613 Books Podcast

613 Books Podcast

“613 Books” podcast spotlights a different author every week in an interview hosted by veteran broadcast and podcast producer Heather Dean. If you love to read, or write, books geared to Jewish readers, this podcast is for you! After her extraordinary 14-year career broadcasting celebrity interviews for MTV, E! Entertainment Television and Associated Press (AP) Radio, Heather upgraded her life and career, which is centered on Torah values. Interested in advertising your product or service to a Jewish audience? Heather offers a fantastic 4-Episode Sponsorship Package of this podcast, For details, contact Heather Dean Productions: http://www.heatherdeanproductions.com/new-contact/ You can buy your copy of Heather’s fascinating and inspiring memoir, "Searching for Heather Dean" on Amazon.

Episodes

Raquel Kirszenbaum and her Book Stop Hurting, Start Healing Encore Part Two

October 22, 2025 • 32 mins
This episode of “613 Books” podcast, is PART 2 of producer/host Heather Dean’s interview with author and international speaker, Raquel Kirszenbaum about her new book, “Stop Hurting, Start Healing.” This is both a self-help book and memoir which takes readers on her dynamic quest from despair and difficulty to resilience and happiness. Raquel addresses many important lessons learned based on authentic Jewish wisdom including: how ...
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Raquel Kirszenbaum and her Book Stop Hurting, Start Healing Encore Part One

October 15, 2025 • 33 mins
On this episode of “613 Books” podcast, producer/host Heather Dean interviews author and international speaker, Raquel Kirszenbaum about her book, “Stop Hurting, Start Healing.” This is both a self-help book and memoirs which takes readers on her dynamic quest from despair and difficulty to resilience and happiness. From the very first page, Raquel’s powerful guide envelopes us in a warm embrace, leading us through the transformat...
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Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz and his book Know What to Answer When Someone Challenges Your Faith: Tishrei

September 21, 2025 • 23 mins
On this episode of “613 Books” podcast, producer Heather Dean interviews Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz, the Founder of Jews for Judaism. Rabbi Kravitz’s book, “Know What to Answer When Someone Challenges Your Faith.” In this interview, Rabbi Kravitz addresses several Tishrei-related topics from “Know What to Answer,” giving us much to ponder as we journey into the New Year. Jews for Judaism strengthens and preserves Jewish identity by...
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Rabbi Levi Shmotkin and his book Letters for Life - Interview Part 2

September 16, 2025 • 19 mins
This is Part 2 of “613 Books” podcast, producer Heather Dean’s interview with Chasidic scholar and educator, Rabbi Levi Shmotkin, author of “Letters for Life: Guidance for Emotional Wellness from the Lubavitcher Rebbe.” In the universal quest for coping with the inevitable challenges that threaten our peace of mind, and after years of studying the Rebbe’s vast correspondence, conducting interviews, and sifting through the archives...
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Rabbi Levi Shmotkin and his book Letters for Life

September 10, 2025 • 24 mins
On this episode of “613 Books” podcast, producer Heather Dean interviews Chasidic scholar and educator, Rabbi Levi Shmotkin, author of “Letters for Life: Guidance for Emotional Wellness from the Lubavitcher Rebbe.” In the universal quest for coping with the inevitable challenges that threaten our peace of mind, and after years of studying the Rebbe’s vast correspondence, conducting interviews, and sifting through the archives, Rab...
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Rivkah Lambert Adler and her book Adrift Among the Nations Interview Part Two

September 2, 2025 • 23 mins
This episode of “613 Books” podcast is PART TWO of producer Heather Dean’s interview with Dr. Rivkah Lambert Adler, a writer, book reviewer and adult educator whose most recently-published book is called “Adrift Among the Nations: Between Christianity and Torah.” This is a book about leaving Jesus by Dr. Lambert Adler who is a journalist, an educator, and an Orthodox Jew. In this interview she speaks about writing this book specif...
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Rivkah Lambert Adler and her book Adrift Among the Nations

August 26, 2025 • 22 mins
On this episode of “613 Books” podcast, producer Heather Dean interviews Rivkah Lambert Adler, a writer, book reviewer and adult educator whose most recently-published book is called “Adrift Among the Nations: Between Christianity and Torah.” This is a book about leaving Jesus by Dr. Adler who is a journalist, an educator, and an Orthodox Jew. In this interview she speaks about writing this book specifically, and her many years of...
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Miriam Walfish and her book Bubby Karp and the Mystery at Ponderosa Pines

August 12, 2025 • 30 mins
On this episode of “613 Books” podcast, producer Heather Dean interviews Miriam Walfish, whose most recently-published book is called “Bubby Karp and the Mystery at Ponderosa Pines.” When the main character, ‘Bubby Karp,’ agrees to fill in for the cook at Ponderosa Pines, she expects a fun-filled winter break with her grandchildren. Instead, they encounter disturbing nighttime noises, confusing clues, and suspicious strangers. Th...
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Rabbi Irwin Katsof and his book Living Dangerously

July 29, 2025 • 37 mins
On this episode of “613 Books” podcast, producer Heather Dean interviews Rabbi Irwin Katsof, whose most recently-published book is called “Living Dangerously: My Struggle to Get Rich without Losing My Soul.” Rabbi Irwin Katsof thought had everything figured out by the time he was 35. He was driven by an insatiable hunger for financial success and tired of watching from the sidelines as others built empires, so he made a dangerous ...
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Rabbi Nachman Seltzer and his book Missiles, Miracles and Mesiras Nefesh Part Two

