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Rabbi Shira shares her live conversation with New York Times' Opinion columnist David Brooks.* And on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) she talks about the importance of voting in the World Zionist Congress.

*This event was hosted by Sixth & I, a center for arts, entertainment, ideas, and Jewish life in Washington DC.

Vote in the World Zionist Congress

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On the eve of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Rabbi Shira asks a surprising question: Do we actually have to teach our kids about the Holocaust? (Spoiler Alert: She didn’t.)

She looks back at her own choices about Holocaust education and finds a way forward.

More resources for talking to your kids about the Holocaust and Antisemitism: 

Guidelines for Teaching The Holocaust 

Activities for Holocaust learning

Talking to Children About Antisemitism 

A Very Brief Guide to Antisemitism

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As we celebrate Passover during the current climate, Rabbi Shira talks to Hanna about what Judaism says about violence, resistance and freedom. And they speak to a Jewish gun owner about his choice to protect himself. 

More on preventing harm and stumbling blocks in the Torah

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Hanna asks the questions this week as we prepare for Passover. How do we tell and interpret the Passover story when it feels like we’re firmly stuck at the beginning of our own contemporary plight? Do we have the opportunity to have perhaps the most authentic seder any of us have had in our lived experience? Rabbi Shira has tips and wisdom for you as you prepare your own seders.

Add to your own Haggadot

And go out and learn!

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Are you Jewish enough? Too Jewish? Why are we Jews so judgy of one another? Rabbi Shira and Hanna receive a letter from a listener whose embrace of Judaism as an adult is making her less religious mother bristle.  

Read an example of Jewish judging in the Torah

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Ever wondered what an actual rabbi thinks about the temple board? What makes some temple communities work and others fail? Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a listener figure out whether or not to join her temple board.

Read more about Jewish responsibility to the community

Read more about Jewish leadership

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Hanna talks to Rabbi Shira about her new book The Jewish Way to a Good Life. She distills thousands of years of Jewish wisdom into practical, time-tested strategies for living a more meaningful life and reminds us: You don’t have to be Jewish to do Jewish. And she tells us how.

Get Shira’s book!

See Shira in conversation with David Brooks 

Read the story about crashing your rabbi's marital bed

Read more about Shabbat and rest

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Rabbi Shira makes a passionate plea to reclaim the holiday of Purim away from just the kids. But what does Jewish debauchery even look like? And why does it give Hanna the ick? 

Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk to “Sabbath Queen” Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, co-founder of LabShul,  about his family story, drag and finding Jewish joy in dark times…even for us adults.

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Read The Book of Esther

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Rabbi Shira and Hanna read a letter from a listener who has been nagging her husband to go to the doctor for over a decade. What does Judaism say about being responsible for your partner? And are we commanded to be good patients?

Read more Maimonides on medicine

Read more on health care in Judaism

Read about the commandments to take care of yourself

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We hear from a listener who spent a lifetime looking for love, hoping to become a parent. Now, single, childless and in his 70s he is asking WTF, God!?

Read the Book of Job

Read more about fate in Judaism

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