Bina: A Better Together Podcast https://www.binapod.com/ en © 2026 Contra Costa Midrasha. All rights reserved. Welcome to Bina: A Better Together Podcast, created by the students and staff of Contra Costa Midrasha. This series is all about bringing Jewish teens and elders together to share stories, ask honest questions, and learn from one another across generations and life experiences. Each episode features a meaningful conversation about Jewish identity, heritage, belonging, purpose, resilience, and community. Through personal stories and shared reflection, Bina empowers our community’s youth in exploring the wisdom that comes with lived experience and the fresh perspective that comes through the eyes of a younger generation. Inspired by Contra Costa Midrasha’s Better Together program, Bina is creating space for connection across ages and backgrounds. These are warm, thoughtful conversations about memory, tradition, growth, and what it means to shape the future together. To Learn More or Contact Us, Visit: www.binapod.com  To Support the Pod, Contact: shalom@binapod.com  Bina is a Contra Costa Midrasha and Human Content Production https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b1ea33c2-2ded-11f1-b545-bff819aefcbe/image/f2c6c0afc9b00da5a509d9235fa79f3f.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress Bina: A Better Together Podcast https://www.binapod.com/ no episodic A Better Together Podcast Contra Costa Midrasha Welcome to Bina: A Better Together Podcast, created by the students and staff of Contra Costa Midrasha. This series is all about bringing Jewish teens and elders together to share stories, ask honest questions, and learn from one another across generations and life experiences. Each episode features a meaningful conversation about Jewish identity, heritage, belonging, purpose, resilience, and community. Through personal stories and shared reflection, Bina empowers our community’s youth in exploring the wisdom that comes with lived experience and the fresh perspective that comes through the eyes of a younger generation. Inspired by Contra Costa Midrasha’s Better Together program, Bina is creating space for connection across ages and backgrounds. These are warm, thoughtful conversations about memory, tradition, growth, and what it means to shape the future together. To Learn More or Contact Us, Visit: www.binapod.com  To Support the Pod, Contact: shalom@binapod.com  Bina is a Contra Costa Midrasha and Human Content Production Welcome to Bina: A Better Together Podcast, created by the students and staff of Contra Costa Midrasha. This series is all about bringing Jewish teens and elders together to share stories, ask honest questions, and learn from one another across generations and life experiences.

Each episode features a meaningful conversation about Jewish identity, heritage, belonging, purpose, resilience, and community. Through personal stories and shared reflection, Bina empowers our community’s youth in exploring the wisdom that comes with lived experience and the fresh perspective that comes through the eyes of a younger generation.

Inspired by Contra Costa Midrasha’s Better Together program, Bina is creating space for connection across ages and backgrounds. These are warm, thoughtful conversations about memory, tradition, growth, and what it means to shape the future together.


To Learn More or Contact Us, Visit: www.binapod.com 

To Support the Pod, Contact: shalom@binapod.com 


Bina is a Contra Costa Midrasha and Human Content Production

]]> Contra Costa Midrasha shalom@binapod.com Work You Love and Lives You Shape, with Sheldon and Thelma In this episode, Yarden Crane, Aviva Feder, and Nolan Valdivia sit down with longtime Better Together participants and lifelong learners Sheldon Schwartz and Thelma Bronet for an intimate, multi-generational conversation about Jewish values, identity, and growing up. Together they explore what they wish they’d known as teenagers, how to navigate a “winding road” of careers and life choices, the balance of risk versus utility, the importance of choosing friends wisely, and why you don’t need your life figured out at 17 or even at 70.  The group also wrestles honestly with antisemitism in schools today, sharing painful personal stories, the emotional toll of hateful symbols and “jokes,” and the urgent need for better Holocaust education and true allyship.  Thank you to our funders: Sinai & Synapses, Contra Costa Jewish Community Center, an anonymous prominent national foundation, and the wider Midrasha community for making this show possible. If you want to donate so we can make more episodes or have questions for our team, email shalom@binapod.com or visit binapod.com. Mon, 11 May 2026 16:54:00 -0000 full 2 Contra Costa Midrasha In this episode, Yarden Crane, Aviva Feder, and Nolan Valdivia sit down with longtime Better Together participants and lifelong learners Sheldon Schwartz and Thelma Bronet for an intimate, multi-generational conversation about Jewish values, identity, and growing up. Together they explore what they wish they’d known as teenagers, how to navigate a “winding road” of careers and life choices, the balance of risk versus utility, the importance of choosing friends wisely, and why you don’t need your life figured out at 17 or even at 70.  The group also wrestles honestly with antisemitism in schools today, sharing painful personal stories, the emotional toll of hateful symbols and “jokes,” and the urgent need for better Holocaust education and true allyship.  Thank you to our funders: Sinai & Synapses, Contra Costa Jewish Community Center, an anonymous prominent national foundation, and the wider Midrasha community for making this show possible. If you want to donate so we can make more episodes or have questions for our team, email shalom@binapod.com or visit binapod.com. In this episode, Yarden Crane, Aviva Feder, and Nolan Valdivia sit down with longtime Better Together participants and lifelong learners Sheldon Schwartz and Thelma Bronet for an intimate, multi-generational conversation about Jewish values, identity, and growing up. Together they explore what they wish they’d known as teenagers, how to navigate a “winding road” of careers and life choices, the balance of risk versus utility, the importance of choosing friends wisely, and why you don’t need your life figured out at 17 or even at 70. 