July 22, 2025 • 24 mins
This episode of “613 Books” podcast is PART TWO of producer Heather Dean’s interview with Rabbi Nachman Seltzer. He is the bestselling author of well over fifty books, many of which are biographies, novels, collections of inspirational stories, and books about Jewish history. Rabbi Seltzer’s most recently-published books is called “Missiles, Miracles and Mesiras Nefesh,” which explores the war that began on October 7th, on what sh...
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Rabbi Nachman Seltzer and his book Miracles, Missiles and Mesiras Nefesh Part One

July 15, 2025 • 21 mins
On this episode of “613 Books” podcast, producer Heather Dean interviews Rabbi Nachman Seltzer, a bestselling author of well over fifty (!) books, many of which are biographies, novels, collections of inspirational stories, and books about Jewish history. Rabbi Seltzer’s most recently-published books is called “Miracles, Missiles and Mesiras Nefesh,” which explores the war that began on October 7th, on what should have been one of...
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Kichels Creators Bracha Stein and Chani Judowitz Kichel Collection 4 Interview 2 - Encore

July 8, 2025 • 25 mins
On this encore episode of “613 Books” Podcast, Producer-Host Heather Dean’s featured guests, “The Kichels” co-creators, Bracha Stein and Chani Judowitz, are back on the podcast, this time to take a deep dive into Kichel family Dynamics a well as feedback – praise and criticism – for their popular comic strip. In addition to publishing Mishpacha magazine’s enormously popular weekly comics, The Kichels, this dynamic duo has publishe...
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Kichels Creators Bracha Stein and Chani Judowitz Kichel Collection 4 Interview 1 - Encore

July 1, 2025 • 18 mins
On this encore episode of “613 Books” Podcast, Producer-Host Heather Dean’s featured guests are Bracha Stein and Chani Judowitz, the co-creators of Mishpacha magazine’s enormously popular weekly comics, The Kichels, as well as four compilations of The Kichels in book form. The fourth volume in this bestselling series, The Kichel Collection 4 is their newest release and it features over eighty pages of Kichel comics and is packed w...
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Summer 2025 Book Reading List with Naomi Journo

June 25, 2025 • 27 mins
On this special edition of “613 Books” podcast, producer and host Heather Dean discusses the Summer reading list of her featured guest Naomi Journo. Naomi is the publisher of Her Tribe Magazine, a growing global sisterhood in print & digital, dedicated to celebrating Jewish life through woman-to-woman stories, inspiration, and shared wisdom. Naomi is also the founder of Hatzlacha Solutions, she helps Jewish women, businesses, and ...
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Sarah Shapiro and Stories of Our Lives

June 17, 2025 • 30 mins
In this episode of “613 Books” Podcast, producer-host Heather Dean speaks with Sarah Shapiro about her recent literary offering,” Stories of Our Lives.” “Stories of Our Lives” brings together the choicest of pieces of short stories and poems in two enticing volumes. A testament to the perspicacious eye of its editor, and to the artistry of a hundred writers from around the globe. “Stories of Our Lives” is a feast for the soul and...
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What’s on Authors’ Reading Tables!? Part 6

June 10, 2025 • 9 mins
Read any good books lately? On this episode of “613 Books” podcast, producer and host Heather Dean welcomes back several authors to the podcast, this time to get their answers to the question, “What’s on your reading table?” First we’ll hear from Devorah Kigel, the author of her newly-released “Marry a Mensch.” Heather also checks in with Rifka Lebowitz, the author of “(title)” for her reading table selection, and later on with a...
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Esther Kurtz and her book Second Thoughts - Encore

June 3, 2025 • 27 mins
Mishpacha columnist, podcaster and workshop leader Esther Kurtz is back on “613 Books” podcast with a fresh, new interview; this time to discuss her new book, “Second Chances.” It’s a terrific collection of short stories, each one containing life conundrums we can either relate to or gain insights from, with multi-layered characters and surprising plotlines. Whether it’s shalom bayis, newfound wealth, family power struggles and p...
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Special Episode Writers on Writing 2

May 27, 2025 • 11 mins
It’s a special Writers on Writing episode of “613 Books” podcast where some of host Heather Dean’s favorite authors are speaking about crafting their written work. Think of it as a brief journey inside the minds of a variety of NONFICTION writers to find out a bit about how they churn out the words we read and become inspired, or informed, or just entertained by. This episode’s featured guests are: · Award winning author Judy Gr...
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Miriam Schweitzer and her Cholent and Chadors

May 21, 2025 • 32 mins
Miriam Schweitzer, a Chassidic woman who lives in Antwerp, Belgium is the featured guest on this episode of “613 Books” podcast, produced and hosted by Heather Dean. Miriam lives with Multiple Sclerosis, and she nonetheless lives an active, busy life and she recently published a memoir that she calls: “Cholent and Chadors: A Chassidic woman's experiences in a multi-cultural workplace.” Although her job at a local daycare center w...
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Barbara Bensoussan and her book Seven Blessings and a Murder

May 13, 2025 • 19 mins
Author and Mishpacha magazine writer Barbara Bensoussan is back on “613 Books” podcast, this time to discuss her new book, “Seven Blessings and a Murder.” This is a thrilling novel featuring a colorful assortment of family members from England, France, and the U.S. who converge in Jerusalem for the wedding. Some of the relatives are devoutly religious and some are casually traditional. Some are wealthy, and some are cash-strapped....
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