This month on the podcast we’re talking about #MeToo in the Jewish world and about Spike Lee’s new film, Blackkklansmen, which follows a black detective in Colorado Springs as he and a Jewish colleague infiltrate the local chapter of the KKK.
Further reading
#MeToo in the Jewish community
My personal and professional reckoning with Steven Cohen’s #MeToo moment by Jane Eisner in the Forward
Me #MeToo moment haunts me – even four decades later by Jane Eisner in the Forward
Women in Jewish fundraising say harassment is pervasive by Debra Nussbaum Cohen in JTA
Female Rabbis Speak Out About ‘Pervasive’ Harassment by Stewart Ain in The Jewish Week
How Jewish Academia Created a #MeToo Disaster by Kate Rosenblatt, Lila Corwin Berman and Ronit Stahl in the Forward
Ken means yes, a Yom Kippur action
BlackkKlansman
BlacKkKlansman’ Recalls The Possibility, Then & Now, Of A Black-Jewish Alliance by Marc Dollinger in The Jewish Week
Why Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is a cautionary tale for 21st-century Jews by Charles Dunst in JTA
Why BlacKkKlansman Is Required Viewing for Jews by Abraham Riesman in Vulture
With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee Sounds the Alarm About America’s Past and Present by David Sims in the Atlantic
Endorsements
Zahava recommends the fact that there’s a blurb from ?uestlove on the back of the Zahav cookbook, and Rabbi David Ebner’s book of poetry, The Library of Everything, specifically the poems Yizkor and The Library of Everything.
Mimi recommends the Jewels of Elul, Elul writing prompts, giving something away every day of Elul, and talking to your friends about High Holiday services and studying the Machzor ahead of time.
Tamar asks for advice on how to not hate davening, and recommends the Spike Lee joint, Inside Man.
