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Do you suffer from Friendship FOMO? Heartburn, fatigue, painful stabs of jealousy while looking at Instagram? Rabbi Shira and Hanna will provide some relief. Podcast host and producer Lauren Ober writes in. And Shira lets out her inner mean girl.  

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Saving seats at services is almost as old as Judaism itself. But should you do it?

A newly converted Jewish listener bristles at this convention and wonders if it’s ok to make her friends and family fend for themselves if they can’t make it on time. 

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Should second weddings be modest? Or is it kosher to go full bridezilla?

A listener asks for advice on how to deal with her sister’s seemingly over-the-top requests for her second Jewish wedding.

2nd weddings in the Torah:

Abraham and Ketura 

Boaz and Ruth

Rabbi Akiva 

Rav 

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A Grandma asks Rabbi Shira and Hanna how to share Jewish traditions with her grandchildren. How can she share these traditions without overstepping? How can she be a Jewish grandparent at a distance?

Resources for Jewish grandparents: 

Jewish Grandparents Network

PJ Library

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The news is awful, and everything feels terrible. Now go celebrate! 

A news-obsessed listener asks for advice on how to be less negative at home. Is it ok to check out and still be a good Jew? And could Debbie Downer have been Jewish?

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The next best thing to being in the synagogue with Rabbi Shira…Tune in to Rabbi Shira’s sermon for this year’s Yom Kippur. 

We want to live in a world of the everlasting yes--but what do we do when we get the terminal no, instead?

Read about the death and burial of Moses

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A special episode on October 7th:

A year after the attack by Hamas on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza, Rabbi Shira and Hanna mourn the loss of life and talk about what else has been lost in the trauma of ongoing war with an uncertain future. 

A young Jewish listener asks for advice on how to navigate tension between her two friend groups on opposite sides of the Israel debate.

Read Can We Talk About Israel by Dan Sokatch

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Live from Washington D.C.! 

Rabbi Shira and Hanna are answering your real life questions live at a special event in Washington D.C. – a city known for its scandal and intrigue. A married listener is having an affair and has no plans to stop. Should he still repent on Yom Kippur?

Special thanks to Adas Israel Congregation in Washington D.C.

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After her wife of more than two decades passed suddenly, our listener is struggling how to spend time by herself again, and how to tell her wonderful, well-meaning community to give her space.

More on being "alone"

More on Jewish Shiva rituals 

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Rabbi Shira and Hanna are joined by Rabbi Sharon Brous to talk about what she calls the “The Amen Effect” – what it means to be heard and seen during times of joy and grief and how a deeper connection to the Jewish community can actually help us cross tribal lines. Rabbi Brous is the founder of IKAR, an influential progressive Jewish congregation in Los Angeles and the author of The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World.

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