This month our first topic is Beyond the Pale, a recent episode of the TV show Finding Your Roots. And for our second topic, we’re talking about our favorite verses from tanakh and Jewish aphorisms.
Beyond the Pale
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr is show on PBS in which various celebrities learn about their ancestors from Books of Life, assembled by geneaologists and researchers, and hosted by historian Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. In a recent episode called Beyond the Pale, actor Jeff Goldblum, npr show host Terry Gross, and podcaster Marc Maron each learned about their Eastern European Jewish roots.
Favorite jewish verses/aphorisms
Zahava endorses revisiting a Jewish text you’ve known for a long time but never learned in depth, and learning more deeply about it.
Mimi endorses Tiffany Haddish’s Jewish Genealogy story as chronicled in a Hey Alma article and in her Netflix special, Black Mitzvah.
Tamar endorses Messiah on Netflix (half-heartedly), and The Commentator’s Bible by Michael Cerasic.
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