This month on the podcast we’re talking about the High Holiday season. We’re just off a solid month of holidays, and we thought it might be a good time to reflect on what makes the chagim, or holidays, successful and/or meaningful to us. And we’re talking about the matriarchs. How do we feel about the foremothers of the Jewish people. Further reading Rosh Hashanah Anatomy of Injustice by Raymond Bonner When God is Near by Rabbi Yehuda...
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This month on the podcast we’re talking about #MeToo in the Jewish world and about Spike Lee’s new film, Blackkklansmen, which follows a black detective in Colorado Springs as he and a Jewish colleague infiltrate the local chapter of the KKK. Further reading #MeToo in the Jewish community My personal and professional reckoning with Steven Cohen’s #MeToo moment by Jane Eisner in the Forward Me #MeToo moment haunts me – even four...
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This month on the podcast we’re talking about the Ashkenazi Jewish food renaissance with Liz Alpern, entrepreneur and co-founder of the Gefilteria, and co-author of the Gefilte Manifesto. And for our second segment we’re talking about the new film Neshikot B’Ivrit, or Hebrew Kisses, by filmmaker Manya Lozovskaya. Further reading Ashkenazi Jewish food renaissance The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Food by Jeffrey...
Read MoreCan I bow down to the elders during my Karate class? Does Jewish law treat all bowing and salutes – whether part of a traditional class ceremony or directed toward a civic leader – the same?
Read MoreCan I prepare non-Kosher food for a soup kitchen? Does it matter if I look identifiably Jewish?
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This month on the podcast we’re talking about a now infamous op-ed in the Washington Post, “I am tired of being a Jewish man’s rebellion” by Carey Purcell, and the resulting backlash. And for our second segment we’re talking about the new film Disobedience, based on the novel by Naomi Alderman, and starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams as two women who grew up Orthodox struggling with their love for each other. Further reading I am...
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