Bashert

Kislev 5787 is upon us and we're finding ways to bring a little light and warmth into the deep midwinter.

Join Keziah and guest co-host Daniel for a warming cup of tea and a conversation about Jewish winter traditions, Chanukah and the winter solstice.

From lighting candles and reclaiming our cultural heritage to German Christmas traditions we're exploring the rituals, stories and cultural connections that help us through the winter months.

In this episode:

• Light Night and K Walker's 'I Want Ur Hands on Me (Unrequited)'.
• Wintering by Katherine May and the invitation to embrace the darker months.
• Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks, including the wonderful words for fog found across the British Isles.
• Naza, and how what's done in the dark will come out in the light and finding ways to foster hope and solidarity while acknowledging the ongoing harm committed in our name in Palestine.

Coming up in Leeds!

Just a few weeks left to get your tickets for our Chanukah Klezmer Keilidh at All Hallows, Leeds, on 5 December.

Come and celebrate with us!

Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bashert/2433988

A gutn chodesh, and may Kislev bring you warmth, light and a little hope.

We’re joined by guest co-host Rum from across the Penines in Manchester to look back at Tishrei, including Succos in Manchester, then talk about Mar/Bitter Cheshvanand Scorpio season. We learn more about what the rain brings and washes away and share our top tips for mushroom foraging at this time of the year. This month’s tea is a blend of lavender, haw berries, nettle and crab apple. We also talk about feeling separate from the wider Jewish community, what Jewish life is like for queer Jewish families, and what’s on offer for kids and young people in the UK.

Mor Ezri, a Talmud nerd and bog witch joins Bashert as our first guest co-host. We chat about Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the relationship between the two equinoxes share our favourite graveyards, and ask whether Succos or Purim is the real Jewish Halloween.

Along the way we sip a cup of (lukewarm) hyssop tea, learn about the foundation stone of the Temple and trace the origins of the term scapegoat.

Bashert is a monthly Jewish calendar podcast and radio show from Leeds, a UK space for anti-Zionist Jews and allies to find community.

Two places to direct your tzedakah:

Pafras - to find out about refugee/asylum seeker support in your area, email [email protected]

Good Shepherd Collective

Shana Tova and a happy, sweet new year to you all.

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DJ Chaia's music is a window into a Jewish past that was always more fluid, open and loving than we've been taught. If we could feel that freedom at any point in our history then we can feel it now. Join Bronya and DJ Chaia and bring the new year in with ecstatic dreams of Olam Haba, hear about sound archives across cultures and the horizontality of fish in this interview special recorded before DJ Chaia's deep listening event at Hope House in Leeds this June.

Find out more about DJ Chaia's work

https://chaia.online/

@chaialeh

Topics: Jewish diaspora culture, sound archives, Palestinian Sound Archive, Sudan Cassette Archive, Koshari FM, Scots Yiddish poetry, antizionism, Olam Haba and Simchat Torah

Keziah welcomes Annie Gottfried Cohen to share her extensive research on Jewish cemetery rituals, grave measuring and connecting with ancestors through ritual practices, especially in the context of historical upheavals and modern dispersal.

key topics

• Jewish cemetery rituals and their history
• Cemetery measuring and its significance
• Connecting with ancestors through ritual
• Impact of Holocaust and dispersal on ritual practice
• Elul as a time for ancestral veneration
• Role of prayer and ritual in healing trauma

Av is here and with it Leo fiery warmt. This month Bronya and Keziah sit the sharp duality of Tisha B'Av's mourning sitting just days before Tu B'Av's love and celebration. They dig into Samantha Ellis' Chopping Onions on My Heart and Michael Wex's Born to Kvetch, alongside all things summery.

Bashert is a podcast that celebrates the magic of the Jewish calendar; weaving together ritual practice, astrology of the month ahead and doikayt over a cup of tea.

Submit to Bashert's basherts, or just say hi at [email protected].

Tammuz has arrived, carrying cancer season's tides, the summer solstice and the long defiant heat of midsummer. This month Bronya and Keziah discuss Dumuzid, archeological digs and Chrysanthemum competitions.

We've been quiet for the last two New Moons while the cosmos got a little messy behind the scenes. To make it up to you, we're running a Lunar Release Week: this episode is live today, the second missed episode drops on the Full Moon (29 July), and we're back to our regular schedule with new content on the New Moon (12 August).

Bashert is a podcast that celebrates the magic of the Jewish calendar; weaving together ritual practice, astrology of the month ahead and doikayt over a cup of tea.

Submit to Bashert's basherts, or just say hi at [email protected].

Join us for our first interview with Leeds' renowned Jewish dissident Robert Cohen, who recently completed his PhD at King’s College London where he was researching Generation Z British Jews in solidarity with Palestinians.

You can hear more from Robert on X @RobertCohen2

Sivan arrives with revelation and celebration. Put up your flower garlands, smother yourself in schmear and call it a cheesecake. Join Bronya and Keziah to learn about Gemini season in this month's episode.

Hiyar! Taurus season is upon us with blooming May flowers, Beltane fires and the stubborn tenacity that Iyar season brings. Count your blessings as Bronya and Keziah learn about the Omer, Oxen and Keziah's menstrual tea recipe.