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This month our first topic is apologies. We’re joined by Miriam Steinberg-Egeth, a Jewish advice columnist in Philadelphia to discuss what makes a good apology? What makes a bad apology? As we approach the High Holidays, how are we reflecting on the public and private apologies we want to make and are seeing around us? For our second segment Zahava and Tamar discuss Golda’s Balcony, a Broadway show that is now making the...

This month our first topic is the rabbinic pipeline. We’re talking to Rabbi Leora Kling-Perkins about her experiences going through the process to get a job as a pulpit rabbi, and about our own experiences being on the other end of the rabbi search process. For our second segment we’re going to be talking about Holocaust comparisons. When, if ever, can and should we invoke the Holocaust in reflecting on current events?...

This month on the podcast, we talk to Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll of Chochmat Nashim about the erasure of women in many Jewish publications, a worsening trend. Then, in our second segment, we discuss the influence of megadonors on the Jewish world in the wake of Michael Steinhardt’s #metoo scandal. Endorsements: Mimi endorses Uprooted: A Jewish Communal Response to Fertility Journeys, and the videos of Bim Bam, which you...

Can I bow down to the elders during my Karate class? Does Jewish law treat all bowing and salutes – whether part of a traditional class ceremony or directed toward a civic leader – the same?