Bad Jew

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What is a bad jew? What does it take to not be one? Is it anti-Semitic to say? Or is it just a phrase that Jews use to cruelly judge one another? Chaz Volk, a newly observant Jew, shares that the greatest way to embrace your identity is to question everything. And we mean EVERYTHING! Chaz questions the Torah, law, politics, standards, communities and even G-d itself in this confrontational and edgy show. About Chaz: Chaz Volk grew up in Thousand Oaks, California where he began Torah studies until he was Bar Mitzva'ed at Temple Etz Chaim. From a young age, he was very aware of his uniqueness and how he was the token-Jew outside of Jewish settings. In middle school, Chaz experienced his first taste of antisemitism which brought him closer to his identity, despite his adversaries' wishes. Later, he'd attend San Francisco State University, where he'd get deeply involved at SF Hillel as a volunteer and intern. SFSU's social climate and its perspective on Jews and Zionism became clear from an early point. He'd later become the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit known today as Volk v. CSU Board of Trustees. In this class action case, Chaz Volk and his representation won. Since then, Chaz has proudly immersed himself in his identity and partaken in communities across southern California. Most recently, Chaz's emotional awakening occurred on an organized trip to Israel. There he adopted new practices that he instilled in his lifestyle to this day. Today, he's a volunteer and frequent of Aish HaTorah's programming and plans to use this show to promote their programs, events, and resources along with valuable Jewish teachings. Want to engage with our online WhatsApp community? Email: BadJewPod@gmail.com Brand partnership: BadJewPod@gmail.com IG: @badjewpod TikTok: @badjewpod

Episode Date
REVENGE - SEASON FINALE (a shiur by Chaz Volk)
Feb 26, 2025
How Does Torah STOP Depression? with Ari Gutman
Feb 12, 2025
What Is Tefillin? with Sruly Meyer
Feb 05, 2025
When Should I Start Dating? with Coach Daniel Ratner
Jan 29, 2025
Why Are New Beginnings Difficult? with Rabbi Benzion Klatzko
Jan 22, 2025
What Is The Psychology of Judaism? with Rabbi Daniel Sher
Jan 15, 2025
What is The Zohar? with Rabbi Natan Halevy
Jan 08, 2025
THE MEANING OF LIFE (Chaz Volk's Going Away Speech)
Jan 01, 2025
How is Hannukah Zionist? with Ari Lesser
Dec 25, 2024
Why Do Jews Care About Money? with Rachel Grose
Dec 18, 2024
Is Vegan Kosher? with Rabbi Akiva Gersh
Dec 11, 2024
How Are Jews Connected to Israel? with Daniel Elbaum
Dec 04, 2024
What Is Radical Amazement? with Rabbi Alex Kress
Nov 27, 2024
Where Do Jews Get Hope? with Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback
Nov 20, 2024
Have Young Jews Forgotten Who They Are? with Alissa Bernstein and David Hazony
Nov 13, 2024
Why Do Mentors Matter for Jews? with Cari Uslan
Nov 06, 2024
How Should Jews Vote This Election? with Z.E. Silver
Nov 05, 2024
Does Jewish Matchmaking Work? with Gabi Koyenov
Oct 30, 2024
What Is The Real Story of Simchat Torah? with Ben Berger
Oct 23, 2024
Why Do Jews Shake Sticks and Fruits? with Rabbi Yitz Jacobs
Oct 16, 2024
Why Do We Fast? with Rabbi Ari Averbach
Oct 09, 2024
Remembering October 7th with Lee Sasi, Ben Berger, and Chaz Volk (The Los Angeles Nova Exhibit)
Oct 07, 2024
Why Do Jews Have a New Year? with Jamie Geller
Oct 02, 2024
Why Do Jews Eat Challah? with Sarah Klegman
Sep 25, 2024
Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People? with Rabbi Asher Resnick
Sep 18, 2024
Does Free Will Exist? with Rabbi M.Z. Dubov
Sep 12, 2024
Is Jewish Identity At Risk? with Shoshanna Stein
Sep 04, 2024
How Do You Ask G-d For Things? with Jesse Orenshein
Aug 28, 2024
Is The IDF The Most Moral Army In The World? with Sam Fried
Aug 21, 2024
Why Should I Study Torah WEEKLY!?!?! With Joey Swaid (BONUS EPISODE!)
