Yenta!

Rachel Olshin (Hamantaschen Monologues) is here to make your frum gay fantasies come true. This feels like a classic Yenta: we get deep into yiddishkeit, queer politics, and Raye threatens to have a threesome.

We Yenta about:

- Queer kids in modern orthodox schools

- The queer frum cultures hiding in major cities

- If you're bi, are you shomer negiah for everyone?

- Going flat with a mastectomy

- Choosing Judiasm for yourself, not your family

- Why Raye needs bungee cords

Announcement! You're invited to take part in the Yenta Matchmaking Experiment!! If you want to be matched with a potential date from the Yenta listener universe, you can submit your profile now! Starting in March 2025, we'll be releasing Patreon episodes of "Yenta Matchmaking", where we go in detail behind the scenes of the matchmaking process. More info here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7TuxHM4DOMN_xfEDkfdhjE9EHjMH7mIoBlFu2N7sQEDiQyg/viewform?usp=dialog

Rachel Olshin: https://www.hamantaschenmonologues.com/

Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar

Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

3:41 - Meet Rachel Olshin

5:52 - Growing up modern Orthodox

10:45 - Being queer and still observant

15:00 - Jewish matchmaking

20:30 - Frum summer programs

24:42 - If you weren't queer

29:30 - The queer frum utopia

40:42 - Mastectomy secrets

David Zucker is the brain behind the most popular comedy marketing blog on Substack. We talk about being legally blind, touring with clowns, and every single thing we are doing wrong with our podcast.

We Yenta about:

- Jewish frats

- Austin comedy v Brooklyn comedy

- Following your clown brother around the world

- Everything that comedians need to know about marketing themselves

- The steamy goss of linktrees...

Announcement! You're invited to take part in the Yenta Matchmaking Experiment!! If you want to be matched with a potential date from the Yenta listener universe, you can submit your profile now! Starting in March 2025, we'll be releasing Patreon episodes of "Yenta Matchmaking", where we go in detail behind the scenes of the matchmaking process. More info here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7TuxHM4DOMN_xfEDkfdhjE9EHjMH7mIoBlFu2N7sQEDiQyg/viewform?usp=dialog

David Zucker: https://davidzucker.substack.com/

Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar

Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta

0:00 - Intro

4:50 - David's Substack

6:15 - Jewish frats

6:30 - Always being an outsider

8:35 - Growing up Jewish

11:00 - Dropping out of school to manage clowns

13:54 - Talking shop: How to improve your social media

33:31 - Looking for collective effervescence

39:30 - Can influencers be good stage performers?

48:58 - Secrets/How to hack your disability

Mari Taren (lesbian TikTok legend/casting producer on Queer Ultimatum) is back!!! This is a fan favorite Yenta, and she's back with big updates to her dating life, comedy career, and opinions about Jewish necklaces.

We Yenta about:

- Looking for a viable womb

- The gay shul was too gay

- Strap on anxiety

- Mari's huge new show

Mari Taren: https://www.instagram.com/mariel_taren/?hl=en

Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar

Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta

Timestamps

- 4:45 - Intro

- 5:38 - Being late bloomers

- 7:51 - Strap on anxiety

- 18:08 - Obligatory jewish check-in

- 25:35 - The Joy of Being Single

- 33:18 - Freezing your eggs

- 38:30 - Politics suck & Rachel Maddow rocks

- 41:12 - Mari's amazing new show

Introducing our new four part miniseries!!! The Orthodykes are back, and now we're a sexy yeshiva!

Each episode will feature these four luminaries of the queer Jewish world (Antonia Lassar, Raye Schiller, Leah Forster, Melissa Weisz) and will cover a new Torah question. This week we've decided to stop being so cis, and we're talking nothing but nonbinary! (BTW, apologies for the wonky audio, we're optimizing that for next episode. Thanks bbs.)

And we're giving a huge Yenta thank you to The Queerkeit Initiative for funding this series.

We Yenta about:

- Finding the perfect study partner

- Our younger selves would be dying over this queer torah study

- How does the mishnah talk about nonbinary people?

- The Torah definitions of sex and gender

- Is it important to ask queer Torah questions?

- Vibrators too. Duh.

