A Hasidic woman’s life in the Country | In Conversation with Comedian Leah Forster
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Baily is a character of a Hasidic woman who spends her summers in the bungalow colonies in upstate New York. In this episode, she shares the trials and tribulations of the experience. This segment is comedy, in the great tradition of the Catskills being a place for comedy. Leah Forster is a brilliant comedian who has spent years entertaining Hasidic women before she left the fold and pivoted to perform for a larger audience.
Check out my other videos on the Jewish Catskills and my earlier interview with Leah about her career.
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👉 Many thanks to the brilliant street photographer HasidiminUsa for letting me use his photos in this video. Please check out his work on Instagram here: / hasidiminusa
👉 Please Find Leah Forster on the internet here:
RUclips: @lilatunes
Tiktok: / hellowhellowleah
Instagram: / leahforster
Facebook: / leah.forster.10
It is so inspirational to see how much these two women love, appreciate, respect, and admire the world they came from.
I personally find Leah’s honesty and searching very inspiring.
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The way she switches between reality and fiction is amazing and she has a natural talent.
Yes!
This episode with Leah is the most hysterically funny ever! Not to mention it’s totally worth Frieda’s joyful constant cracking up reaction. Such a complete Delight!!!Shkoyakh!!
Leah is so funny! I really did not know that this episode would be her on a roll but what a fun surprise and what laughs!
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn superb!!
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@@FriedaVizelBrooklynyou know it's funny.......not being from chassidish crowd at all......many litvishe/yeshivish or even more modern (very or just a bit) also went/go to the country all the years. Bungalows are not the way they used to be (homes, or much more upscale bungalows albeit with social setting like a colony, as I'm sure you know), but my friends ALLLL tell me that the fun was halved when the infrastructure upgraded. All their best memories were from sharing one room with 5 sibs (okay not chassidish) with holes in the walls (and I'm not even talking about shleppy people) but that was the way the country was. The more it was like camp the BETTER the memories!
@@FriedaVizelBrooklynlitvishe camps dont even start these days until about 5th or 6th grade......maybe one (Bnos) starts earlier. I don't know why. Kids used to go to Sternberg/Bnos/others from 3rd or so. Now it's only staff kids that young. I think they found it wasn't working for younger kids.......but seems to me those kids in camp from a young age we're having a blast......but maybe didn't work for more than we realized in our perspective.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklynshe is so right......even from the litvishe perspective......that's prob PART of the reason why it changed. The gashmius increased and that's part of it but it's also the click away business.......that being cut off from stupidity and being in 'family camp' (mothers too!) was just awesome.......but'cha can't go back and that's the sad part. I so agree when the camps don't allow the kids to call home......what's calling home......supposed to wait on line for one pay phone......not call from all your counselors CELL PHONES!
I lived about 30 miles from Monticello. We would always pass the bungalow colonies going to Monticello. Fascinated by people wearing long clothes in the summer walking along the road. I was grade school age. I lived Las Vegas and there were people in the Community Kollel that lived nearby. In awe of their culture and commitment to their faith. Thank you for sharing a piece of my childhood as an outside observer from the backseat of our car.
Frieda thank you for sharing Leah with us! In believe this is the first time I’ve seen Leah and she is awesome! In had such a terrific time watching this segment. Thanks for sharing it with us !
I did another segment with her but she wasn’t in character. She has a ton of characters but I think Baily is the most well known.
I worked for years with the Hasidic community in the Catskills. I would go around to the bungalow colonies taking family photos. Great memories! Good times. Long days. I am writing this from South Fallsburg as I just came up today for a short stay. It is bustling here and growing every year.
fantastic!!! you must have stories!
This is the podcast of the year thanks a million
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Very funny ladies.
But my real message is I love you guys so much for sharing.
and thank you! wishing you a wonderful shabbes
Freida. You are so good at feeding her the lines and reacting as if you have rehearsed Your reactions are priceless. Leah is very funny
I enjoy her!
Raised in Harris NY. Schooled in Monticello. Left at 17. Glad to breathe the fresh air vicariously again.