Aug 15, 2024
What is the REAL story of Tisha B’Av? With Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser
Aug 15, 2024
Why Does G-d Need Me To Pray? with Rabbi Ephy Greene
Aug 07, 2024
Why Is Modesty So Oppressive? with Moriel Shviki
Jul 31, 2024
Why Don't Jews Proselytize? with Yo Mark Jean
Jul 24, 2024
Why Should Gay People Be Zionist? with Marcus Breman
Jul 16, 2024
How Do You Find YOUR Judaism? with Melinda Strauss
Jul 10, 2024
What Does Yeshiva NOT Teach You? with Daniel Mouyal
Jul 03, 2024
How Do You Give A Good Sermon? with Rabbi Daniel Steinberg
Jun 26, 2024
Is God (Scientifically) Real? with Rabbi Aaron Zimmer and Rabbi Elie Feder
Jun 19, 2024
What Is The Real Story Of Shavuot? with Sruly Meyer
Jun 11, 2024
How Can You Bring Light Unto Nations? with Solomon Friedman
Jun 05, 2024
How Do I Find Love? with "Coach" Daniel Ratner
May 29, 2024
How Do You Do Jewish Activism? with Marla Friedson
May 22, 2024
Who Are The Mizrahi Jews? with Tal Oran
May 15, 2024
What Are Holocaust Survivors Like? (Yom HaShoah Special) with Michael Ruskin
May 08, 2024
What Is Jewish Mindfulness? with Gila Ross
May 01, 2024
What Is The Real Story of Passover? with Rabbi Markman
Apr 24, 2024
How Do You Lead a Passover Dinner (Seder)? with Larry Cohen
Apr 17, 2024
Can Jews Be Transgender? with Michael Alroy?
Apr 10, 2024
What Is Kabbalah? with Reb Adam Polinovskiy
Apr 03, 2024
Can Jews Get Tattoos? with David Braslawsce
Mar 27, 2024
What is the Real Story of Purim? with Rabbi Raps (Chaz's Birthday Episode)
Mar 20, 2024
Are Jews United? with Rabbi Yaacov Haber
Mar 13, 2024
Who Are The Asian Jews? with LUNAR
Mar 06, 2024
Who Are The Jamaican Jews? with Tyler Samuels
Feb 28, 2024
What Are The Shabbat Vibes? with Tori Greene
Feb 21, 2024
What Is Love? with Rabbi Melinda Bernstein
Feb 14, 2024
What is a Bad Jew? Part 2 with Igor Milgram
Feb 07, 2024
How Do Jews Set Goals? with Rabbi David Schlusselberg
Jan 31, 2024
Why Do Jews Like Trees? with Rabbi Levi Begun (a lesson on TuBishvat)
Jan 24, 2024
Do Jews Believe In Astrology? with Lorelai Kude
Jan 17, 2024
How Can I Fight This War? with Shoshanna Stein
Jan 10, 2024
Was It Worth Moving To Israel? with Eli Eisenberg
Jan 03, 2024
What is Palestine? with Liel Kopell
Dec 28, 2023
How Do You Find Peace During War? with Devora Goldberg
Dec 20, 2023
What Changed In Israel After October 7th? with Jacob Churchbourne
Dec 13, 2023
Were the Maccabees Extremists? with Jay Hoffman
Dec 06, 2023
Who is Jewish Voice for Peace? with Arnie Bernstein
Nov 29, 2023
Is Hamas Mentioned in the Torah? with Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport
Nov 22, 2023
How Do You Smile During Dark Times? with Uri Cohn
Nov 15, 2023
Who Are The Kidnapped? with May Perez
Nov 08, 2023
How Will The Israel-Hamas War Impact The 2024 Election? with Jonathan Salant
Nov 01, 2023
