2 Jews Talking

This week we sat down with Reuben Posner & Julianne Schwartz the director and assistant director of Havaya Arts camp. We had a blast talking about summer camp! This is their inaugural year, and it looks like it'll be a lot of fun.

Havaya Arts is a brand new overnight Jewish arts summer camp in Southern California. Camp is open to current 2nd-9th graders with any level of arts experience. Click HERE to learn more! They are generously funded by the Jim Joseph Foundation and AVI CHAI Foundation, in partnership with the Foundation for Jewish Camp.

https://havayaarts.org/

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Josh went on a roadtrip to Texas with friend-of-the-show Ben Stein. On a tip from a Facebook inquiry about "interesting Jews in El Paso" they stopped in town on a Tuesday night. Within 10 minutes of arrival they were immediately brought to a victory party for congressional candidate Veronica Escobar (D). They got to meet artist and City Representative Peter Svarzbein and his buddy Sammy Holaschutz, a non-ferrous metal trader. After the party they stopped for a few Whataburgers and then sat down to learn about The World Famous Jews of El Paso. The conversation felt like hanging out with old friends-- fellow loud, opinionated, Jews. This episode was a lot of fun, you'll learn a lot, and will make you want to visit El Paso.

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Josh is in Austin for SXSW to sell merch for Headgum and get some great interviews. He sat down with Gabriel Barretto the filmmaker behind My Cricket and Me. It's a comedy loosely based on Gabriel's experience as a roadie with Willie Nelson the summer before going off to Sarah Lawrence. Gabriel grew up in an entertainment family, his mom is actress Amy Irving from Yentl & Carrie, and his dad is Bruno Barreto the acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker. He has an interesting perspective as a showbiz kid, like how weird it is to see your mom die on film and how he taught Stephen Spielberg (his mom's first husband) to beat a level on Angry Birds.

Find Gabriel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cricketramsey

Find Gabriel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigfootbjornsen/

Find out more about My Cricket and Me: http://www.mycricketandme.com/

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This week is an extremely informative episode with Dr. David Levitus of LA Forward. He talks about what progressivism means, how his organization is working locally, and how this is the perfect moment to change our country.

"Getting involved in the face to face stuff---the organizing can be this great source of meaning and belonging in the world---and we need to create more opportunities for that."

ALSO HE IS THE NINTH PhD TO APPEAR ON 2JT! ISN'T THAT IMPRESSIVE MOM???

Find David at

Listen to his podcast: LA Forwards & Backwards

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/la-forwards-backwards/id1281847259?mt=2

Find LA Forward online at: https://www.losangelesforward.org/

Find David on Twitter as @Levitusing: https://twitter.com/levitusing

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We had a great time this week with Lorraine DeGraffenreidt and Sarah Isaacson of the Learnt Up podcast. On their podcast they learn basic black and Jewish stuff they should totally already know. On this episode we chat about Mr. Rogers many cardigans and his mud room, John Waters sightings, Catholic confirmations, Gilda Radner, Richard Pryor, and how the Alt Right use hate as their love language.

Check out their episodes here: http://learntup.libsyn.com/

And find them on Instagram: @learntuppodcast

More info on the 90s Bar Mitzvah and Dance Party: https://www.facebook.com/events/210973516115470 and EastSideJews.com

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This week Josh interviews Josh Neuman. He is the writer and director of Johnny Physical Lives, an award-winning documentary that memorializes his punk rock brother. We talk about the film, the Friar's Club, and Neuman's time as the editor of Heeb Magazine.

Johnny Physical Lives screens this Sunday 1/21/18 at 2pm at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles. It will be followed by a conversation about creativity and human connection during crisis with NYT's Suleika Jaouad, and Carla Fernandez of The Dinner Party: Life After Loss.

For more info about the film visit: www.johnnyphysicallives.com

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Josh and Erika bid farewell to the year that was awful in so many ways, but actually pretty positive for both of them.

Wishing everyone a healthy and auspicious 2018!

Erika's annual Intention-Setting Hike in LA is January 7th, more details: https://www.detoxfromsocialmedia.com/upcoming-events-1/

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Recording Live from Tabula Rasa Bar on Hollywood Boulevard on the final night of hanukkah 2017... 2 Jews Talking with returning guest Shmuel Gonzales (The Barrio Boychik.) Shmuel talks about an anti-fascist hanukkah celebration in Boyle Heights in 1940, and reminds us that we are celebrating light in the darkest times.

Find Shmuel on his Barrio Boychik blog https://barrioboychik.wordpress.com/

This event was sponsored by Nu Roots' Infinite Light celebration. http://infinitelight.la/

Thank you to Tabula Rasa Bar for hosting us, and to Joel Serot for letting us borrow microphones.

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We sat down with Jessica Chaffin & Dane Crane of The Kibitz. We chatted about what it's like to have podcasts about "being Jewish" and how our podcasts are definitely not about "Judaism." It's one of those fun hang-out episodes with the added bonus of listening to this squad of Jewish podcasters figure out how to calm down a barking dog while it's in the studio. Enjoy.

Listen to The Kibitz

http://www.kibitzpod.com/episodes/

The Kibitz is doing a live episode a Catskills Kibitz with special guests: Michael Showalter, Moshe Kasher, and the Living Sisters -- Wednesday, December 13, 2017, at Canter's Deli on Fairfax in LA.

http://www.kibitzpod.com/events/

2 Jews Talking is also doing a live episode, with everybody's favorite Barrio Boychik, Shmuel Gonzales. Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at Tabula Rasa Bar on Hollywood in LA.

https://www.facebook.com/events/143869689598209/

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"'Cause time goes by like hurricanes, and faster things..."

If you've been looking for some sort of sign that it's time to interview your grandparents or older relatives — this is it.

In this very special mini-sode, Erika shares one of the first interviews she ever did of her grandparents and gives a few pointers in how to get started documenting family stories.

Have a short family story you'd like to share? Send us the file at 2JewsTalking at gmail dot com — we'd like to combine them all into one awesome episode.

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