Cheers, from the city of New York, to breathing fresh air vicariously. ahhh!
This is completely bonkers and I love it. 😂😂
😂😂😂 Leah just took me on a ride!
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn I think you did very well to (semi) hold it together 😂😂
I absolutely related to the entire "country " shpeil. That was my whole childhood and i loved every minute . As an adult i didn’t go , but i miss it every year . My mother was a different person those 2 months . It was a much simpler time and we were more than happy with it all. Im very blessed to have had such a wonderful experience. Ty Frieda and Leah for this episode
Thanks so much for the laughs. Especially needed now during politics and the insanity that goes with it.
You had me laughing from beginning to end. Laughter heals. Thank you! 😂
❤️💝 I love to laugh, so much joy…
Hilarious. Chasidic comedy. Love it.
yes who knew! hysterical!
Frieda, I absolutely enjoyed this episode. Leah is truly talented.
She’s a rare thing. Of the borscht belt greats if you ask me.
Can we petition to get Leah to open a RUclips channel??
Yes!!
I believe she does..
@@joyabramson3327 Leah is on instagram and tiktok and posts constantly
@@FriedaVizelBrooklynThanks, I’ll look for her on Instagram.
I tuned into this episode not knowing a thing about Leah believing Bailey was a real person & being totally enthralled by her. When she transformed from Bailey to Leah I was "wowed” and tickled pink! I went down the Leah rabbit hole watching her stories/reels and then following. Thank you Freida for this wonderful episode!
Priceless!!!! You made me laugh so much!
A Sunday with 58 minutes of smile.
Very fun. She provides a cultural insight into the "Hasidic" demografic. Comediens who have found success in this genre ("Fluffy", Tiffiny Hadish, etc.) translates into wider audience appeal. She is funny/humorous.
Yes with lots of bits into country life that are fun to learn about.
This was so funny!!! It turned a day of sadness into a day full of light and joy for me . Nothing like humor to turn things around,. I believe strongly that humor can touch the soul and heal. Its a real affirmation of Life and our shared humanity . Thank you;p both!!
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You've just brought pure light to my day. Thank you for sharing this.
I love this interview so much!Raised conservative but sent to summer camp from age 7 on. Also Love your wow Freida. Don’t change a bit.
Wow! 🤩 thanks really. I find myself getting self conscious in all sorts of ways and it’s nice to hear to just be myself.
Another episode that has exposed me to someone I’d never have known otherwise - thank you!
Thank you! Leah is a comedian for the books.
HYSTERICAL -- Thank you for this, Frieda -- really brightened my day.
I’m so happy to hear!
Another awesome interview. Under neath the humor lies so much love,respect, introspection, intelligence and ultimately acceptance- self acceptance as well as acceptance and compassion for the world you grew up in and May have left. I am amazed by both of you
Thanks so much for this wonderful comment, it’s so much appreciated.
That was fun! I used to visit my grandparents at a bungalow colony when I was young and loved it so much.
I"m crying!! 😅🤣🤣 Tell her I loved her skit where she plays the Polish housekeeper.
me too!!!
That started off her online fame
This is the funniest video I’ve watched ever! I’m a Lubavitcher and also grew up going to the country! So funny how so much resonated even though we’re different Hasidic sects!
Wow😢 minute 23 is my favorite part. When she elaborated on her friends lives and the values. It was really heart-wrenching.
Yes, I cut a short out of it because it was a very powerful moment for me.
Leah is hysterical❤❤❤
Two minutes into this video it felt like my mother was talking to me...😂😂😂😂 Such a Yente
I like your mother already!
