This month our first topic is Covered Up, a documentary about wearing a wig by director Rachel Elitzur. For our second segment we’re talking about a recent episode of This American Life that featured a segment about the Chabad community in Crown Heights in a not so flattering way.
Covered Up
The difficult Jewish compromise by Hana Henrik Fafner in Modern Times.
Rachel Elitzur on facebook, instagram, and twitter.
The Orthodox Woman’s Tireless Search For The Most Natural Wig By Michelle Honig in the Forward
We Come from Small Places
Listen to the segment from This American Life
Twitter thread from @Mottel about the problems with the segment
We Hasidim Aren’t Aliens. And We’re Tired Of The Media Acting Like It. By Leibel Baumgarten in the Forward
Here’s Something New: We Called Out Ira Glass and He Thanked Us by Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt in the Forward
Endorsements
Zahava endorses the Ethiopian Hebrews Series of photographs in the New York Public Library digital collection, and Antwaun Sargent’s piece about the photographs for the Jewish Museum, written during Black History Month in 2018.
Mimi endorses an article from Hey Alma that wonders what if The Great British Bake-Off had a Jewish Week?
Tamar endorses the Modzitz melody for Ein Kitzvah which you can find on the Hadar website (it’s the middle one here), and The Message of Measles by Nick Paumgarten in the New Yorker.
