimately responsible, and what comes next for the Israelis, Palestinians, and hundreds of millions of Israelites around the world.

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Hosted by @aj-comedy Co-hosted and produced by Michael Weber. 📺 Clips + Shorts https://youtube.com/@AmisHousePod 🙏🏼 Support on Patreon https://patreon/com/amishouse 🟢 Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/6geoUKSTVsEL2sMQ63pkSN?si=fce90e4b1af44e0b 🎙️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amis-house/id1589871008 📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amishousepod/ 🎶 TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@amishouse_podcast 🐦 Twitter https://twitter.com/AmisHousePod

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Raanan Hershberg: Standup, Art vs. Content, & Why Crowd Work is for Hot Cowards | Ami's House #16 Mar 12, 2024

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Hosted by @aj-comedy . Co-hosted and produced by Michael Weber. Find us on: 📺 Clips + Shorts https://youtube.com/@AmisHousePod 🙏🏼 Support on Patreon https://patreon/com/amishouse 🟢 Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/6geoUKSTVsEL2sMQ63pkSN?si=fce90e4b1af44e0b 🎙️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amis-house/id1589871008 📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amishousepod/ 🎶 TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@amishouse_podcast 🐦 Twitter https://twitter.com/AmisHousePod

You can catch @RaananHershberg at the @comedycellarclips, opening for Louis CK on the road, or on his podcast with @JoeListComedy, "Joe and Raanana Talk Movies." We discuss the art of comedy and why he cannot stand a certain smokin' hot comic who loves crowd work.

Raanan on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/raanancomedy/Raanan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RaananHershberg

Ami’s House is a weekly podcast hosted by comedian and musician @aj-comedy with co-host Michael Weber. We schmooze with our favorite artists and thinkers about comedy, politics, and all things Jewish. Links 👉🏻 Follow Ami on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amikozak_official 👉🏻 Follow Ami on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aj_comedy 👉🏻 Subscribe to Mike's weekly newsletter: https://contextiseverywhere.beehiiv.com 👉🏻 Follow Mike on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mweber #standupcomedy #jewishpodcast #louisck #mattrife #mattrifecomedy

Ami and Mike Catch Up: Shane Gillis SNL Review & What's Next for Israel Discourse | Ami's House Ep15 Feb 28, 2024

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Mike sits down with his mentor and spiritual guide– Ami Kozak– to learn how to be a better friend, artist, citizen, and father. Mike listens as Ami shares his wisdom on the Shane Gillis appearance on Saturday Night Live, and how the conversation around #israelpalestineconflict will evolve over the next few months. 🚨 We are launching out VERY FIRST PATREON EPISODE! Please head to patreon.com/amishouse if you'd like to show us some support and check out out BONUS episode for this week 🚨 00:00 Israel discourse 26:18 Shane Gillis SNL Review! 43:00 Big Picture: Why Shane on SNL is a MASSIVE moment

Hosted by Ami Kozak. Co-hosted and produced by Michael Weber. Ami’s House is a weekly podcast hosted by comedian and musician @aj-comedy with co-host Michael Weber. We schmooze with our favorite artists and thinkers about comedy, politics, and all things Jewish. Find us on: 📺 Clips + Shorts https://youtube.com/@AmisHousePod 🙏🏼 Support on Patreon https://patreon/com/amishouse 🟢 Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/6geoUKS... 🎙️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amishousepod/ 🎶 TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@amishouse_pod... 🐦 Twitter https://twitter.com/AmisHousePod Links 👉🏻 Follow Ami on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amikozak_of... 👉🏻 Follow Ami on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aj_comedy 👉🏻 Subscribe to Mike's weekly newsletter: https://contextiseverywhere.beehiiv.com 👉🏻 Follow Mike on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mweber

Dovie Neuburger – Geeking Out on Comedy, Dating, & HEATED Dave Chappelle Debate | Ami's House Ep 14 Feb 21, 2024

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Dovie is a standup comedian, producer, and co-host of controversial podcast Mislaibeled. He joins us for our longest episode ever to go deep on his comedy influences, performing onstage as a prominent rabbi's son, and a heated discussion on whether Dave Chappelle is an antisemite. Please support our partners!