Leah you are so authentic I love your humor
Great interview, Frieda! I remember going to a small concert where Leah preformed with kineret about 12 years ago when i was still single and visited my married sister in the "country" to help out while her "musband" wasn't there during the week. She such a fun comedian and i love her characters. Even more than that, i loved getting s glimpse of her true self in this interview. You did a great job bringing it out. It's sad to see the pain she's carrying (believe me, most of us carry some version of that in the chasidic community) though she seems to come alive when she goes back to being in those characters. It was a great blend between the real and the fake
thanks for making me laugh with your comment about your mother’s musband. Yes, there’s a pain I think that we’ve all inherited and Leah makes laughter of it which is a true gift. I had not heard of Kineret until recently on Raizy Fried’s Instagram.
@FriedaVizelBrooklyn interesting! I loved listening to her as a girl. Nowadays it's complicated with musband around
f'shore!
Im so sorry for whatever went wrong for you. I love you both and think it's beautiful how you can turn to your unique methods of dealing with those painful aspects while hanging on to the good times- Frieda with your sharing the beauty in the culture, leah with the parodies. It hurts me to know you left those communities because in truth orthodox judaism is true and you seem know it and therefore are hanging on in some way. Chasidism just wasnt the way for you. And it shouldn't have to be. Chasidism was meant for those choosing to take on more of their own volition, but in truth thats a dangerous choice if enforced because as you see it was too much for you. Hashem wants it to be pleasant. And the word chasid means those who go above what is required. If that is whats pleasant for some then by all means.
But it doesnt make regular orthodoxy false. Just wanted to put that out there. ❤❤❤@FriedaVizelBrooklyn
Har haminches.... oyyyyvey😂Im rolling this is so spot on alebit exaggerated for the comedy
I cannot 😂 I'm laughing straight through every word 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Thank you so much to both of you! Just brilliant , entertaining and truly - inspiring, to listen how two g'lungina , special women can still be, and ARE, connected to their life-source - the warm and wonderful heimisha warm community that nurtured them and where they stem from. Frieda, the fact that you so often acknowledge this is so much to your chein and credit!! Much brocho and continued hatzlucha to both of you !
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Leah is so funny! I listened to your first podcast with her. Thanks for having her again. What a great perspective both you and Leah bring to life.
This is so fantastic , And so relaxing thank you for making my summer better
This was one of your best interviews yet! Thank you for posting it!
It was a ball! Leah is so insightful it blows me away.
Hisss terrrr i cal…and informative!!!! I love seeing you laugh, Frida!!!
It was so joyful!
I couldn’t stop laughing!!! Leah is so funny. I have so enjoyed this whole series on the Catskills & the Jewish bungalow communities.
Another excellent interview.👍🌟
Stick around for more!!
Great episode.The time flew.I saw Funny Girl, and now I've seen a Funny Lady!
Never saw Funny Girl, I think it's time!
Hysterical when deep in the middle of Shira Devora character-ship we get a full blown sneeze directly from Baila 😂😂😂
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode
What an enjoyable and entertaining interview. Thank you, Frieda and Leah!
I loved every second of this interview. So funny and captivating!! I was also so invested in the pizza story, I wanted to know what happened next!! Baily is fab 😂
There is so much beauty in the community that is easily taken for granted and not appreciated when you grow up in it. And it’s true, especially you Frieda!!!you can’t get rid of your Hamishkait. Chut! That’s a word I haven’t heard in forever!,,💜
I am surprised there’s a fellow chut knower! it’s nice to be able to see the beauty you don’t see growing up. it’s a kind of gratitude that makes life nicer.
What is a hamishkait chut?
😂😂😂😂😂 I am laughing so hard! It's a flashback to SNL with Mike Meyers and Madonna with 'Barbara'. 😂😂😂😂😂
Love this! Thank you!
Frieda, this woman is absolute gold, and you have such a lovely rapport! You’ve brought us another star, the world needs women like Leah and Pearl. I just loved this, after I worked out that this ‘Byali’ woman who was a bit rude to Frieda ( how very dare she!) was actually Leah!! It was such a lovely surprise and so funny. Thankyou, I am just loving your Catskills series. You are doing really important work memorialising this special place, culture and time.
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That caught me off guard. She did a great job and excellent interview. "The Holy Sa-Bath" had me hysterical. I have to use this next week. LOL
Good luck, let us know how it goes over!! 😅
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn 🤣Oh it won't. Leah is a breath of fresh air funny as can be. Thank you for having her on.
