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hmTv is a podcast platform dedicated to exploring the humanity in all of us through impactful stories and discussions.   Executive Producer Bernie Furshpan has developed a state-of-the-art podcast studio within the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, creating a dynamic platform for dialogue.  Holocaust survivor testimony, in their own words. hmTv is the podcast of the Holocaust Memorial Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) — 700+ episodes of survivor stories, upstander profiles, and honest conversations about antisemitism, bullying, and the courage to act. Holocaust survivor testimony, in their own words. hmTv is the podcast of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) — 600+ episodes of survivor stories, upstander profiles, and honest conversations about antisemitism, bullying, and the courage to act. Across 30+ show series, survivors, educators, historians, and journalists explore the history of the Holocaust and its lessons for today. HMTC is a nonprofit that has served Long Island schools, educators, law enforcement, and communities for 25+ years — teaching the history of the Holocaust to promote resistance to prejudice and respect for every human being. This podcast brings that mission to anyone, anywhere. Follow to hear the stories that matter. Learn more at hmtcli.org · Glen Cove, NY · Instagram @hmtcli · Facebook @HMTCLI

  1. 1d ago

    Ep 706 The UN Society and Antisemitism with Susanne Seperson and guest Itay Ken-Tor on hmTv

    Send us Fan Mail The UN, Society and Antisemitism | Ep. 706: Itay Ken-Tor, Preserving October 7 Testimony | HMTC DESCRIPTION Two days after the October 7, 2023 attacks, filmmaker Itay Ken-Tor began helping survivors preserve their firsthand accounts. The result is Edut 710, an archive containing more than 2,100 filmed testimonies created with trauma-informed listening, ethical safeguards, and future generations in mind. On The UN, Society and Antisemitism, host Dr. Susanne Seperson speaks with Itay about the documentary work that prepared him for this mission, including productions for Yad Vashem and A Film Unfinished, an examination of manipulated Nazi footage from the Warsaw Ghetto. They explore how visual media constructs narratives, why truth requires multiple perspectives and corroborating sources, and how artificial intelligence makes media literacy increasingly urgent. Itay also explains Edut 710’s searchable digital archive and its commitment to making full testimony accessible. His closing message is both practical and deeply human: listen carefully, question sources, seek different perspectives, and preserve authentic voices before they are lost. The UN, Society and Antisemitism on hmTv | Host: Dr. Susanne Seperson | Guest: Itay Ken-Tor A production of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County 🔗 Explore the testimony archive at edut710.org. 🎧 hmtcli.org 📺 buzzsprout.com/2449781 youtube.com/@hmTv-hmtc CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 2:17 Itay’s Path to Documentary Filmmaking 3:32 Founding Edut 710 After October 7 7:48 The Meaning of Edut 710 9:28 Trauma-Informed Listening and Testimony 13:10 Preservation, Tradition, and Progress 15:48 A Film Unfinished and Visual Manipulation 20:02 Facts, Memory, and Multiple Perspectives 23:37 Testimony in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 27:00 Trust, Ethics, and the Viewer 28:07 Preserving Memory Amid Current Events 30:20 Social Media, Education, and Antisemitism 33:05 The Essential Takeaway: Listen 34:31 Closing HASHTAGS #TheUNSocietyAndAntisemitism #Edut710 #October7Testimony #MediaLiteracy #HMTC Support the show

  2. Sep 18

    Ep 705: Kibitz with Keren with Doron Keren and guest Sadie Herz on hmTv

    Send us Fan Mail Kibitz with Keren | Ep. 705: Sadie Herz, A Witness to a Witness | HMTC Sadie Herz entered UJA’s Witness Project expecting to learn from a Holocaust survivor. After hearing Christine Keren’s testimony, she realized that learning was not enough. She had become responsible for carrying the story forward. On Kibitz with Keren, host Doron Keren speaks with the high school senior who was paired with his mother through the program. Sadie explains why survivor testimony creates both intellectual and emotional connections, and why her generation must become “witnesses to a witness.” The conversation explores Jewish identity, Holocaust education, leadership, work ethic, campus safety, and Sadie’s ambitions in applied mathematics and astrophysics. She also describes experiencing antisemitic harassment at school and how questioning hatred strengthened her determination to educate others. Through research, teaching, advocacy, and an unapologetic sense of self, Sadie represents a generation prepared to remember, speak, and act. Her message is clear: the future changes only when people choose to change it. Kibitz with Keren on hmTv | Host: Doron Keren | Guest: Sadie Herz A production of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County 🎧 hmtcli.org 📺 buzzsprout.com/2449781 youtube.com/@hmTv-hmtc CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 3:51 What Gives Sadie Hope? 4:45 Turning Learning Into Education 5:36 Carrying Christine Keren’s Story 7:54 Why Survivor Testimony Changes Learning 9:23 Becoming a Witness to a Witness 10:05 Identity Before College 12:45 Work and the Value of Money 14:55 Choosing a Supportive College 17:22 Astrophysics and Future Ambitions 19:04 A Strong Jewish Woman in STEM 20:08 Facing Antisemitism at School 23:21 Questioning Hatred and Standing Proud 24:36 Closing HASHTAGS #KibitzWithKeren #HolocaustEducation #JewishIdentity #Upstander #HMTC Support the show

