This is our final episode and it’s an all endorsements episode!
Tamar:
From Zahava:
- Almond cookies for Pesach,
- The sefaria app Torah Tab for Jewish texts on new tabs
From Mimi:
- Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
- The Lizzie Bennett diaries
My own:
- Til Kingdom Come documentary
- The Commentator’s Bible by Michael Carasik
New:
Escape the algorithm newsletter by Elan Ullendorf
The Rest is Memory by Lily Tuck
Converting to Judaism in the Wake of October 7th By Jeannie Suk Gersen in the New Yorker
Yenta episode Jewish Lesbian Power Couple with Elana Arian
Rabbi Miles Cohen’s leyning and leading resources
I went to chelm and all I got was this lousy pair of pants t-shirt from Jewishmemesonly
Mimi:
Tamar–Episode 89, a new tradition for Elijah’s cup.
Zahava–Heavy by Mary Oliver
Current: Sefirat ha-omer niggun by R’ Yosef Goldman.
Ezra Klein podcast interviewing Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics
David Zvi Kalman’s podcast Belief in the Future
Zahava:
Historical endorsements:
- From Mimi:
- The music of RAZA, especially the 2023 album Kapelya
- The song We Rise by Batya Levine
- From Tamar:
- The novel Search by Michelle Huneven
- The novel Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
- From me:
- The Chief Cantor of the IDF singing Unetaneh Tokef with a choir
- The song Remember That We Suffered from the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
- The novel Safekeeping by Jessamyn Hope
- Dahlia Lithwick’s interview with Becca Heller of the International Refugee Assistance Project on the one-year anniversary of the 2016 election, plus Dahlia’s book Lady Justice, which includes a chapter about Becca Heller
- The story behind Hillary Clinton’s gefilte fish email by Roberto A. Ferdman in the Washington Post (and really, just the fact that that email existed)
Half-new endorsements:
- If you didn’t watch (or finish) the limited series Little Bird on PBS, you should.
- The book Tablets Shattered: The End of An American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua Leifer
New endorsements
This recipe for white chocolate raspberry cheesecake
The book Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy by Dr. Yael Ziegler
Music credit: “Mircoobee” by Keinzweither.
