Shtark Tank

Yosef Guedalia escaped his burning jeep, and ran straight at the terrorists position. For the third year running, we mark the Aseret Yemei Teshuva with Yizkor 10.7, honoring the heroes of October 7th. This years episode...

For Rosh Hashana we wanted to do something special. Eight voices from around the world, eight perspectives on the Yamim Noraim. Here's the lineup: Ezra Meyer — car salesman and global chazzan, on how he prepares to lead...

Emotional support at the end of life. Thorny halachic questions about scientific medical breakthoughs. AI and the end of work. These are all part of the Rabbi Jason Weiner's daily routine. Rabbi Weiner is the senior...

Subscribe to our newsletter at Shtarktank.org Rav Hershel Schachter addresses one of the most persistent tensions in the frum professional world: does the ben Torah at work matter as much as the one in the beis medrash...

One year ago, Alec Kremins got fired. Same week he found out his wife was pregnant with their first child. He had a choice: go find another stable job, or bet on himself. He went all in. Alec built his career at Ramp...

Har HaBayit. Torah Im Derech Eretz. Searching for Meaning. It's the summer mailbag episode! Yaakov opens up the inbox and brings on Rav Ari Koretsky (director of Meor Maryland, host of the Iyun podcast) to work through...

What happens after the fire of yeshiva goes out? This week I'm sharing an episode from Torat JLIC , a podcast I love, one that takes the complexity of modern life seriously instead of talking around it. The guest for...

How do you mourn a Beis Hamikdash you never knew, in a generation that's watched Klal Yisrael return to Eretz Yisrael and rebuild a country? Rav Moshe Taragin returns to Shtark Tank to help us hold two truths at once...

To recieve a free copy of Light in the Darkness, about Shemirat HaEinayim in today's world, email dan.jacobson.psyd@gmail.comSummer turns up the heat on shmiras einayim, and this episode isn't going to fix that. It's an...

The three weeks are here. The time when we refocus on the fact that our lives are incomplete. There is a gaping hole in our ruchniyus, located at the holiest spot in the world. Har HaBayit. Some of us just think about...

New beginnings are hard. Shtark Tank went live at Yeshiva University Israel in Beit Vagan, recording in front of a room full of YU summer interns spending their summer working in Israel. The theme: new beginnings and...

Teddy Berman grew up in the Syrian community in Flatbush, went to college, worked in finance — and then got the itch. Almost ten years of learning later, he's back in the driver's seat, building a family in Yerushalayim...

What happens when you have a good job, mentors you trust, and a clear path forward — and you walk away anyway? Shlomo Ashkanazy (Co-Director, WashU JLIC) and Ami Yunger (COO, Mizrachi Canada) both built careers in the...

Ami Tobin was faced with a descision: He had a week full of 8 hour shifts, guarding an outpost in miluim. How was he going to use that time? Watch the NBA Finals? Or something more meaningful? He pulled out his notes...

What does Hashem actually want from us, a life of total immersion in Torah, or engagement with the world?This is one of the oldest machlokos in Jewish thought. And Rav Rafi Dembovsky was torn. He struggled with the...