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👌🏼 PLUS: Yonahtees.com for some primo #jamband + #israel t-shirts: https://yonatees.com/collections/jewishbandmerch Hosted by @aj-comedy . Co-hosted and produced by Michael Weber. Find us on: 📺 Clips + Shorts https://youtube.com/@AmisHousePod 🙏🏼 Support on Locals https://amikozak.locals.com/ 🟢 Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/6geoUKSTVsEL2sMQ63pkSN?si=fce90e4b1af44e0b 🎙️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amis-house/id1589871008 📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amishousepod/ 🎶 TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@amishouse_podcast 🐦 Twitter https://twitter.com/AmisHousePod Links 👉🏻 Follow Ami on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amikozak_official 👉🏻 Follow Ami on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aj_comedy 👉🏻 Subscribe to Mike's weekly newsletter: https://contextiseverywhere.beehiiv.com 👉🏻 Follow Mike on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mweber #standupcomedy #comedynerd #jewishpodcast #kosher #israel #jewishmusic #jewisheducation #jewish

Alex Clare – Double-Platinum Frum Performer | Ami's House Episode 13 Feb 13, 2024

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In 2011, Alex wrote a #1 song that changed his life and changed the world of Jewish music along with it when he became an publicly observant Jew. That song went double-platinum and today Alex nearly 300-million streams on Spotify and 100k subs on YouTube.

He also did a Tiny Desk Concert... so, he's the real deal.

We dug deep into the myth of "Alex Clare," how his music has evolved since "Too Close," how it feels to get uber famous, working with Rick Rubin, and the evolving state of Jewish music .

Check out Alex on Spotify

Hosted by @aj-comedy. Co-hosted and produced by Michael Weber. Also find Ami’s House on:

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(00:00) You sick of “Too Close” or what?

(14:47) Hasn’t Jewish Music gotten GOOD?& listening to secular music

(23:50) Initial reaction to Too Close in the frum community

(29:39) What’s Alex been working on since Too Close?

(37:20) Putting tefillin on RICK RUBIN

(46:08) Mysticism of performing for a crowd

(47:15) UK Jews vs American Jews

(49:50) European antisemitism vs American antisemitism

#jewishmusic #kosher #jewishpodcast #torahchannel #podcast #musicianinterview

Ben Younger – Writer/Director of the Iconic Movie "Boiler Room" | Ami's House Episode 12 Feb 05, 2024

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Ben is the writer/director of the films Boiler Room (2000), Prime (2006), and Bleed For This (2016) starring Miles Teller. Most recently he was the Exec Producer for the ABC show The Company You Keep and has written/directed several episodes for Snowfall on FX, among many other projects.

Boiler Room was iconic for many reasons, the biggest one being that 20+ years later it holds up as well as it did when it premiered at Sundance and helped launch Vin Diesel’s career and cement Ben Affleck as a serious actor. Ben has been a huge inspiration for us for us as Jewish creators, and to Mike specifically for portraying Jews on film. It was a thrill to sit down and discuss creativity, Hollywood, and his recent missions to Israel post-October 7th.

🎥 Boiler Room trailer

🎥 Prime trailer:

🎥 Bleed For This trailer

✍🏼 Ben's column for Flying Mag

📸 Ben's Instagram project @IsraelSoWhite

Hosted by @aj-comedy . Co-hosted and produced by Michael Weber. Find us on:

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(00:00) Ben saw something on his Israel trip no other Westerner has

(16:55) Losing friends in Hollywood over anti-zionism

(29:38) Ben’s new Instagram project to combat misinformation

(38:57) Boiler Room does Jews SO well

(40:55) What has Ben been doing between movies?

(51:05) Indie film vs. Studio system

(52:18) People given jobs they didn’t earn

#jewish #israel #filmmaking #creators #movies #film

Madison Margolin– Growing up with Ram Dass & Tripping in The Catskills | Ami's House Episode 11 Jan 23, 2024

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We caught Madison at a special time– when her unique interests and popular culture somehow crossed. She just published her first book (https://www.amazon.com/Exile-Ecstasy-Growing-Psychedelic-Underground/dp/1401973531) which chronicles her coming of age at chassidic psychedelic festivals in the Catskills, where she reconciled her past– as a Buddhist Jew growing up with Ram Dass her present as a journalist –and what might be her future as a weird old lady selling artisanal baskets in Tzfat. We discussed psychedelics, the creative process, October 7th, and how bored Madison gets talking about drugs.

