Hazel Kahan

Latest Episodes
Malek Jandali: Syrian-American composer, pianist, activist
Syrian-American composer, pianist and humanitarian activist Malek Jandali talks about his international mission to preserve and protect Syrias rich embattled heritage and to build peace through music
Adam Wilson: Farming and feeding in the gift economy
In the first days of the pandemic, farmer and writer Adam Wilson was offered $500k of inherited family money by a local community member to disentangle 113 acres of upstate New York grassland from the
Beth Young: Eyes on the East End 2024
Beth Young, journalist-founder of the East End Beacon website and newspaper and 13th-generation member of one of the North Forks founding families, talks to Hazel Kahan on North Fork Works examines t
Shane Burley reports on Jewish educational organizations purging their anti-Zionist professional employees
Shane Burley, Oregon-based journalist, author and filmmaker, talks about Anti-Zionist Workers Are Being Purged From Jewish Institutions Across the US, his months-long investigation based on interviews
Rebekah Berndt on magical bookshops and their eccentric owners
Rebekah Berndt, writer, spiritual director and psychic reader, talks to us from Charleston, South Carolina about her love of weird and magical bookshops, their often eccentric owners, how she cares fo
Steve Wick, author and journalist, on uncovering the truth and telling the whole story
Steve Wick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, formerly of Newsday and more recently editor of the Suffolk Times, talks about his earlier work, two new upcoming books, the importance of local
Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht: organic farmer and organic farming advocate
Riverhead farmer Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht talks about the twenty years of growing her Garden of Eve Farm and advocating for organic farmers, most recently as Northeast Region Farmer Representative of OFA,
Nick Duffell: how British boarding schools shape children, leaders and the country itself
Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex
Nancy DePas Reinertsen and Ralph Reinertsen: ReWilding the North Fork
Nancy DePas Reinertsen and Ralph Reinertsen, retired educators who have recently launched the North Fork branch of ReWild Long Island with Sustainable Gardening at Custer Preserve in Southold, describ
Jeff Halper: Israel’s weaponization of humiliation
Jeff Halper is an Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a