Does Social Media Target Jews? with Izzy Salant
Oct 25, 2023
What is Tehillim? with Rabbi Josh Franklin
Oct 18, 2023
What Is The Meaning Behind The WAR IN ISRAEL and Simchat Torah? with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Oct 11, 2023
What Is The Real Story of Sukkot? with Rabbi Levi Begun
Oct 04, 2023
Does Prayer Work? with Brad Weber
Sep 27, 2023
What is the Real Story of Yom Kippur? with Rabbi Jack Melul
Sep 20, 2023
What is the Real Story of Rosh Hashanah? with David Sacks
Sep 13, 2023
Why Aren’t We Aware of G-d? with Yiscah Smith
Sep 06, 2023
How do I tell non-Jews about Judaism? with BennyJeee
Aug 30, 2023
How Do Jews Have Awesome Relationships? with Ted Riter
Aug 23, 2023
Can Jews Repair Things? with Ana Sazonov (a lesson on Tikkun Olam)
Aug 16, 2023
Does Yiddish Even Matter? with Ann Toback
Aug 09, 2023
How Do Jews Grieve? with Zach Faerber
Aug 02, 2023
How Do Jews View Death? with Rabbi Dov Muchnik
Jul 26, 2023
What Do Jews Look Like? with Rayna Rose Exelbierd
Jul 19, 2023
How Do Jews Do Happiness? with Rachael Dadbin
Jul 12, 2023
Why Can't Jews Touch Each Other? with Kevin Nahai (a lesson on Shomer Negiah)
Jul 05, 2023
Why do Jewish Non-Profits Work? with Gary S. Cohn
Jun 28, 2023
How Do Jews Have Sex? with Claire Perelman
Jun 21, 2023
How Can You Try Judaism? with Reena Friedman Watts
Jun 14, 2023
How To Do Business Jewishly with Rabbi Baruch Tuman
Jun 07, 2023
Is Torah for Christians too? with Dr. Rivkah Lambert Adler
May 31, 2023
Can You Be Jewish and LGBTQ? with Raye Schiller
May 24, 2023
Are Soulmates Real? with Aleeza Ben Shalom, matchmaker from Netflix's Jewish Matchmaking!
May 17, 2023
What Is the Role of the Jewish Mom? with Dr. Logan Levkoff
May 10, 2023
Is Judaism Sexist? with Kayla Haber-Goldstein
May 03, 2023
What's So Important About The Shema? with Jason Ciment
Apr 26, 2023
Can Jews Dance? with Orly Star
Apr 19, 2023
Do Jews Care About Mental Health? with Eli Sandhaus
Apr 12, 2023
Why Should They Stand With Us? with Roz Rothstein
Apr 05, 2023
Why Are Some Jews Critical of Israel? with Eyal Shay
Mar 29, 2023
Does Music Matter? with Jonathan Maimon
Mar 22, 2023
Can Jews Fight? with Chanan Smith
Mar 15, 2023
How Many Types of Jews Are There? with Rabbi Moshe Bryski
Mar 08, 2023
Why Does Shabbat Matter? with Aliza Kline
Mar 01, 2023
How Has Judaism Changed? with Yiscah Smith
Feb 22, 2023
Why Be Jewish? with David Sacks
Feb 15, 2023
Why do women suck at dating? (part 2) with Shira Melul
Feb 08, 2023
Why do men suck at dating? (part 1) with Rabbi Jack Melul
Feb 01, 2023
Why are there so many Jews in Hollywood? with Saul Blinkoff
Jan 25, 2023
Is Torah relevant in 2023? with Rabbi Benzion Klatzko
Jan 18, 2023
How do I Fight anti-Semitism? with Kosha Dillz
Jan 11, 2023
What is a Bad Jew? with Chaz Volk
Jan 11, 2023
Bad Jew, The Trailer
Jan 05, 2023