HELPFUL LINKS Order Madison's book here: https://www.amazon.com/Exile-Ecstasy-Growing-Psychedelic-Underground/dp/1401973531 Follow Madison on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madisonmargolin/ Madison’s convo with Mountain Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOX4o5EBIE Yosef Needelman’s “Cannabis Chassidus:” https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/cannabis-chassidis/ 00:00 Growing up around drugs 09:06 Ami's attitude on trying psychedelics 16:30 Heimish psychedelic burnouts 22:50 “Medicine….” Ugh 29:50 Madison is having a moment. How does it feel? 32:18 Creativity in the Orthodox community 35:00 Post-October 7th in Israel As always, find us on... ☼ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6geoUKSTVsEL2sMQ63pkSN?si=25df960bd85e40b6 ☼ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buckle-up/id1589871008 ☼ Instagram (@amishouse): https://www.instagram.com/amishousepod/ ☼ TikTok (@amishouse): https://twitter.com/AmisHousePod ☼ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIZgc8_0dTwuwnQzqnyHlg Follow Ami and Mike! ☼ Follow Ami on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amikozak_official ☼ Follow Ami on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aj_comedy ☼ Subscribe to Mike's weekly newsletter: https://contextiseverywhere.beehiiv.com ☼ Follow Mike on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mweber #psychedelic #judaism #creativity #ramdass

Rabbi David Wolpe – Harvard, South Africa, and Gabor Maté | Ami's House Episode 10 Jan 17, 2024

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Please consider registering for Rabbi Wolpe's conversation with Gabor Mate, coming up 1/23 @ 12:00pm PST: https://www.sinaitemple.org/event/how-do-we-get-to-peace-rabbi-david-wolpe-in-conversation-with-dr-gabor-mate/Rabbi

David Wolpe recently stepped down from the Harvard Antisemitism Advisory Group and is a visiting scholar at the Harvard Divinity School. In 2012, he was named The Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek and remains one of the most visible rabbis in the world. Bottom line– it was a thrill and an honor that he sat down with us. You can find more about Rabbi Wolpe here:

Sinai Temple: http://www.sinaitemple.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RabbiWolpe Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RabbiWolpeWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wolpe

00:00 Claudine Gay and Harvard

07:15 There are TWO kinds of antisemites

14:37 South Africa's genocide claim against Israel at The Hague

20:29 A generation that can't tell right from wrong

25:55 Are Ivy Leagues dead for Jews?

28:43 Anti-zionist CELEBS

33:56 Why engage Gabor Mate?

As always, find us on... ☼ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6geoUKSTVsEL2sMQ63pkSN?si=25df960bd85e40b6 ☼ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buckle-up/id1589871008 ☼ Instagram (@amishouse): https://www.instagram.com/amishousepod/ ☼ TikTok (@amishouse): https://twitter.com/AmisHousePod ☼ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIZgc8_0dTwuwnQzqnyHlg Links ☼ Follow Ami on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amikozak_official ☼ Follow Ami on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aj_comedy ☼ Subscribe to Mike's weekly newsletter: https://contextiseverywhere.beehiiv.com ☼ Follow Mike on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mweber #israelpalestineconflict #jewishpodcast #amyisraelchai #judaism

36-Hours in Hell: An eyewitness account of Hamas in Kfar Aza on October 7th Jan 16, 2024

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Where were you on October 7th? Dvir and Maya Rosenfeld were hiding in their bomb shelter with an 11-month old, trying to keep their baby from crying and exposing them to the terrorists that had taken over their hometown– Kfar Aza.

They’d soon be the aunt and uncle to orphaned twins, friends of hostages and victims, and among the fortunate few to make it out of their homes alive. They are now unlikely spokespeople for the kidnapped who sadly have no voice.

If you’re feeling exhausted of hearing accounts of October 7th, you aren’t alone. But at a time when the events of the attacks are being questioned, it’s never been more important to document the loss of life and humanity at the hands of Hamas.

This their story.

If you’d like to help, please consider donating to help the Weiner and Rosenfeld families from Kfar Aza rebuild:

https://www.migdalohrusa.org/wiener-and-rosenfeld

As always, find us on...

☼ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6geoUKSTVsEL2sMQ63pkSN?si=25df960bd85e40b6

☼ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buckle-up/id1589871008

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