Announcing the Yenta Matchmaking initiative! If you want to be matched with another incredibly hot Yenta listener, submit your application today! Anyone can submit to be matched, but only Patreon listeners will be able to listen in on the matchmaking process in our new Patreon series: Yenta Matchmaking!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7TuxHM4DOMN_xfEDkfdhjE9EHjMH7mIoBlFu2N7sQEDiQyg/viewform?usp=dialog

Resources:

Understanding the Androgynos Sefaria source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/385624?lang=bi

Terms for gender diversity in classical jewish texts: https://transtorah.org/PDFs/Classical_Jewish_Terms_for_Gender_Diversity.pdf

Androgynos and Tumtum Sefaria source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/113417?lang=bi

Calling non-binary people to the Torah:

https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/calling-non-binary-people-to-torah-honors-cjls-oh-139_3-2022-final.pdf

The Holiness of Twilight by Reuben Zellman: https://www.transtorah.org/PDFs/Holiness_of_Twilight.pdf

Halakha Beyond The Binary by Laynie Soloman: https://svara.org/halakha-beyond-the-binary/

Leah Forster: https://www.instagram.com/leahforster/?hl=en

Melissa Wesiz: https://www.instagram.com/melissaweisz/?hl=en

Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar

Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

12:55 - How the mishnah defines nonbinary

31:20 - Where do nonbinary people fit into halacha?

42:33 - Kabbalah of nonbinary

46:37 - Queerness of Purim

51:55 - The Holiness of Twilight

58:26 - Final takeaways

It's just us Yentas today, and we're giving out our sage wisdom! It's the ADVICE EPISODE! Thank you to all the amazing listeners who wrote in with juuuuuuuicy questions. And we even answer a vintage question from 1906 that literally could have been written by a Gen Z.

We Yenta about:

- Coming out to your religious family

- Ethical Non-Monog

- The famous dick measuring contest in the Talmud

- Should you study Gemara?

- Our upcoming series with the Orthodykes!!

Time stamps:

- 0:00 - intro

- 8:35 - Question one: Coming out to religious family

- 18:49 - Question two: Ethical Non-Monogamy

- 25:28 - Question three: Feeling guilty about poly

- 28:25 - Question four: Making up fake Halacha

- 35:30 - Question five: Should I learan Gemara?

- 42:23 - Question six: Vintage Jewish problems

Wow Yentas this episode is one of the most fun, kinky, and just plain wild Yenta episodes we've ever had! Our guest is Eli Olsberg (TBS, Chelsea Lately) and he gets hilarious and vulnerable with us as he tells us his goss about the variety of sex clubs he's been to. Honestly we might get demonetized for this but it's worth it. (Also Antonia is still out of town, so we have the iconic co-host, returning Yenta Martin Morrow!)

We yenta about:

- Dave Chappelle on SNL

- The difference between MMF vs MFM (there is one!)

- How to go from being scared of sex parties to being a regular go-er

- Fetlife vs Feeld vs Thrinder

- Do you go to hell if you masterbate

- Jewish vs Baptist ideas about masterbation

Eli Olsberg: https://www.instagram.com/eliolsberg/

Raye Schiller https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

Guest co-host: Martin Morrow

https://www.instagram.com/martinmmorrow/

Bonus episodes and yenta:

https://www.patreon.com/yenta

Timestamps:

- 0:00 - Intro

- 6:23 - Performing for swingers

- 7:34 - Eli's kinky journey

- 12:46 - Babygirl debreif

- 19:06 - Sex Party GOSSIP

- 37:11 - Dating in comedy and the sex party world

- 41:33 - Eli's comedy career

- 47:50 - Martin's journey to sex parties

Ryan Goodcase is a comedian who went suuuuper viral with a joke that's actually funny-- not just controversial-- which is the Olympic gold medal of comedy. We love him!! Also, Raye has an exciting guest cohost, Genesis Sol, and we love her too! (Antonia is still out of town, but she's coming back!)

We Yenta about:

- Penises (classic us)

- Disecting Ryan's super viral joke

- Good old religious trauma (classic us)

- Neuroscience day jobs

- Do your parents love you? (classic us)

Ryan Goodcase: https://www.instagram.com/ryangoodcase/?hl=en

Genesis Sol: https://www.instagram.com/thegenesissol/

Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar

Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

3:38 - Disecting the viral joke

12:52 - Do your parents support standup?