  3. Sep 17

    Ep 704: Ordinary Heroes with Bernie Furshpan and guest Julie Budd on hmTv

    Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 704: Julie Budd, From Brooklyn to Sinatra and Beyond | HMTC At 15, Julie Budd walked into a Las Vegas rehearsal and discovered that the person blowing kisses from the wings was Frank Sinatra. He had personally chosen her to open his show and later asked her to keep the American Songbook alive. On Ordinary Heroes, host Bernie Furshpan welcomes his friend for a conversation spanning her Brooklyn childhood, Jewish upbringing, early television career, legendary collaborators, and performances at the Metropolitan Room. Julie explains how family, faith, discipline, and a strong sense of identity protected her while growing up in show business. She also shares her grandmother’s heartbreaking family letters from Europe, memories of Holocaust survivors, and the lesson her mother taught her: be kind because you never know what someone is facing. Bernie and Julie reflect on antisemitism, misinformation, empathy, critical thinking, and the responsibility to resist cruelty. Through every chapter of her life, Julie returns to optimism, gratitude, and the belief that humanity can still choose a better path. Ordinary Heroes on hmTv | Host: Bernie Furshpan | Guest: Julie Budd A production of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County 🎧 hmtcli.org 📺 buzzsprout.com/2449781 youtube.com/@hmTv-hmtc CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 3:17 Brooklyn Roots and Jewish Identity 6:09 A Childhood Career in Show Business 9:43 Meeting Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas 13:49 The Metropolitan Room and Lifelong Friendship 15:05 Julie’s Family and Holocaust Memory 22:41 Understanding Trauma and Survival 23:21 A Mother’s Lesson in Empathy 25:04 Compassion for People Seeking Safety 27:34 Antisemitism and Religious Freedom 29:24 Social Media, Misinformation, and Hate 34:47 Education, Critical Thinking, and Moral Clarity 40:03 Choosing Optimism and Moving Forward 42:53 Closing HASHTAGS #OrdinaryHeroes #JulieBudd #JewishIdentity #Empathy #HMTC Support the show

  4. Sep 17

    Ep 703: The Dana Download with Dana Arschin and guest Daniella Rabbani on hmTv

    Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 703: Daniella Rabbani, Carrying Yiddish Forward | HMTC Yiddish first surrounded Daniella Rabbani as the adults’ language, spoken by her Holocaust survivor grandparents but not passed directly to her. Years later, music helped her reclaim it. On The Dana Download, host Dana Arschin Kraslow speaks with the actor and singer about her Ashkenazi and Sephardic roots, learning Yiddish as an adult, and carrying its humor, history, and emotional depth to new audiences. Daniella performs and reflects on “Oyfn Pripetshik,” a beloved song about children learning the Hebrew alphabet. She explains how its message of literacy, memory, and generational continuity gained new meaning after the Holocaust. Their conversation also explores Jewish languages, inherited trauma and resilience, Yiddish theater, and the cultural connections that unite diverse Jewish communities. Through her album Klezmeret and its documentary companion, Daniella invites listeners not only to preserve Yiddish, but to experience it as a living language filled with learning, laughter, music, and belonging. The Dana Download on hmTv | Host: Dana Arschin Kraslow | Guest: Daniella Rabbani A production of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County 🔗 Follow @DaniellaRabbani on Instagram for Klezmeret music and concert information. 🎧 hmtcli.org 📺 buzzsprout.com/2449781 youtube.com/@hmTv-hmtc CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:33 A Friendship Rooted in Shared Identity 3:43 Family History and the Yiddish Language 6:35 Learning Yiddish Through Music 8:07 A Song Revives Family Memory 10:27 Yiddish Across Jewish Communities 14:17 “Oyfn Pripetshik” and Jewish Literacy 17:28 A Lullaby Transformed by History 20:05 Interpreting and Renewing Yiddish Music 21:00 The Klezmeret Album and Documentary 22:06 Yiddish Songs in Performance 24:08 How Listeners Can Begin 24:53 The Meaning of Klezmeret 25:38 Closing HASHTAGS #TheDanaDownload #Yiddish #JewishCulture #JewishMusic #HMTC Support the show

