Bet Debora - Jewish Women's Perspectives

Bet Debora - Jewish Women's Perspectives

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Bet Debora - Jewish Women's Perspectives episodes

  • Music is the Heart of the Service
    In this podcast Norli Lappin-Eppel talks to Rabbi Barbara Borts from Newcastle, England. They talk about the challenges women rabbis and women cantors are faced with and about the importance of music in synagogue services. Rabbi Borts also explains the connection between Yiddish and Yiddishkait and the different forms the practice of Judaism can take.

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    58 min
  • Dialogue - a Window to the Future
    Andrea Pető and Norli Lappin-Eppel talk with Simone Suskind from Bruxelles about her initiatives to foster a Jewish-Palestine dialogue as a way to reach a peaceful solution for the Middle East conflict. Simone talks about the Jewish Secular Center in Bruxelles, her achievements as a politician and her activities and ideas to fight antisemitism. Moreover, Simone describes her project of training women in order to become future political leaders in the Maghreb countries.

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    40 min
  • Es war ein Pionierspirit…
    Im neusten Podcast sprechen wir mit Martina Maschke aus Wien über die Bedeutung von jüdischer Erziehung im Allgemeinen und der Zwi Perez Chajes-Schule im Besonderen. Martina Maschke berichtet außerdem über die Verbesserung der Holocausterziehung in Österreich und die Zusammenarbeit mit Yad Vashem sowie über ihre Arbeit bei der International Holocaust Remembracne Alliance (IHRA), wo sie sich besonders für die Anerkennung des Roma-Genozids einsetzt.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Bayit - Building Jewish Homes in Europe
    In this podcast Tova Starik talks about her way from Zfat to New York and Vienna. In Vienna Tova and her husband Rabbi Moshe Starik established "Bayit", an organization that offers seminars for young Jewish professionals in order to help them to build Jewish homes in Europe. Tova also explains the philosophy of Chabad about lighting the spark in every Jew and bringing light to the world.

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    38 min
  • Jewish Renaissance in Spain
    Norli Lappin-Eppel talks with Dominique Tomasov Blinder in Barcelona about Jewish life in Spain, about the renewed interest of the Spanish government  and the Spanish population in Jewish heritage 500 years after the expulsion of Jews from Spain and about her personal efforts to preserve this heritage and make it known to a broad national and international public.

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Balsamic and coal: Two rabbis north and south chat

    In this podcast, Rabbi Dr Barbara Borts, who lives in Newcastle, England, and Rabbi Ariel Friedlander, who lives in Modena, Italy, talk about fostering progressive Jewish life in Italy, about how various strands of Judaism in the UK are dealing with the pandemic, and about how their pets have helped them to cope during the lockdowns in the UK and Italy. They share their feelings about the positive aspects and the difficult aspects of Jewish life during the past year.



    Music: Vermont Nocturne by Vally Weigl (1894 Vienna – 1982 New York) © Extraplatte

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    43 min
  • Welcome in Vienna, Central European University! Bet Debora in conversation with Andrea Petö, Professor for Gender Studies at the Central European University

    In this podcast Norli Lappin-Eppel speaks with Prof. Andrea Petö, Professor for Gender Studies at the Central European University (CEU), about the reasons why her university had to move from Budapest to Vienna and how this reflects the situation in Hungary. We also look back at the 4th International Bet Debora Conference, which took place in Budapest in August 2006 and was hosted by the CEU. Another topic of our talk is Andrea Petö’s research. Her focus are women in World War II: victims as well as perpetrators. She explains how these divergent topics are connected and why she thinks that it is important to reflect and talk about them.



    Music: Vermont Nocturne by Vally Weigl (1894 Vienna – 1982 New York) © Extraplatte

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    55 min
  • Vom Wert des Lebens. Ein Gespräch mit Barbara Prainsack, Professorin für Vergleichende Politikfeldanalyse an der Universität Wien und Professorin am Institut für Globale Gesundheit und Sozialmedizin

    In ihrem neuen Buch „Vom Wert des Lebens“ tritt Barbara Prainsack für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für alle Menschen, die in Österreich ihren Lebensmittelpunkt haben, ein. Sie erklärt, warum dies gerade angesichts der durch die Corona-Pandemie ausgelösten Wirtschaftskrise notwendig und wie es die Situation von Frauen positiv beeinflussen würde.



    Music: Vermont Nocturne by Vally Weigl (1894 Vienna – 1982 New York) © Extraplatte

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    38 min

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In our monthly podcasts we speak with different Jewish women from around the globe - rabbis and cantors, politicians and activists, artists and women in academia. We talk about their activities, their…