Adapting Podcast: Fighting Toxic Masculinity and Raising Healthy Jewish Boys
Listen on Apple or Spotify! Being a man is not about how tall you are or how much money you make, despite what some voices in the Manosphere may claim. It’s about overcoming impulses, taking responsibility, and learning how to show up for others with dignity and care. But in a culture where many
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Being a man is not about how tall you are or how much money you make, despite what some voices in the Manosphere may claim. It’s about overcoming impulses, taking responsibility, and learning how to show up for others with dignity and care. But in a culture where many boys encounter masculinity first through algorithms, educators and parents are left asking a difficult question: How do we teach young men what healthy manhood actually looks like?
In this episode, Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath speaks with Adam Teitelbaum about the growing crises facing boys and men, from loneliness and lack of belonging to the absence of visible male role models in Jewish communal life. Together, they explore how Jewish ritual, obligation, and community can offer an alternative framework for raising confident, emotionally healthy Jewish young men without diminishing anyone else’s humanity in the process.
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