This week on the podcast we’re talking about Yizkor, the memorial prayer that’s said on Yom Kippur, and about what it’s really like to be a single Jewish woman looking for a partner. For the second segment we’ll be joined by Deena, a single Jewish woman in New York who will give us some real talk.
Further reading
Yizkor
Alternative Yizkor Prayers To Say For Abusive Parents at MyJewishLearning.com
Not the “Shidduch Crisis”
The Shidduch Crisis Blame Game by Josh Yuter in the Forward
Endorsements
Mimi is thinking about Jewish garb, and the signals that they send. She is also thinking about kittels and heteronormativity.
Zahava recommends When God is Near: On the High Holidays by Rabbi Yehuda Amital, and the TV show It Takes a Church, a matchmaking show for single women in their church.
Tamar recommends the Spotify playlists Songs for Elul, Love and Longing I, and Love and Longing II, curated by Rabbi Yosef Goldman, and the poem Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski.
