Podcast

This month our first topic is Covered Up, a documentary about wearing a wig by director Rachel Elitzur. For our second segment we’re talking about a recent episode of This American Life that featured a segment about the Chabad community in Crown Heights in a not so flattering way.  Covered Up Covered Up trailer:  The difficult Jewish compromise by Hana Henrik Fafner in Modern Times.  Rachel Elitzur on facebook, instagram, and twitter....

What to Do with Grandma’s Treyf China? Tune in to find out more from Rabbi Avi Killip and Rabbi Ethan Tucker.

 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 Cohen...

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 rounds as a...

We’re back with more from Responsa Radio, this time asking the question: How do we use space during Yom Kippur services? Tune in to find out more from Rabbi Avi Killip and Rabbi Ethan...