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NHL playoffs: Edmonton Oilers? More like the Oy-lers

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JL;DR SUMMARY Menschwarmers welcomes Matthew Leibl, former sports radio host turned podcaster, to discuss Jewish presence in sports, particularly highlighting the Edmonton Oilers with two Jewish players and his personal journey from sports journalism to rabbinical studies. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Jewish AthletesJewish Representation In SportsJewish GolfersSports JournalismEdmonton OilersNhl PlayoffsMatthew LeiblWinnipeg JetsBaseball Road TripNew Cjn Podcast

Places mentioned

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"But maybe not tonight. It's great to be here. Welcome to the Mantra Warmers. I love it. I love the name of your podcast. This is great."
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
"I'm living in Winnipeg, where I'm a freelance rabbi."
British Columbia, Canada
"while the New Jersey devils did, make the playoffs, both Hughes brothers seem seasons to be, if not over close to it, you know, Luke could make a miraculous, recovery and play again tomorrow before I say it, but he has given how hard he hit a shoulder the other night and left the game. Didn't come back. Didn't play in the next game. Hard to see him playing again."
United States
"and the other panelist with me is Yadita Eisenstadt, who is a recovering professor, she says, and now, like, studying to become a rabbi, Torontonian, living in D.C."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"Used to be Bonjour Rai, but they've reimagined it now. And the host is Avi Feingold, who's, I guess, a Montrealer living in Chicago."
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
"And I remember going down to see games with my Zeta in Minneapolis."
Minnesota, United States
"But I actually grew up on a very healthy dose of kind of Minnesota twins from the sixties and seventies lore, because to drive from Winnipeg to mini six, seven hours and my Zeta and my uncles, like in the sixties, there were no, no blue Jays."
Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland
"On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz comes an unprecedented exhibition about one of history's darkest moments."
Ontario, Canada
"at youth we are recording this tomorrow it'll probably come out we are recording this on wednesday it'll probably be over you know by the time you all hear this."
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Retrieved 2025-04-25 05:30:46 UTC
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