This month we’re talking about Passover, talking about our favorite rituals, texts, foods, and more. Passover favorites Ritual Mimi: Hallel (when it happens!) and washing each others hands Zahava: Reciting the entire Hagaddah out loud, in unison, with my family Tamar: Making pickles the night before the holiday begins Text Tamar: Letter to My Old Master by Jourdan Anderson, Praise the Contrary and its Defenders by Sue...
Read MoreThis month we’re talking about Jewish influencers. What/how are the influencing us, and what trends do we see and like or dislike? “Influencer” can feel like a very shallow field–one that’s obsessed with trends and how things look to attract likes, views, followers. So what happens when influencers are speaking from a Jewish space? Raizy Fried Rosh Hashana Tablescape The Power of Femininity Mommy Burnout Raizy Fried’s New...
Read MoreThis month we’re talking about how we prioritize kid services and programming versus our own communal needs. What is our ideal, and what we have we seen that didn’t work for us. Endorsements Mimi endorses Kapelya, an album of women singing Hasidic melodies soon to be released by the artist RAZA, watching the Klimovitcher Nigun recording on YouTube, and Yerba Buena: A Novel by Nina LaCour. Zahava endorses Growing Each Day...
Read MoreThis month we’re talking about being Jewish at work. How do we explain and present ourselves as Jews at a Jewish workplace, or a non-Jewish workplace? 1 in 4 hiring managers say they’re less likely to hire Jewish applicants by Kathryn Moody in HR Dive Zahava’s short twitter thread about a work conversation after the Tree of Life shooting. Endorsements Mimi endorses There Are Lots of Jews in Hollywood. Let a Rabbi Explain...
Read MoreHello! and welcome to Talking in Shul, a roundtable podcast. I’m your host, Tamar Fox, and I’ve got Zahava Stadler joining us from Toronto. Hi Zahava! And Mimi Lewis is joining us from Somerville, MA. Hi Mimi! You may have noticed that we took a bit of a break since our last episode. We are getting pretty busy and so we are going to spend the next couple of months experimenting with how we can make the podcast a bit...
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Beauty Queen of Jerusalem Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a new show on Netflix (it previously came out as 20 30 min episodes in Israel. Netflix has made it into 10 hour long episodes). It follows the Hermosas, a wealthy Sephardic family who own a shop in Machane Yehuda in Jerudalem. Gabriel runs the shop, his overbearing mother Mercada runs his life, including his marriage to his wife, Rosa, and eventually their daughters, including...
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