16:08 - Nerdy day jobs

18:00 - Netflix is a joke

24:47 - Religious trauma

32:29 - Secrets

Did you know the Jewish Memes Only account was run by the coolest lesbian in Australia??? This week we hung out with Shoshana Gottlieb (Jewish Memes Only) and her amazing girlfriend Skye Tal (famous Australian actor). Honestly this conversation is 10/10, Jewish Gossip Only.

We Yenta about:

- Having a fan club at Limmud

- More Limmud gossip

- British Jews are... unique

- Talmud takes on lesbians

- Gay heroes of the Talmud

Shoshana Gottlieb: https://www.instagram.com/jewishmemesonly/?hl=en

Skye Tal: https://www.instagram.com/skyetal/?__d=1%2F

Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar

Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta

Eliana Light (Orah Hi, Light Lab) is on the pod, and we are so pumped to have this literal tzaddik here to talk about her world-famous Jewish music and her job teaching rabbis how to not suck.

(Also, we're sorry for the mediocre video quality! This is Antonia's first solo episode on the road, and she fucked up the video.🙂 But she didn't fuck up the interview!)

We Yenta about:

- Limmud gossip

- Why do prayer services suck so much?

- Eliana is a literal musical hero

- How to have GOOD MUSIC at shul

- Jewish songleader culture is insane

Eliana Light: https://www.elianalight.com/

Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar

Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta

Timestamps

- 0:00 - Intro

- 6:27 - What is Limmud?

- 9:37 - Prayer services suck

- 15:38 - How to improve bad services

- 21:16 - Listen to Eliana's album!!!!

- 23:20 - How to do good singing

- 25:53 - Permission to suck

- 29:06 - Songleader culture

- 37:24 - Ingredients of a transcendent singing experience

- 41:18 - Take initiative as a layperson

- 50:45 - The secret!!

Catherine Mcafferty (Hulu, Amazon, Freevee) is a fan-favorite Yenta, so for the holidays, we're re-releasing this classic episode!

We Yenta about:

- Fans who want to bone you.

- Catherine's new series Pretty Gay, that's pretty perfect, pretty hilarious, pretty gay

- The creators of Dropout are producing Catherine's new show because they literally believe in her so hard.

- Catherine doesn't want to treat men like human beings. Cool cool cool.

- Catherine's mom is a super queer ally... and also probably bi.

- The strategy of doing a show at Edinburgh. Get a publicist. Write something brilliant. Live your dreams.

- Catherine hasn't been to a WNBA game. BAD GAY.

- RAYE DID DRUGS. SCANDAL??????

- ANTONIA IS A FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN CELEBRITY???

- CATHERINE FUCKED A CELEBRITY AND IT'S LITERALLY SO JUICY I CANNOT. BEST EVER POD SECRET!!! THE YENTAS ARE STILL KVELLING.

https://www.patreon.com/PrettyGay

https://www.patreon.com/yenta

https://www.instagram.com/catherine_mccaff/

https://www.instagram.com/rayeontheway/

https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar/

(00:00:10) Midwestern Moms and Homophobia

(00:00:32) An Unexpected Fan Encounter

(00:02:11) Dressing for a Podcast

(00:02:36) Sorority Rush and TikTok Fashion

(00:03:50) Introducing Comic Catherine

(00:04:11) Launching a Patreon Series

(00:05:41) Queer Comedians and First Dates

(00:07:09) Dropout TV and Yenta Connections

(00:08:01) The Queer Ultimatum Concept

(00:09:09) Creating the "Pretty Gay" Series

(00:15:10) Moms and Bisexuality

(00:17:18) Edinburgh Show and Personal Stories

(00:22:11) Dream Comedian Careers and Queer Influencers

(00:24:47) Queer Relationship Dynamics

(00:27:45) Best Queer Parties in LA

(00:29:43) Queer Red Flags

(00:31:38) Astrology Beliefs and Practices

(00:32:54) Secrets Segment Begins

(00:47:52) Being Flown Out for Dates

(00:57:18) Celebrity Encounters and Power Dynamics

(01:03:41) Show Plugs and Wrap Up