Does the source of the money matter? What if the donor’s lifestyle conflicts with your morals?
Read MoreContinuing our investigation of outsiders, oppressors, and people the Rabbis just plain don’t like, we tackle Christianity. What happens when someone claims to love the same book you do, but is reading it inside-out?
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Can you say Hallel at night if your minyan doesn’t meet during the day?
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This week on the podcast we’re talking about non-Ashkenazi Judaism with Sigal Samuel, Opinion editor of the Forward, and about the great Kitniyot debate. This year the Conservative movement released a responsum permitting Ashkenazi Jews to do what non-Ashkenazi Jews have been doing for centuries: eat rice, beans, and other legumes on Passover. Further reading Non-Ashkenazi Judaism Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at...
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This week on the podcast we’re talking about White Walls: A memoir about motherhood, daughter, and the mess in between by Judy Batalion. And for our second topic we’re doing a mini-seder, sharing some questions and answers about things from the seder.
Read MoreThis month on the podcast we’re talking about Judaism and the presidental election. Bernie Sanders, the first serious Jewish candidate for President of the United States, is seen by some as not Jewish enough, while Donald Trump eschews the usual Republican stances on Israel, and is seen by some as fascistic and anti-Semitic. In our second segment we’re talking about the Hereville books, a series of graphic novels whose...
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