Karen sits down with Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, a writer and activist committed to taking a clear-eyed look at where things are going wrong in the Jewish world in 2022 - and how we can fix them. Shoshanna discusses her work to advance the rights of Jewish women in the Orthodox community and shares some much-needed advice on how we can come together as a unified Jewish people (even when we disagree!). Whatever your place in the Jewish world, this is such an important conversation filled with so much wisdom about how to stop being a bystander and make change happen.

 

You’ll find out:

 

- Why we need to stop judging each other as Jews

- The importance of differentiating between what people do and what God says

- The dangers of increasing polarization in the Jewish world

- How Shoshanna’s fighting against the erasure of women by Jewish extremists 

- Why being holy doesn’t mean being hidden

- Why we always need to remember that rabbis are human beings too 

- The importance of being the bigger mensch 

- Why every Jews should feel empowered to own their own Judaism

- The damage caused when people forget that Judaism is all about the middle ground

- Why the worst thing in the world is a bystander

- Shoshanna’s strategy for talking about Israel 

 

LINKS:

 

How to Stand Up to Antisemitism

https://yourjewishlife.co/stop 

 

Shoshanna’s Website

https://www.skjaskoll.com/ 

 

Shoshanna on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/shoshanna_keats_jaskoll 

 

Shoshanna on Twitter

https://twitter.com/skjask 

 

Chochmat Nashim

https://www.chochmatnashim.org/ 

 

Jewish Life Photo Bank

https://jewishlifephotos.com/ 

 

Smashing Life, my private Jewish community

https://smashinglife.club/ 

 

JMeetups.com, where you can find love across our global Jewish community

https://jmeetups.com/