Hello! and welcome to Talking in Shul, a roundtable podcast. I’m your host, Tamar Fox, and I’ve got Zahava Stadler joining us from Toronto. Hi Zahava! Mimi Lewis is taking a break this month, but we’re thrilled to welcome past and future guest Yael Kalman, who is joining us from Minneapolis. Hi Yael! This month […]

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This month we’re talking about Passover, talking about our favorite rituals, texts, foods, and more.  Passover favorites Ritual Mimi: Hallel (when it happens!) and washing each others hands Zahava: Reciting the entire Hagaddah out loud, in unison, with my family Tamar: Making pickles the night before the holiday begins Text Tamar: Letter to My Old […]

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This month we’re talking about Jewish influencers. What/how are the influencing us, and what trends do we see and like or dislike? “Influencer” can feel like a very shallow field–one that’s obsessed with trends and how things look to attract likes, views, followers. So what happens when influencers are speaking from a Jewish space? Raizy […]

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This month we’re talking about how we prioritize kid services and programming versus our own communal needs. What is our ideal, and what we have we seen that didn’t work for us. Endorsements Mimi endorses Kapelya, an album of women singing Hasidic melodies soon to be released by the artist RAZA, watching the Klimovitcher Nigun […]

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This month we’re talking about being Jewish at work.  How do we explain and present ourselves as Jews at a Jewish workplace, or a non-Jewish workplace? 1 in 4 hiring managers say they’re less likely to hire Jewish applicants by Kathryn Moody in HR Dive Zahava’s short twitter thread about a work conversation after the […]

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Hello! and welcome to Talking in Shul, a roundtable podcast. I’m your host, Tamar Fox, and I’ve got Zahava Stadler joining us from Toronto. Hi Zahava! And Mimi Lewis is joining us from Somerville, MA. Hi Mimi!  You may have noticed that we took a bit of a break since our last episode. We are […]

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Beauty Queen of Jerusalem Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a new show on Netflix (it previously came out as 20 30 min episodes in Israel. Netflix has made it into 10 hour long episodes). It follows the ​​Hermosas, a wealthy Sephardic family who own a shop in Machane Yehuda in Jerudalem. Gabriel runs the shop, […]

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This month we’re talking about a YouTube special called Recipe for Change: Standing up to Antisemism. And for our second segment we’re talking about how the expected end of Roe v Wade impacts the Jewish community, and how the Jewish community can and should be responding. For that segment we’ll be talking with my good […]

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This month we’re talking about the TN school ban of Maus, and other attempts to limit education around difficult or uncomfortable subjects like the Holocaust and slavery.  And for our second segment we’re, oof, we are getting ready for pesach and thinking about some Seder topics we are (and aren’t) excited to discuss at our […]

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This month we’re talking Marcie Greenfield Simons about what it’s like to be an interfaith chaplain in these intense covid times.   And for our second segment we’re talking about a series of video documentaries from the Times of Israel about three somewhat neglected populations within Jerusalem: secular Jews, Christians, and Arabs who might want to […]

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