Hello! 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...
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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:...
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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...
Read MoreThis month we’re talking Marcie Greenfield Simons about what it’s like to be an interfaith chaplain in these intense covid times. And for our second segment we’re talking about a series of video documentaries from the Times of Israel about three somewhat neglected populations within Jerusalem: secular Jews, Christians, and Arabs who might want to become Israeli citizens. First segment Marcie...
Read MoreThis month we’re talking about the new book, Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century, edited by Warren Hoffman, and Miriam Steinberg Egeth. And for our second segment we’re talking about The Club, a new show on netflix that centers on a Jewish woman in Istanbul in the 1950s. Endorsements Mimi endorses ridiculous Chasidic pop songs. In particular,...
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