The group also wrestles honestly with antisemitism in schools today, sharing painful personal stories, the emotional toll of hateful symbols and “jokes,” and the urgent need for better Holocaust education and true allyship. 

Thank you to our funders: Sinai & Synapses, Contra Costa Jewish Community Center, an anonymous prominent national foundation, and the wider Midrasha community for making this show possible.

If you want to donate so we can make more episodes or have questions for our team, email shalom@binapod.com or visit binapod.com.

]]> 3656 Rebellion and Resilience in the Life of Hana Berger Moran In this episode, we sit down with Hana Berger Moran, a Holocaust survivor, chemist, and beloved member of the Better Together community. Born in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945 and saved through a series of extraordinary acts of courage and luck, Hana shares her mother’s bravery, her own journey from survival to a scientific career, and her lifelong commitment to giving back. We discuss Jewish identity today, facing antisemitism in high school, the power of education and great teachers, and the guiding lesson of Hana’s favorite saying, “If I am not for myself, who will be?” Thank you to our funders: Sinai & Synapses, Contra Costa Jewish Community Center, an anonymous prominent national foundation, and the wider Midrasha community for making this show possible. If you want to donate so we can make more episodes or have questions for our team, email shalom@binapod.com or visit binapod.com. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0000 full 1 Contra Costa Midrasha In this episode, we sit down with Hana Berger Moran, a Holocaust survivor, chemist, and beloved member of the Better Together community. Born in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945 and saved through a series of extraordinary acts of courage and luck, Hana shares her mother’s bravery, her own journey from survival to a scientific career, and her lifelong commitment to giving back. We discuss Jewish identity today, facing antisemitism in high school, the power of education and great teachers, and the guiding lesson of Hana’s favorite saying, “If I am not for myself, who will be?” Thank you to our funders: Sinai & Synapses, Contra Costa Jewish Community Center, an anonymous prominent national foundation, and the wider Midrasha community for making this show possible. If you want to donate so we can make more episodes or have questions for our team, email shalom@binapod.com or visit binapod.com. In this episode, we sit down with Hana Berger Moran, a Holocaust survivor, chemist, and beloved member of the Better Together community. Born in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945 and saved through a series of extraordinary acts of courage and luck, Hana shares her mother’s bravery, her own journey from survival to a scientific career, and her lifelong commitment to giving back. We discuss Jewish identity today, facing antisemitism in high school, the power of education and great teachers, and the guiding lesson of Hana’s favorite saying, “If I am not for myself, who will be?”

Thank you to our funders: Sinai & Synapses, Contra Costa Jewish Community Center, an anonymous prominent national foundation, and the wider Midrasha community for making this show possible.

If you want to donate so we can make more episodes or have questions for our team, email shalom@binapod.com or visit binapod.com.

]]> 3566 no New Stories, Old Wisdom: Welcome to Bina! What happens when the past meets the future? Welcome to Bina, a new series where we pull up a chair and bridge the gap between generations. Created by the students and staff of Contra Costa Midrasha, this podcast is all about the magic that happens when Jewish teens and elders sit down to truly listen to one another. Spanning generations, these episodes dive into reflections on heritage and resilience, alongside honest questions about purpose and belonging. Whether it’s the wisdom of lived experience or the fresh perspective of youth, we believe we are Better Together. Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:34:00 -0000 trailer Contra Costa Midrasha What happens when the past meets the future? Welcome to Bina, a new series where we pull up a chair and bridge the gap between generations. Created by the students and staff of Contra Costa Midrasha, this podcast is all about the magic that happens when Jewish teens and elders sit down to truly listen to one another. Spanning generations, these episodes dive into reflections on heritage and resilience, alongside honest questions about purpose and belonging. Whether it’s the wisdom of lived experience or the fresh perspective of youth, we believe we are Better Together. What happens when the past meets the future?

Welcome to Bina, a new series where we pull up a chair and bridge the gap between generations. Created by the students and staff of Contra Costa Midrasha, this podcast is all about the magic that happens when Jewish teens and elders sit down to truly listen to one another.

Spanning generations, these episodes dive into reflections on heritage and resilience, alongside honest questions about purpose and belonging. Whether it’s the wisdom of lived experience or the fresh perspective of youth, we believe we are Better Together.

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