This month on Talking in Shul we’re talking about the Jewish media landscape–how does it work, and what do we wish it did better? Our second topic is breastfeeding in shul. A new blog allows people to submit their experiences at various synagogues, but is it appropriate? For that segment, we will be joined by our friend Yael Kalman. Yael is many wonderful things, including a mother to two young children, one of whom is currently breastfeeding.
Further reading
Jewish Media
What’s Behind the Mass Layoffs at the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
Breastfeeding in Shul
Nursing at Shul the blog where people can submit a community’s policy around breastfeeding in synagogue
Breastfeeding and Showing Affection in Shul, a responsum by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz
Breastfeeding at Synagogue in the Forward
I was Shamed for Breastfeeding in Synagogue from Kveller
Rabbi Ysoscher Katz and Rabbi Ozer Glickman Rounds One and Two from Kavanah
Five Places Where Breastfeeding in Certainly Inappropriate
Endorsements
Tamar endorsed
In Israel Sexism Starts Early by Shoshana Kordova in the Forward
My Face Book
Zahava endorsed
Evelyn Fuchter’s RCA Convention Speech
Mimi Endorsed
This is Not the Charleston I Know by Robert N. Rosen
Don’t Whitewash Charleston’s Troubled Racial History by Adam D. Mendelsohn
Yael endorsed
The Bebe Au Lait nursing cover
All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir by Shulem Deen