God Bless you both. Such a funny, lovely, lightheaded video. 3 cheers to Frieda & Leah!
I hope Pearl gets to see it. ❤😘
Me too! I will hopefully call pearl tonight!
My face hurts from laughter! What a great interview! Thanks Frieda and Leah - I needed that!
Robert, laughing together is so good for us! 😁
this is so great!! thanks so much! Leah, you are brilliant.
Absolutely hilarious. I did enjoy this. 😂
This is so funny! I could listen to her for days! In The Netherlands we had an actress, Wieteke van Dort, who was born and partly raised in the former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. When she was in her 30s and already an accomplished actress in Holland, she developed a character called Tante Lien (Aunty Eileen), an elderly Indo (= Indonesian-Dutch mixed blood) lady, who talked very funny stuff and stories in a mixed Indo-Dutch patois called petjoh. Unfortunately she passed away last month aged 81 and we miss her very much. When I see the Bayla woman it reminds me of Tante Lien, but then the Chassidic version of her. She is the Chassidic Jewish Tante Lien and it's lovely! Of course these two cultural backgrounds are completely different, but the types are much alike. It's funny and typical and beautiful. I hope Leah will make people laugh for many years to come!!!: :DDD
Oh what fun this has been😂 .. thankyou so so much!!!!
This is great comedy - yet real
For so many of us growing up
W post Holocaust heimish great parents
She has been an awesome guest 😊
yes, this segment was not what I thought it would be and it was so much more fun than I expected.
Am in Dublin, Ireland laughing my bloody head off….a hoot!!!
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Thanks a lot guys. Now all I hear my co worker say all day is “WOW” 😅
I’m so sorry but the same thing happened to me 😂😂😅
I never paid attention until now lol. It’s so funny though. Also how do I become a member as I see some videos are members only.
Fun episode!!! Had me laughing the entire time. Freeda this was a good one. I like the “wooooow” the “what else” 😂❤😂
What else 😭😂😃
Leah is amazing I love all her get ups her mother was also very funny
Leah is so funny and straightforward.
I think the accent is influenced by Hungarian, which is where many of the Chassidim came from originally.
Frieda, I think you always have the appropriate reaction. Including Wow. Your reactions are open and honest. Your lack of guile is what so many of us find irresistible. Wow! Although if you could see your way to sprinkle a little bit more Yiddish, with translation, that would be very nice:-)
I will try. Your words mean a lot.
Loved this!!
So glad to hear!
Amazing kosher comedy, so many laughs!
As an aside, 4th grade was a perfectly normal age to go to camp in my modern orthodox community.
WOWWWW😂😂😂, so much talent!!! Seriously!❤
Frieda I love your cute laugh. I don’t understand any of this but your guest seem very fun. Keep laughing.
Leah is a gem 💎!
Thank you Frieda and Leah ! That was so wonderful and a lot of deep insight too, the highlight of my weekend. I love the business idea of Fr’Uber 🤣
someone should get rich!
I feel her emotions come through. As a man I can relate as I’m highly sensitive and I feel like to an extent men also feel some of the same feelings but don’t share it.
I love your videos, you bring so much warmth and joy to people❤❤❤
Thank you so much! 🙏💕
I needed to watch this so much, oh my days I have laughed so much x
Leah you're wonderful! I'm not in the country anymore (I was in a different country - Loch Sheldrake) and I miss it so much! I still regret giving it up.
When my kids were little, we used to have the ice cream truck come, and they still sing the song from it "It's cool and sweet / and fun to eat / oh please oh please oh please buy me an ice cream treat / a bracha I'll say / and eat it right away / oh please oh please oh please buy me an ice cream treat."
great episode!!! thank you
Leah is great! So smart and talented!❤
🎄🎄🌳❤💜💙🩵🌈😎 FRIEDA AND LEAH ~ THANK YOU🌴🌴🌴🎄🎄🌳🌴🩵💙❤💜💙
Best video I have seen on your channel! Reminds me of my Mother and Aunties.
