This month on the podcast we’re talking about the High Holiday season. We’re just off a solid month of holidays, and we thought it might be a good time to reflect on what makes the chagim, or holidays, successful and/or meaningful to us. And we’re talking about the matriarchs. How do we feel about the foremothers of the Jewish people.
Further reading
Rosh Hashanah
Anatomy of Injustice by Raymond Bonner
When God is Near by Rabbi Yehuda Amital
Professor Sarah Wolf’s Yom Kippur drash
Matriarchs
Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity, and Freudian Slips in Genesis by Shmuel Klitsner
Endorsements
Zahava recommends Overlooked No More: Clara Lemlich Shavelson, Crusading Leader of Labor Rights by Zoe Greenberg in the New York Times. Relatedly, Tamar recommends Brave Girl by Michelle Markel, a children’s book about Clara Lemlich. Zahava also recommends more of the essays from When God is Near by Rabbi Yehuda Amital.
Mimi recommends the BimBam video about Kohelet and Rachel Calof’s Story, a memoir by Rachel Calof. (Tamar seconds this endorsement and has also heard good things about And Prairie Dogs Weren’t Kosher by Linda Mack Schloff.)
Tamar endorses the book This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared by Rabbi Alan Lew.
