This month our first topic is The Spy, a new show starring Sacha Baron Cohen on Netflix. And our second topic is Psalms, or tehillim. How do we approach this mainstay of women’s prayer?

Further reading

The Spy

The real story behind ‘The Spy,’ Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Netflix series by Josefin Dolsten in JTA
The Spy review – Sacha Baron Cohen goes undercover in middling Mossad drama by Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian

Sacha Baron Cohen Plays It Straight—Too Straight—in The Spy by Willa Paskin in Slate

Netflix’s ‘The Spy’ is the First Time I’ve Seen My Sephardi Culture On Screen by Linda Maleh in Hey Alma

Tehillim

Psalms as the ultimate self-help tool by Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub on MyJewishLearning 

Endorsements

Zahava endorses Psalm 121 as set to music by Yosef Karduner, and Madeline L’Engle’s young adult series The Austin Family Chronicles, which include a book called The Moon by Night, after a verse in Psalm 121. 

Mimi endorses Schitt’s Creek, When Heroes Fly, the text of Elizabeth Warren’s speech on the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, and the work of Jessica Tamar Deutsch.

Tamar endorses Seder HaAvodah by Ishay Ribo and Origin of Yom Kippur: Not Moses, but a Murder in the Temple? By Elon Gilad in Haaretz, Godland by Lyz Lenz.