Talking in Shul


“The Last Days” & the Pew Survey of Jews in America

https://soundcloud.com/jewishpublicmedia/the-last-days-the-pew-survey-of-jews-in-america

For our first segment, we’re talking about The Last Days, a documentary that originally came out in 1998, directed by James Moll, and focuses on the lives of five hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust. Recently rereleased on Netflix, it got us thinking about Holocaust education, and how it’s changing in a world where there are fewer and fewer Holocaust survivors.  For that segment we’re talking to Rachel Libman who is the Manager of Public Programs, at the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre.

Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre

For our second segment we’re talking about the new Pew survey of Jews in America. What, if anything, are our takeaways?

Jewish Americans in 2020 conducted by the Pew research study.

What it means to be a ‘Jew of No Religion’ — it’s not what you think by Paul Golin in Jweekly

Surveys asking American Jews if they’re religious miss the point by Rachel B. Gross in Jweekly

Endorsements

Mimi endorses reading The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats during a heat wave and two Twitter threads by journalist Alex Zeldin @jewishwonk regarding anti-Semitic harassment. The threads are here and here

Zahava endorses the “Go Hitler!” chapter of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah.

Tamar endorses The Intimacy Experiment by Rosie Danan, Simply Julia by Julia Turshen, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw, and the song Our Power by Rena Branson.