This month we’re talking about how we prioritize kid services and programming versus our own communal needs. What is our ideal, and what we have we seen that didn’t work for us. Endorsements Mimi endorses Kapelya, an album of women singing Hasidic melodies soon to be released by the artist RAZA, watching the Klimovitcher Nigun recording on YouTube, and Yerba Buena: A Novel by Nina LaCour. Zahava endorses Growing Each Day by Rabbi...
Read MoreThis month we’re talking about being Jewish at work. How do we explain and present ourselves as Jews at a Jewish workplace, or a non-Jewish workplace? 1 in 4 hiring managers say they’re less likely to hire Jewish applicants by Kathryn Moody in HR Dive Zahava’s short twitter thread about a work conversation after the Tree of Life shooting. Endorsements Mimi endorses There Are Lots of Jews in Hollywood. Let a Rabbi Explain Why by Jay...
Read MoreHello! and welcome to Talking in Shul, a roundtable podcast. I’m your host, Tamar Fox, and I’ve got Zahava Stadler joining us from Toronto. Hi Zahava! And Mimi Lewis is joining us from Somerville, MA. Hi Mimi! You may have noticed that we took a bit of a break since our last episode. We are getting pretty busy and so we are going to spend the next couple of months experimenting with how we can make the podcast a bit more manageable...
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Beauty Queen of Jerusalem Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a new show on Netflix (it previously came out as 20 30 min episodes in Israel. Netflix has made it into 10 hour long episodes). It follows the Hermosas, a wealthy Sephardic family who own a shop in Machane Yehuda in Jerudalem. Gabriel runs the shop, his overbearing mother Mercada runs his life, including his marriage to his wife, Rosa, and eventually their daughters, including...
Read MoreThis month we’re talking about a YouTube special called Recipe for Change: Standing up to Antisemism. And for our second segment we’re talking about how the expected end of Roe v Wade impacts the Jewish community, and how the Jewish community can and should be responding. For that segment we’ll be talking with my good friend, and a speaker at the NCJW abortion rights rally, Rabbi Annie Lewis. Recipe for Change: Standing Up to...
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This month we’re talking about the TN school ban of Maus, and other attempts to limit education around difficult or uncomfortable subjects like the Holocaust and slavery. And for our second segment we’re, oof, we are getting ready for pesach and thinking about some Seder topics we are (and aren’t) excited to discuss at our Seders. Book bans The Fight Over ‘Maus’ Is Part of a Bigger Cultural Battle in Tennessee by Stephanie Kasakove...
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