This month on the podcast we each read a different book about someone leaving Orthodoxy, and we’re going to discuss the themes and reactions that came up for all of us. In our second segment we’re going to discuss the recent blowup around Women’s March leaders Tamika Mallory and Carmen Perez and their support of Louis Farrakhan, a virulent anti-Semite and misogynist.
Further reading
Memoirs about leaving Orthodoxy
All Who Go Do Not Return by Shulem Deen
Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander
Cut Me Loose: in and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood by Leah Vincent
A Book of Separation: A Memoir by Tova Mirvis
Anti-Semitism and the Women’s March
The Women’s March Has a Farrakhan Problem by John Paul Pogano in The Atlantic
Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan by Adam Serwer in The Atlantic
A Word About Louis Farrakhan and Tamika Mallory by Terrell Jermaine Starr in The Root
What Black People Hear When You Demand That They Denounce Louis Farrakhan by Anoa Changa in the Forward
Why Won’t Women’s March Leaders Denounce Louis Farrakhan’s Anti-Semitism? by Jesse Singal in New York Magazine
We Need To Talk About Black Anti-Semitism by Ben Faulding in the Forward
To My Black Brothers And Sisters: I’m Black And Jewish. Farrakhan Is Bad For Us All. by Nylah Burton in the Forward
Memo To The Left: Denounce Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan by Elad Nehorai in the Forward
Embracing Farrakhan Betrays The Most Essential Principles of The Women’s March by Christina Cauterucci in Slate
D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’ by By Peter Jamison and Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post
Some wanted a D.C. Council member to resign for his anti-Semitic comments. Jewish leaders invited him to Seders instead. by Michelle Boorstein in the Washington Post
Endorsements
Zahava recommends Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 by Arnold Hirsch
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Mimi recommends the Torah.
