Category: Religion & Spirituality

Elizabeth Bucar is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Boston's Northeastern University. She teaches Islam, Sexual Ethics and Comparative Religion. Professor Bucar's work, which revolves around ethical questions of gender and politics in everyday religious practices, has taken her to Iran, Indonesia, Spain, Turkey and Italy. She's also written several books, her most recent: Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress. We cover a lot of ground in this fascinating conversation.

Join us for Part 2 of our conversation with Malky Goldman and Melissa Weisz, two working actresses who abandoned the insular, cloistered, tight-knit Jewish community in which they were raised, to live, work and experience life in modern-day New York.

Malky Goldman and Melissa Weisz grew up in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Satmar community – an extremely insular world that has very little to do with secular society. They knew next to nothing about theater, film, tv – all of which fall under the heading of sacrilegious. Both women broke away from…

OUR PAST GUEST, Nailah Lymus, a native New Yorker and devout Muslim fashion designer talked to The New Yorker about her modelling agency, Underwraps, which she founded in part to “dispel the received idea that…

Amy Newmark spent 30 years working in finance and telecommunications. In 2008 she made a major career change. That's when Amy and her husband Bill Rouhana, bought the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series from the company's co-founders. Bill's the Chairman and CEO, Amy's the Publisher, Editor-in-Chief and Co-Author. With more than 250 titles - 110 million copies sold in the U.S. and Canada, and 500 million worldwide, "Chicken Soup for the Soul" is the best selling trade paperback book series of all time. Tune in - Amy's got plenty to share.