Treyf Podcast

On this episode, we try to crowdsource a new tagline for the podcast, kicking off the #treyftagline twitter campaign - send us your ideas! We're then joined by Hani Ghazi, organizer with Adalah NY, for a new instalment of BDS Watch Watch about NY Governor Cuomo's recent executive order to criminalize BDS. Sam introduces our first listener-submitted Shkoyach and David tries to understand a confrontation between far-right activists and Israeli tourists in the Ukraine. For the interview we're joined by Carl Rosenberg, editor of Outlook Magazine, to talk about closing the doors on Canada's last remaining leftist Jewish publication. We talk about Outlook's final issue and the legacy he hopes they leave behind.

Show notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/06/29/episode-19-the-end-of-leftist-jewish-publishing/

We spoke with Mo Martin and Michal Richardson of the Radio Free Babylonia podcast!

( http://radiofreebabylonia.org )

You can find our recent article here: https://jewschool.com/2016/06/76886/anti-semitism-canada/

We spoke to Naomi Dann, an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, who attended the recent anti-BDS conference held in New York City.

Show notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/06/08/bds-watch-watch/

We spoke with writer and activist Mark Tseng Putterman about his recent article for Jewschool.com, "Diversity Won't Challenge Jewry's Role in White Supremacy."

Show notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/06/02/limits-of-diversity/

It’s our ‘Chai’ episode! We started it off talking about Italian Eurocommunism and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). We were then joined by Josh Nathan Kazis, a staff writer at the Jewish Daily Forward, to talk about a growing scandal in New York City politics, reaching from the Mayor’s office to the orthodox communities of Borough Park and Williamsburg. This episode contained a description-free Shkoyach, featuring discussions of kosher labelling, kosher restaurant month, and the contentious subject of raisin challah. For the interview, we talked about the Jews of Color National Convening with conference organizer Leo Ferguson and Montreal activist Hirut Eyob. Finally, Aviva Stahl’s recent article for Alternet’s Grayzone Project is our recommendation for the week.

Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/05/26/episode-18/

*EDIT: during this week's Shkoyach segment, David convinced Sam that COR stood for 'Council of Orthodox Rabbis.' This is incorrect. It appears that COR is not an acronym at all, instead a mysterious shorthand used by the Kashruth Council of Canada to label their certified products. Please direct all questions their way.

We spoke with Joseph Finlay, former deputy editor of the Jewish Quarterly and founding member of Jewdas, to try to understand the anti-semitism scandal going on right now in the UK's Labour Party.

Show notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/05/18/uk-antisemitism/

We're back after a one month hiatus! On this week’s episode, we talked with activist and journalist Jesse Myerson about his recent exchange with the Forward’s JJ Goldberg, and the Jewish media’s coverage of Bernie Sanders.

We took a new approach to describing the Shkoyach segment, Sam talked about a Chassidic gang in Borough Park, and David awarded his Shkoyach to a Montreal synagogue distancing themselves from an illegal kosher wine ring.

For the interview, we were joined by Michelle Weiser from the new group If Not Now to talk about their origins, their Liberation Seder actions, and their strategy of confronting the institutional Jewish community.

Finally, the deadline to submit to the new issue of Jenna Brager's Doykeit Zine is rapidly approaching - we spoke with her briefly for this week's recommendation.

Show notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/05/12/chassidic-gangs/

Continuing our month off, we thought we'd share another recording we found during Pesach cleaning over at Treyf HQ. We hope you enjoy this previously-unaired attempt at reviving our favourite failed segment.

We check in with the CKUT 90.3 FM coordinators

On this week’s episode: we cleared the air on statements made about Jewish hockey players, condemned the Canadian Jewish News’ questionable news coverage, and talked about grogger’s (yet again). We spoke with +972 journalist Mairav Zonszein about what got lost in the conversations about Trump’s speech at the AIPAC conference. Shkoyakhs were given to BDS activists in Oshawa, Ontario, and to a robot who infiltrated an Open Hillel event. Sigal Samuel, the Forward’s Opinion Editor, joined us for the Interview. We talked about Mizrahi-Palestinian Solidarity, and the popularity of intersectionality in the North American Jewish press. Our recommendation goes to the Independent Jewish Voices' Statement of Support for the Blacks Students Network at McGill University.

Show notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/03/30/episode-16-mizrahi-palestinian-solidarity-with/