You girls are hilarious bringing back all those delicious old memories I was laughing hysterically ... They don't make it anymore no 9"-13" bakaleh !!! Grocery on premises was really a luxury wow those days are almost now gone .they are replacing it today with fancy house such a shame .the concept of bungalows are almost gone and ladies schmoozing with it too.by the way the social climate just moved into the city. I live in bp and on shabbes I saw in many places women in a circle schmoozing so possible that the country concept is gone so they moved it back into the city for the summer.was FUN watching u girls.thank u 😅
Very entertaining ! Hilarious! Thanks for the laugh! Just wanna make you aware that making fun of halacha is like making fun of Hashem Himself Who gave us these halachos. Klal Yisroel is facing terrible danger and we can never afford to anger Him, especially now. Rather, do something to make Him happy as a merit for us to be saved...
When I was in elementary school living in Brooklyn I asked my parents if I could go to summer camp. I was told that only Jewish boys went to summer camp. LOL
That's so sad!
@@FriedaVizelBrooklynI like to think I’m more enlightened than they were. Unfortunately there’s still too much of this. I think your work helps to alleviate prejudice.
we had the "chut man" in New Square too, omg. I had so many hair bows when I was little from the "chut man" good memories
I’m plotzing. For sure de best. Kenayna hora
This was great...it's so hard to tell what's real and what's comedy.
Everything is real and everything is comedy!
Genius , i was crying with laughter . Its such affectionate interview .
I even didn‘t finish to watch, thank you both of you this is hilarious, my belly is hurting 😂❤️
LOVE HER!!!
Great insights. 2 amazing ladies❤
This was a fun interview! 😂 I'm glad the other one was short notice cancelled:). But hopefully you can get that one in at some point as well.
yeah would you believe how well it worked out 😂
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn yea...worked out great! 😃
ha ha, Monticello and Fallsburg are 2 different countries. I enjoyed the video!! 🙂🙂
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I'm having such a laugh.
Leah is really funny.
Fun and informative at the same time. Thank you Ladies!
I adore you both, and enjoyed this thoroughly
Thanks to both of you for doing this. It was really funny. There are so many levels to some of the things she said. 😹 Loved it. 👏
This was beyond !!!
When she compared not getting invited to pizza to churban beis hamikdash 😂
lol!!
@@FriedaVizelBrooklynhappens to be I also grew up summering in south fallsburg at a secular mostly Russian jewish bungalow colony (now I am a BT) and had a very similar experience. There is something magic in the air up there!
Brilliant!
I lived ten yrs on a big Midwest lake in what had been summer rental for city Jews. It is like motel but each unit has a kitchen. Still in its original state of completely knotty pine new owners eventually renovated it. Originally had a canteen between the two strips of units. I loved it there. Full view of lake and a very long n wide property to water. Sunrises and moons.
gorgeous and delightful
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn Cooler when it's 90-100° I'm sorry for Jews who must live in cities. Wigs, scarves, stockings, and gentleman's attire mean indoor activities. I bought a house on a small lake in county. I found my 3x grandmother in a country cemetery with her sons, their wives, and several children. I've had Providential confirmations she was Jewish. It's also possible my 2x grandma was too. Her maiden name is in the Jerusalem Holocaust Memorial. There's a website that posts pictures of victims. I have two ancestral surnames there that are probably connected with my dad's mom as maybe? 3-4th cousins. People can say what they want I don't care. I know God led me to their graves. They homesteaded in my county in 1840. I'm guessing non observant? but there isn't even one Cross on any of their headstones. It's a public cemetery. My 2x grandpa and great uncle participated in the community. It's been a life journey for me because I always wanted to know where they are except I didn't know about their Jewish connection. Ancestors are with us people and they are meant to be remembered and honored just as parents and immediate grandparents. It's the circle and foundation of life.
❤️ love and peace to all.
Absolutely loving this!
GREAT VIDEO🌻