Treyf Podcast

On this episode (recorded before the US election) we spoke with Brant Rosen, co-founder of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council, Midwest Regional Director for the American Friends Service Committee, and the Rabbi of Tzedek Chicago, a new 'non-Zionist' synagogue he helped found last summer. We spoke about his journey from liberal Zionism to Palestine solidarity and what it means to practice a "Judaism beyond nationalism." Finally, our Shkoyachs for this week went to Indigenous land defenders across the continent.

Shownotes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/11/10/23-non-zionist-synagogues/

On this week’s episode, we talked about CKUT’s funding drive (please donate if you can!), a journalist who doesn’t understand our tagline, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s visit to a synagogue, and that giant cross of secularism. We were joined by Annie Cohen to discuss Jewdas’ recent Yom Kippur Ball, as well as the collective’s organizing against the institutional Jewish community in the UK. Finally, we spoke with Sandy Fox of the recently-launched podcast Vaybertaytsh, to talk about Yiddish, Feminism, and podcasting.

Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/10/26/yiddish_feminism/

On this episode, we focused on the new white supremacist movement calling itself the 'Alt-Right'. We called Daniel Sieradski, founder of Jewschool.com & creator of the Nazi Detector App, to talk about (((echoes))), internet Nazis, and the failures of Jewish media. We then spoke with Matthew Lyons, author of a soon-to-be-released book about the US far right, about the origins of this new movement and who it's targets are. We ended the show with our usual Shkoyach segment, Sam giving his to a meme and David awarding theirs to an unusual choice of attire.

Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/10/13/alt-right/

As part of our one-year anniversary special last month, we spoke with Yoni Goldstein - editor of the Canadian Jewish News. Unfortunately the episode went long and we weren't able to fit it, so here it is! For the special occasion, we made efforts to find areas of common ground before diving into our usual disagreements. Our conversation covered the important topics of: secret caverns underneath David and Yoni's high school, Sam and Yoni's similar starts in journalism, white Jewish men trying to style their curly hair, and the reason 'leftist' voices in the CJN are only ever Zionist.

Show notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/09/28/short-cjn-editor-yoni-goldstein/

Sam returns to the studio and we reflect on some recent incidents of anti-Semitism on the left in Canada. We then speak with Spencer Sunshine, an anti-fascist activist and researcher, about Christopher Bollyn, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and holocaust denier who recently gave a talk at a leftist space in New York City. Spencer was part of a protest held outside the event, and explains the context surrounding it.

Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/09/21/short-anti-semitism-on-the-left-with-spencer-sunshine/

On this one-year anniversary extravaganza episode, we look back and reflect on the first year of the podcast. Over the hour, we check in with some of the people who help make the show possible: Aaron Lakoff and Tamara Filyavich (CKUT 90.3 FM), Kira Page (Treyf Social Media Consultant), Claire Hurtig (Treyf Minister of Design), and David's Mom (Sarah)! It's a long episode, but we couldn't cut out the wide range of discussions that include Roseanne Barr’s trolling of our Twitter account, the "hammy jokester" vs “straight man” personas, the growth and rising popularity of our Shkoyach segment, and how David earned the nickname "the Tofu Cucumber Kid."

Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/09/07/ep-20-one-year-anniversary-extravaganza/

We spoke with Kenyon Zimmer, author of the new book 'Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America.' We talked about the history of Yiddish Anarchism in America, how many people were involved, how it influenced US immigration policy, and what led to the decline of the movement.

Show notes:https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/09/01/short-yiddish-anarchism-in-america-with-kenyon-zimmer/

While the Institutional Jewish Community condemned the Movement for Black Lives this month, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice held weekly 'Jews for Black Lives' actions across New York City. David spoke with Shoshana Brown, an organizer with JFREJ's Jews of Color Caucus, about these actions as well as the fraught media discourse surrounding the Movement for Black Lives platform.

We then played a segment produced by WBAI reporter Mitchel Cohen, documenting the August 11th Jews for Black Lives march that culminated in the arrest of seven Jews of Color.

Show Notes:

Movement for Black Lives Platform

https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/

JFREJ Jews4BlackLives Actions:

http://jfrej.org/largest-ever-mobilization-of-jews-for-black-lives-matter/

Mitchel Cohen's WBAI Report:

https://archive.org/details/JewsForRacialEconomicJusticeRallyAndArrestsForBlackLivesMatter20160811

For this week's short we spoke with Ariana Katz, creator of the Kaddish podcast - a new show about death, mourning, and the people who do it.

(You can listen to Kaddish here: https://soundcloud.com/user-544994582 )

We spoke with M. Dove Kent, outgoing director of JFREJ, about the group's work, the direction they're headed, and how the organization has changed since it's founding 25 years ago.