# Taking Down Israel & Exposing Trump's Freedom of Religion w/ Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro & Carrie Prejean

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Podcast: [The Katie Halper Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-katie-halper-show-1099067)
Published: 2026-03-26T23:30:13+00:00
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Duration seconds: 6055

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Katie speaks to Conservative Catholic Carrie Prejean Boller, Muslim-American activist and scholar Sameerah Munshi, and Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro. But first she speaks to Remo Ibrahim, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Mask Off Maersk campaign. Finally, Katie speaks about Palestinian philosopher and diplomat Fayez Sayegh with John Harfouch, Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and the author of He is the author of Another Mind-Body Problem: A History of Racial Non-Being and Joseph Levine Professor Emeritus at Umass Amherst, the author of Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness. For the full discussion, join us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-dr-153870729 Carrie Prejean Boller is a wife, mother of two, & community activist, guided by a deep commitment to protecting religious freedom & upholding First Amendment protections. From San Diego, CA, she won Miss California and wrote the book Still Standing in 2009. Carrie joined the Catholic Church in 2025 and was was appointed by President Trump to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission at the White House. Yaakov Shapiro is an international speaker, author, and pulpit rabbi for over 30 years, now emeritus. After graduating high school at 16, Rabbi Shapiro dedicated himself to full-time study of religion, becoming the protégé of some of the most well-regarded rabbinic scholars in Orthodoxy. At 19 he published his first book, משפטי הבירורים, a collection of original expositions on rabbinic principles of tort adjudication. His most recent work, The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft (2018), a 1381-page treatise on the differences between Judaism and Zionism. Sameerah Munshi is a Brown University gradua…

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