  5. Sep 16

    Ep 702: The Dana Download with Dana Arschin and guest Lynne Goldberg on hmTv

    Send us Fan Mail The Dana Download | Ep. 702: Lynne Goldberg - Catching Your Breath | HMTC After two cancer diagnoses, the end of a 20-year marriage, her daughter leaving for college, and a major career change, Lynne Goldberg faced a question: What comes next? On The Dana Download, host Dana Arschin Kraslow speaks with the author of Catching Your Breath, meditation teacher, speaker, and co-founder of the Breethe app about grief, reinvention, inherited trauma, and conscious choice. Lynne also reflects on losing twin daughters after their premature birth and later becoming the mother of three children, two through adoption and one biologically. Dana shares how her grandfather’s survival at Auschwitz shaped her identity and work documenting Holocaust testimony. Together, they explore how pain and silence travel through families and how awareness can interrupt recurring patterns. Lynne introduces “choicefulness” and five principles for navigating change: radical recognition, feeling your feelings, adaptability, alchemy, and rising. Her message is clear: we cannot control every event, but we can choose how we meet what comes next. The Dana Download on hmTv | Host: Dana Arschin Kraslow | Guest: Lynne Goldberg A production of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County 🔗 lynnegoldbergmeditation.com instagram.com/lynnegoldbergmeditation 🎧 hmtcli.org 📺 buzzsprout.com/2449781 youtube.com/@hmTv-hmtc CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 3:03 Catching Your Breath begins 4:04 Cancer, divorce, and major life changes 6:11 Losing twin daughters and finding family 8:34 Recognizing patterns and rewriting the ending 10:42 Dana’s inherited Holocaust memory 12:41 Generational trauma and shared patterns 15:55 Meditation, choicefulness, and conscious response 18:33 Five principles for navigating change 20:54 Catching patterns without chasing perfection 22:14 Where to find Lynne’s book and work 22:42 The moment meditation changed everything 23:53 What meditation really means 24:25 Closing HASHTAGS #TheDanaDownload #CatchingYourBreath #Meditation #Resilience #HMTC Support the show

  6. Sep 9

    Ep 701: Ordinary Heroes with Bernie Furshpan and guest Dr Greg Weiner on hmTv

    Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 701: Dr. Greg Weiner - First Jewish President of a Catholic University | HMTC Growing up in the only Jewish family in a small Texas town taught Dr. Greg Weiner that a strong identity can make genuine friendship across differences possible. Today, as the first Jewish president of a Catholic university, he brings that lesson to higher education. In Episode 700 of Ordinary Heroes, host Bernie Furshpan speaks with the Assumption University president about faith, liberal education, antisemitism, and civic friendship. Greg explains what Jewish and Catholic intellectual traditions share, why productive disagreement requires more than politeness, and how common commitments can transform opponents into fellow citizens. Their conversation also considers what Jewish families should seek in a university, why education without moral character is insufficient, and the urgency of preserving survivor testimony as direct memory fades. Greg’s message is clear: college should not confirm that students already know everything. It should cultivate curiosity, nuance, intellectual humility, and the courage to seek truth while respecting the identities and beliefs of others. Ordinary Heroes on hmTv | Host: Bernie Furshpan | Guest: Dr. Greg Weiner A production of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County 🎧 hmtcli.org 📺 buzzsprout.com/2449781 youtube.com/@hmTv-hmtc CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 2:13 Growing up Jewish in small-town Texas 4:15 First Jewish president of a Catholic university 5:30 Jewish and Catholic traditions of learning 7:36 A responsibility to speak after October 7 10:28 What Catholic colleges can offer Jewish students 12:43 Art and interfaith engagement 14:58 Civic friendship and productive disagreement 16:43 Identity as a foundation for respect 18:22 Holocaust survival, faith, and memory 23:22 How ordinary people become participants in hate 23:56 Education, character, and antisemitism 26:07 Curiosity, nuance, and the purpose of college 27:10 Closing HASHTAGS #OrdinaryHeroes #HigherEducation #CivicFriendship #Antisemitism #HMTC Support the show

