Podcast


The Spy and Psalms


Posted By on Sep 26, 2019

 This month our first topic is The Spy, a new show starring Sacha Baron Cohen on Netflix. And our second topic is Psalms, or tehillim. How do we approach this mainstay of women’s prayer? Further reading The Spy The real story behind ‘The Spy,’ Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Netflix series by Josefin Dolsten in JTAThe Spy review – Sacha Baron Cohen goes undercover in middling Mossad drama by Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian Sacha Baron...

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Apologies and Golda’s Balcony


Posted By on Aug 27, 2019

This month our first topic is apologies. We’re joined by Miriam Steinberg-Egeth, a Jewish advice columnist in Philadelphia to discuss what makes a good apology? What makes a bad apology? As we approach the High Holidays, how are we reflecting on the public and private apologies we want to make and are seeing around us? For our second segment Zahava and Tamar discuss Golda’s Balcony, a Broadway show that is now making the...

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This month our first topic is the rabbinic pipeline. We’re talking to Rabbi Leora Kling-Perkins about her experiences going through the process to get a job as a pulpit rabbi, and about our own experiences being on the other end of the rabbi search process. For our second segment we’re going to be talking about Holocaust comparisons. When, if ever, can and should we invoke the Holocaust in reflecting on current events?...

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