The Yentas do sex-ed! It's just us on the pod today, and we're wading deep into the world of consent education. I know, HOT. And Jewish!

We Yenta about:

- Bystander intervention

- Yes means yes is kind of dumb

- High schoolers are kind of dumb

- The ways we've been dumb

- Antonia is writing the world's best screenplay

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

2:08 - Welcome to Yenta

3:52 - Bystander intervention

9:42 - Trauma is tricky

16:06 - Yes means yes

20:02 - How to make art about consent

25:01 - Pleasure

32:54 - When you make a mistake

43:47 - How to be a good lover

It's a second installment of everyone's favorite ex-Orthodox queers: The Orthodykes!! Leah Forster and Melissa Weisz are back, and they brought their juicy secrets! (Extra secrets on the Patreon.)

We Yenta about:

- Are we healthy enough for a relationship?

- Writing a book about Oct 7

- Leaving a cult

- Getting into another cult

- Tallits are just fidget spinners

- And SECRETS

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

Melissa Weisz: 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

2:34 - Healing Era

5:27 - Social Media Shame

13:48 - Leah's second book

19:57 - Tallits are fidget toys

21:05 - Is everything is holy?

24:15 - Secrets

THE ORTHODYKES ARE BACK. Everyone's favorite Yentas are in LA, and they have so many opinions! Have you ever wanted to hear what Orthodox people really think of Reform Judaism...? IT'S JUICY.

WE CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. THIS IS THE BEST GOSSIP WE'VE EVER HAD ON THE PODCAST. Tatyana Guchi is an icon of the LA standup scene, a featured comic on Sirius XM, and the provider of the BEST STORY WE'VE EVER HEARD. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

We Yenta about:

- Lots of cool stuff

- And then a secret from her love life that is soooo juicy we literally lose our minds

- Also religion, queerness, comedy philosophy, fashion, yada yada

- AND MORE GOSSIP

Tatyana Guchi: https://www.instagram.com/tatyanaguchi/?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:

0:00:00 - Intro

00:04:46 - Comedy career

00:13.40 - Comedy philosophy

00:23:00 - Performing out of LA

00:26:09 - Growing up Pentecostal

00:28:31 - Choosing your own religious practice

00:36:51 - Social media philosophy

00:38:18 - Fashion philosophy

00:43:20 - Queer philosophy

00:48:53: THE SECRET OMG OMG OMG OMG

He's queer, he's Jewish, and he's the internet's favorite ventriloquist! It's Zack Binder and his friend Ticklemuff!!! Ticklemuff is a Jewish icon, and the very first puppet Yenta. You cannot miss this episode.

What We Yenta About:

- Getting more Jewy with age

- Queer Shabbat

- Comedy advice, but like actually good, we promise

- The philosophy of puppets

- So how do you feel about God?

- Bombing with Ticklemuff

- Raye has the world's dumbest secret

- Ticklmeuff makes an appearance

Zack Binder: https://www.instagram.com/zack_binder/

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

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

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

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:45 - Becoming More Observant

00:09:14 - Meeting Through Queer Shabbat

00:20:00 - Comedy Philosophy

00:23:15 - How do you feel about God?

00:30:20 - The origin of Ticklemuff

00:39:20 - Secrets

00:54:00 - Debut of Tickle Muff

This episode starts with singing- NEED WE SAY MORE?? We talked to the it-couple of the LA Jewish/comedy/music/queer world: Marnina Schon (Chanshi, Droupout, UCB) and Micah O'Konis (Dropout, UCB)!!!! They really prove that you can be hot, funny, and talented. We're not jealous.

We Yenta about:

- Being famous B'Mitzvah tutotrs

- Jewish Joy (sooooo important)

- Marnina only dates people who work in Jewish education

- Our future Jewish commune

- Their star turn as high holiday music leaders at the JCC!!

- Nonbinary fashion problems

- Looking straight, being queer

- Fave Jewish songs

Marnina Schon: https://www.instagram.com/marninaschon/?hl=en

Micah O'Konis: https://www.instagram.com/mmmokonis/

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

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

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

Timestamps00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:46 - Stars of the Jewish World

00:09:55 - Meeting Through JCC

00:14:03 - Dream Jewish Community

00:21:17 - SONGS!!

00:24:36 - Celebrity B-Mitzvahs

00:32:46 - Relationship Goss

00:35:19 - Looking Queer

00:40:02 - Non-Binary Presentation

00:46:25 - Secrets

Raye's sister is here!! Becca Schiller is genetically great at gossip. This is an episode for everyone who's ever watched an older sibling come out and thought... I could do better. (All the really explicit stuff is on Patreon this week, and it's JUICY.)

We Yenta about

- Watching Raye come out

- Becca/Raye are basically twins

- How Becca came out

- Judgement in the Orthodox Community (Shocking, we know)

- When Raye was really religious

- And the juicy stuff is on Patreon: Throuples, toxic relationship, dirty videos

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

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

Becca Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/beccaschills/

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

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:36 - Sibling Reveal

00:07:59 - Raye's Religious Transformation

00:10:53 - Having A Queer Family

00:18:05 - Raye's Coming Out

00:22:14 - Orthodox Community Judgment

00:23:47 - Becca's Coming Out

00:34:06 - Romantic Gossip

00:35:05 - Patreon Teaser

It's Just Us today, and we are wrestling with the future!!

We Yenta about:

- The gender politics of bellydancing

- Future of the pod

- High Holidays trauma

- LA shuls

- Nobody Wants This

- The Ick

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

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

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

00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:01 - High Holidays

00:16:18 - Podcast Future

00:28:40 - The Hot Rabbi

00:38:12 - The Ick

Raye had a threesome at their Torah teacher's wedding. With their Torah teacher's sister. Liana is that Torah teacher.

Liana Wertman is the literal genius behind The Torah Studio (the premier online Jewish school for cool people), and she happens to be an expert at everything the Yentas love: comedy, Judaism, and being hot. This is a TOP TIER episode.

We Yenta about:

- Liana runs the queer jewish community of LA

- How to teach Torah, but not like a loser

- Shabbos envangelism

- SciFi/Fantasy rant (Raye dies inside)

- High Holidays rant

- Jewish weddings rant

- Brat Summer, BRAT diet

- Raye had a crush on Liana

- Big wedding gossip

Liana Wertman: https://www.thetorahstudio.org/

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

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

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

A fan favorite Yenta is back! If you don't know Avital Ash's unbelievably popular TikTok/Edinburgh Fringe show/Netflix writing gig, then you should know that Avital is on the short list of the most famous ex-Orthodox comedians! (What a list.)

Stuff we yenta about:

- Chronic fatigue. Hot.

- Houdini was Jewish??

- Giving up your life for a Netflix show

- Edinburgh gossip

- What changed since getting married

- RUMINATION. ANXIETY.

- Body goss

- Raye and Antonia have their first fight

- Doing shabbat again

Avital Ash: https://www.instagram.com/avitalash/?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

00:00 - Intro