Making Mensches – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to part 2 of our episodes with Dr Bill! Some of you may know Dr Bill from the ⁠blog series he penned for our website⁠, describing his journey as an anti-zionist Jew in the 70s and 80s. We wanted to bring him on the podcast so you could hear from him in this way. He's very keen on questions, so please dm or email us if you have any for him. It would make him very happy to answer them :)

We'll be back with another episode soon 👀

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We've channeled our energy over the last 10 months to organizing around the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and aim to continue focusing our attention on Gaza while bringing back the podcast as a way to amplify calls for an end to genocide and occupation.

Our first episode back is with Dr Bill! Some of you may know Dr Bill from the blog series he penned for our website, describing his journey as an anti-zionist Jew in the 70s and 80s. We wanted to bring him on the podcast so you could hear from him in this way. He's very keen on questions, so please dm or email us if you have any for him. It would make him very happy to answer them :)

We will be back with part 2 next week, so stay tuned!

Already donated to direct funds to Gazans and want to support our work? You can do so here.

Get daily updates and info on events on our Instagram or our newsletter.

On this episode, we talk with Anna Rajagopal about being Houston’s biggest fan and the significance of our geographic homes, about loving and losing - especially in relation to Queer community, and the power of art and joy as resistance. 

We discuss Anna’s pieces about their friend and community member Audrey, those can be found HERE and HERE.

We also talk about their poem Alona Naomi, which can be found HERE.

Anna asked us to highlight the Instagram art page Art Auction for Palestine and talks about For the People, the queer/BIPOC Houston show management page. They have a show coming up in October if you are Houston based!

They recently had their writing featured as an art piece at the Everything Is Special Art Show by Hotel Chlorine.

If you want to read more of their published writing, you can find it here.

Join us next week as we talk to Micah Bazant (they/them), a visual artist and cultural strategist who works with social justice movements to reimagine the world.

As usual, shoutout to Nate for our podcast music and shoutout to Jessie for editing the podcast!

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Join us for a beautiful conversation with Astera (she/they) about diaspora, preservation, and the significance of language - especially Ladino ❤️‍🔥

Astera brings light to how powerful preserving language - like Ladino - and culture are, as ways to engage with art and continue creating art, and as ways to push back against zionism and other settler colonialism. 

You can listen to Astera’s podcast HERE, read their poem we talk about HERE, and read their article we mentioned HERE.

If you want more of their poetry, it’s HERE. She also plays piano HERE and has a mixed media IG HERE. Also, stay tuned because they will be published in Lilth Magazine this fall! 👀

The song Jessie mentioned can be found HERE. 

Join us for our next episode with @annarajagopal, they/she, a South Asian Jewish writer and poet anchored in Houston, Texas.

As always, s/o to Nate for our podcast music!

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Join us as we talk with Naomi Weintraub (they/them). Naomi is currently the Community Artist-in-Residence at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. Their art practice explores themes of play, queerness, anarchism, and environment.

We talk with them about living on Jewish time, and queer time, the power of Jewish ritual and the power of transformation, and Jewish anarchism! 

You can get in contact with Naomi on their instagram and check out their art on their website.

We talk about the Olam Haba planner created by Rebekah Erev and Nomy Lamb, which you can find here.

We also talk about Rebellious Anarchist Young Jews (RAYJ) and the podcast that Naomi hosts for The Jewish Museum of Maryland, Disloyal.

The books they plug at the end of the episode are:

“There’s Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart”

“With Freedom in Our Ears”  

“Practical Anarchism”

See you next week when we talk to Astera (she/they)! Astera is a multhiethnic sefardi writer, pianist, and photographer who is passionate about preserving diasporic languages and customs alive, anti-zionism, and creating.

As always, s/o to Nate for our podcast music!

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Join us as we talk to multi-talented artist @tahini.jpg ❤️‍🔥🕯️🍃
Nick tells us all about their tattooing practice, the meaningfulness of tattooing Judaica & queer art, living off the grid, and how Judaism shows up (even unintentionally) in all the art they make.




Join us next week when we talk to @na0mir0se , a multi-media artist and educator living in Baltimore 🥳

As always, s/o to Nate for our podcast music!

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We go full poetry nerd mode in this episode with Parker Sera! Join us as we talk about leaving room for nuance, the importance of activism in Judaism, and unpacking the relationship between art and capitalism. 

You can find Parker on instagram or check out their website.

The work we talked about is here and here. Definitely check out her linktree and website for all her work.

She will also be reading a play THIS SATURDAY in Philly, you can find details here.

She'll also be reading some poems in Philly on August 18th, but follow her for more details on that as they come!

Join us next week when we talk to Nick! Nick, or Tahini, (they/them) is an Agender Jewish artist, tattooer and farmer residing in Northern NY, originally from the Philadelphia area.

As always, thank you to Nate for our podcast music!

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Join us for another installment of The Artist Series with our incredible guest Zai, ⁠@kxngzaire⁠ ❤️‍🔥 In this episode we talk with Zai about the power of visibility, the liberation that lies in simply existing, avant garde fashion for trans folks, and so much more! 

Check out ⁠@beyondstudios.nyc⁠ and listen to ZAI on all music platforms, search The Purge feat Big Water if you can't find ZAI 

⁠Read the NYT article ZAI was featured in!⁠ 

Come back next week when we talk to ⁠@parker.sera⁠ - a queer, Ashkenazic actor, poet, theatre maker and teaching artist 🫶🏼

S/o to Nate for our podcast music!

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Join us as we talk with @avivalaviv about their art and Jewish lineage ✨
Aviva talks about art as a connective force and holding space for the dichotomy that exists in our world 🧚‍♀️

Spotify and you can watch the FANTASY music video on youtube.
The links they mention at the end of the episode are https://civilrights.justice.gov/⁠ and ⁠https://www.ada.gov/.

Aviva also highlights The Generations Project and their cousins book, The Cost of Free Land by Rebecca Clarren.

See you next week for our talk with @kxngzaire - a Black Trans Masc bespoke designer, punk rapper and model born and based in NYC 🥳🥳🥳

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If you missed it live you’re going to want to tune into this especially fitting Summer Solstice episode with @playscapeart 🌞🐚🎨
Join us as we talk with Mia about the Jewish tradition of centering LIFE, focusing on gratitude for the small things, centering play and joy in life and art, and the magic in everything 🥺✨

Join us next TUESDAY as we talk to
Aviva La Viv (they/she) - a Jewish, queer singer/songwriter and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn.

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