Épisodes

  • Meet Opie: TWR Guest Who Went from College to the Streets to Grad School
    Nov 17 2025

    Grateful to move forward from the government shutdown, Rabbi Joshua speaks today with Opie, a woman in her 20s, who has a more unusual story than most guests who come to The Women's Room. She opens up about her early life in Tennessee, attending college, how personal challenges led her to California, where she found herself living in her car. You will have to listen to the episode to hear the rest of her story!

    Closing music: Eric Clapton

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    38 min
  • SNAP CUTS BEGINNING! A conversation with FID Food Pantry Director, Tim Nistler
    Oct 31 2025

    On this episode, Rabbi Joshua is joined by Tim Nistler for a conversation about the impending cuts to SNAP benefits and how it is affecting our food pantry community. Tim shares the staggering new record of households in one week, and speaks about how you can help us serve those most in need.

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    24 min
  • Money for Ballrooms But Not SNAP
    Oct 23 2025

    Rabbi Joshua checks in on Day 22 of the government shutdown. On November 1st, without an agreement to reopen, millions of people, mostly children, will lose their SNAP benefits, which are commonly known as food stamps or EBT cards. Yet, there is apparently money for other things...

    CBS News article referenced in the episode

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    17 min
  • Government Shutdown and Funding Housing
    Oct 10 2025

    In this episode, Rabbi Joshua checks in on day 9 of the government shutdown to highlight how this will potentially begin to affect the most vulnerable in our country, and how the current budget proposal includes sweeping cuts to the Continuum of Care funding for housing. In addition, he shares some thoughts from recent books on homelessness and poverty, including a clip from scholar Matthew Desmond. Listen and share!

    National Alliance to End Homelessness

    Matthew Desmond on The Jon Stewart Show

    Closing music: Eric Clapton

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    18 min
  • 2025 - 7 Trying to Count People: Conversation with Jennifer O'Reilly Jones on 2025 Homeless Count
    Sep 12 2025

    Today Rabbi Joshua is joined by Pasadena Housing Department's Homelessness Coordinator, Jenni O-Reilly Jones, as they discuss the results from both the 2024 Annual Homeless Count and the 2025 Point in Time Count. There are some positives to report, and of course, many challenges to overcome.

    Read the full presentations here:

    https://www.pasadenahomelesscount.org/

    Pasadena City Services Line (for resources)

    626-744-7311

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    34 min
  • 2025 - 6 Fleeing the Flames, Losing Everything: A Conversation with Jennifer
    Aug 1 2025

    Jennifer is a single mom of two children who all fled for their lives on January 7th. Along with her parents, sister and their families, who all lived together in Altadena, they lost home. Jennifer talks with Rabbi Joshua about her life pre-fire and what has happened since that harrowing night.

    Jennifer and her kids, after 7 months of moving around from motels to airbnbs, are now settled in a new apartment in Pasadena, the first people in Friends In Deed's new time limited subsidy program (TLS), which offers families up to 12 months rent to help them get back on their feet, along with case management and ongoing support.

    We are grateful to Jennifer for sharing her story with us.


    Closing music: Eric Clapton

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    40 min
  • 2025 - 5 Eaton Fire Update: Tish Inong and Street Outreach
    Jun 20 2025

    Today, Rabbi Joshua speaks with the Director of Street Outreach and Housing, Tish Inong, LCSW, to hear about the ways her team has been supporting those impacted by the Eaton fire, as well as a few exciting partnerships that are offering new aspects to the program, including Kaiser School of Medicine and Grandview Foundation a local organization providing addiction recovery programs and sober living.

    Grandview Foundation

    Kaiser School of Medicine


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    30 min
  • 2025 - 4 Meet our New Strategic Plan!
    May 14 2025

    On this episode, Rabbi Joshua shares in depth about the new strategic plan that is guiding the work of Friends In Deed for the next three years. And, as a special addition, he is playing some music in between segments of the show, so look forward to that new feature!

    Read the FID Strategic Plan:

    https://friendsindeedpas.org/strategic-plan/

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    33 min