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Can I read about Corona Virus on Shabbat?

This month we’re talking to Philissa Cramer, the new editor in chief of JTA. For our second segment we’re talking about a short film called Broken Bird.  Show Notes JTA JTA.org Broken Bird Broken Bird is a moving coming of age film about a black jewish teen by Ariella Kaplan in alma  Rachel Harrison Gordon on Giving Wings to Broken Bird by Stephen Saito in Movable Feast  Rachel Harrison Gordon’s...

This month we’re talking to Hila Ratzabi, a writer and editor based in Israel, about Etty Hillesum, a Jewish writer, academic and diarist who lived in Amsterdam during World War II, and was killed in a concentration camp. For our second segment we’re talking about cleaning for Passover.  So for our first topic we’re joined by Hila Ratzabi, managing editor of Ritualwell, joining us from Israel to speak with us...

On this bonus mini episode, we discuss how the Coronavirus has affected us personally. We also chat about our plans for Pesach in light of social distancing and Zoom...

This month we talked to Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter, the leader of a new Modern Orthodox shul in Philadelphia called The South Philadelphia Shtiebel. And for our second topic we’re talking about Debbie Friedman, her impact on Jewish music, and on us personally, on the occasion of her ninth yahrzeit. Dasi Fruchter South Philly’s historic Jewish community is growing. She opened a new synagogue to serve it. By Oren Oppenheim in the...

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...