This month on the podcast we’re talking about awesome historical Jewish women that we didn’t learn about when we were kids. And we’re going to talk about Jewish rituals that we wish existed, and ones we could do without.
Further reading
Awesome Jewish women in history
Take the Prominent Jewish Women in History quiz from MyJewishLearning.com.
Regina Jonas, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi who died in the Holocaust
Short film: In the footsteps of Regina Jonas
Ray Frank’s Yom Kippur sermon, 1890
Justine Wise Polier is dead; A judge and child advocate, by Edward Hudson in the New York Times
Rituals we love, hate, want to exist, and would do away with
Endorsements
Zahava recommends the Jewish Women’s Archive, and the poem called Ba’al Teshuvas at the Mikvah by Yehoshua November.
Mimi recommends The Meyerowitz Stories, and the Heavyweight podcast, specifically the episodes Buzz and Jeremy.
Tamar recommends the song What the Hell is Simchas Torah by Jewnmongous, aka Sean Altman.
