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 First-Ever National Gathering by Sigal Samuel in the Forward
The Invention of the Mizrahim by Ella Shohat
Conversations in Time: Past, Present and Future, an interview with one of the founders of the Ben Porat Yosef school
Ben Porat Yosef 5th graders read megillah in different nusachs.
Kitniyot on Pesach
A Teshuvah Permitting Ashkenazim to Eat Kitniyot on Pesah by Amy Levin and Avram Israel Reisner
Endorsements
Zahava recommends the webseries Soon By You, especially the first episode, The Setup.
Mimi recommends “Diversity” Won’t Challenge Jewry’s Role in White Supremacy by Mark Tsend Putterman in Jewschool.
And the Santa Cruz Haggadah by Karen GR Roekard.
Tamar recommends Hummus! The Movie, Disturbing the Peace, Grain of Truth, and Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?
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