  7. Sep 8

    Ep 700: Ordinary Heroes with Bernie Furshpan and guest Dena Schusterman on hmTv

    Send us Fan Mail Ordinary Heroes | Ep. 700: Dena Schusterman - The Stories We Carry | HMTC A little girl once asked her father to carry her on a long walk to synagogue. He answered, “I’ll carry you with my stories.” For Dena Schusterman, that childhood memory reveals how family stories give us strength, shape identity, and sometimes need to be reexamined. On Ordinary Heroes, host Bernie Furshpan speaks with the author of Stories Carry: We All Carry Them. Some Even Carry Us. about faith, family, belonging, resilience, and inherited trauma. Dena reflects on four generations of women, her upbringing within Chabad-Lubavitch, and the difference between fitting into a community and showing up as your authentic self. Their conversation explores how to question unhealthy patterns without dishonoring those who came before us, how compassion can coexist with accountability, and why specific questions help preserve family memory. Breaking a cycle, they suggest, does not require erasing the past. It means carrying forward the love and strength while refusing to pass inherited wounds to the next generation. Ordinary Heroes on hmTv | Host: Bernie Furshpan | Guest: Dena Schusterman A production of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County 🔗 denaschusterman.com merceruniversitypress.com 🎧 hmtcli.org 📺 buzzsprout.com/2449781 youtube.com/@hmTv-hmtc CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 2:22 When family stories carry us 5:55 A father’s survival as inherited strength 7:27 Holocaust memory and perspective 8:36 Four generations of women 10:59 The people behind Chabad 12:54 Breaking cycles without rejecting the past 15:21 Resilience, trauma, and what we choose to inherit 17:03 Belonging as your authentic self 18:45 Honesty, compassion, and accountability 21:09 What we pass to the next generation 24:16 Questions to ask while we still can 25:47 Where to find Stories Carry 27:26 Closing HASHTAGS #OrdinaryHeroes #StoriesCarry #FamilyStories #Resilience #HMTC Support the show

  8. Sep 6

    Ep 699: Putting the Brakes on Bullying with Samantha Sosnik and guest David Ben-Arie on hmTv

    Send us Fan Mail Putting the Brakes on Bullying | Ep. 699: David Ben-Arie - Naming the Harm, Part 2 | HMTC David Ben-Arie spent years minimizing the bullying and antisemitism he experienced as a child. If others had endured worse, he reasoned, perhaps what happened to him did not count. Only later did he recognize that dismissing the harm delayed his ability to heal. In Part 2 of Putting the Brakes on Bullying, host Samantha Sosnik welcomes David back for a candid discussion about childhood harassment, adult exclusion, hidden cruelty, accountability, and the lasting effects of being targeted for identity or self-expression. They examine how parents, educators, and institutions respond when someone is isolated, why removing the person being harmed does not solve the underlying problem, and what it means to stand beside those with less power. David also contrasts painful experiences with the generosity of mentors who welcomed him into his cantorial studies. Their message is practical: name harmful behavior honestly, investigate it fairly, teach accountability, and create communities where difference is respected and service matters more than status. Putting the Brakes on Bullying on hmTv | Host: Samantha Sosnik | Guest: David Ben-Arie A production of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County 🎧 hmtcli.org 📺 buzzsprout.com/2449781 youtube.com/@hmTv-hmtc CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 2:24 Why people minimize bullying 4:09 Childhood bullying and self-expression 6:25 Parents, schools, and accountability 7:05 Experiencing antisemitism in high school 8:36 Can a former bully change? 12:03 Bullying that is difficult to prove 16:16 Choosing kindness after exclusion 17:17 When institutions remove the victim 18:58 Standing with people who have less power 22:26 Why everyone deserves to feel welcome 25:39 Mentorship and belonging 27:30 Adult bullying and professional respect 33:29 Closing HASHTAGS #PuttingTheBrakesOnBullying #BullyingPrevention #Antisemitism #Upstander #HMTC Support the show

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hmTv is a podcast platform dedicated to exploring the humanity in all of us through impactful stories and discussions.   Executive Producer Bernie Furshpan has developed a state-of-the-art podcast studio within the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, creating a dynamic platform for dialogue.  Holocaust survivor testimony, in their own words. hmTv is the podcast of the Holocaust Memorial Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) — 700+ episodes of survivor stories, upstander profiles, and honest conversations about antisemitism, bullying, and the courage to act. Holocaust survivor testimony, in their own words. hmTv is the podcast of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) — 600+ episodes of survivor stories, upstander profiles, and honest conversations about antisemitism, bullying, and the courage to act. Across 30+ show series, survivors, educators, historians, and journalists explore the history of the Holocaust and its lessons for today. HMTC is a nonprofit that has served Long Island schools, educators, law enforcement, and communities for 25+ years — teaching the history of the Holocaust to promote resistance to prejudice and respect for every human being. This podcast brings that mission to anyone, anywhere. Follow to hear the stories that matter. Learn more at hmtcli.org · Glen Cove, NY · Instagram @hmtcli · Facebook @HMTCLI

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    HMTC
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    704
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