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his month we’re talking about… politics. How does it show up in our Jewish communities? And how do we want it to show up in our communities? How and when do we talk about politics at shul? Endorsements: Zahava endorses (1) the Gabfest Reads episode about Tablets Shattered by Joshua Leifer; (2) Rav Yehuda Amital’s […]

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This month we’re talking about waste and Jewish practice, especially as we begin preparing for Passover. What if anything can we do on a global, local, and personal level about waste? Endorsements: Zahava endorses the folk song “Irish Eyes” by Rose Betts and encourages you to search for responses to Rose’s “Open Verse” challenge Mimi […]

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This month we’re talking about how we prioritize kid services and programming versus our own communal needs. What is our ideal, and what we have we seen that didn’t work for us. Endorsements Mimi endorses Kapelya, an album of women singing Hasidic melodies soon to be released by the artist RAZA, watching the Klimovitcher Nigun […]

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This month we’re talking about being Jewish at work.  How do we explain and present ourselves as Jews at a Jewish workplace, or a non-Jewish workplace? 1 in 4 hiring managers say they’re less likely to hire Jewish applicants by Kathryn Moody in HR Dive Zahava’s short twitter thread about a work conversation after the […]

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Hello! and welcome to Talking in Shul, a roundtable podcast. I’m your host, Tamar Fox, and I’ve got Zahava Stadler joining us from Toronto. Hi Zahava! And Mimi Lewis is joining us from Somerville, MA. Hi Mimi!  You may have noticed that we took a bit of a break since our last episode. We are […]

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Beauty Queen of Jerusalem Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a new show on Netflix (it previously came out as 20 30 min episodes in Israel. Netflix has made it into 10 hour long episodes). It follows the ​​Hermosas, a wealthy Sephardic family who own a shop in Machane Yehuda in Jerudalem. Gabriel runs the shop, […]

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This month we’re talking about a YouTube special called Recipe for Change: Standing up to Antisemism. And for our second segment we’re talking about how the expected end of Roe v Wade impacts the Jewish community, and how the Jewish community can and should be responding. For that segment we’ll be talking with my good […]

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This month we’re talking about the TN school ban of Maus, and other attempts to limit education around difficult or uncomfortable subjects like the Holocaust and slavery.  And for our second segment we’re, oof, we are getting ready for pesach and thinking about some Seder topics we are (and aren’t) excited to discuss at our […]

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This month we’re talking Marcie Greenfield Simons about what it’s like to be an interfaith chaplain in these intense covid times.   And for our second segment we’re talking about a series of video documentaries from the Times of Israel about three somewhat neglected populations within Jerusalem: secular Jews, Christians, and Arabs who might want to […]

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This month we’re talking about the new book, Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century, edited by Warren Hoffman, and Miriam Steinberg Egeth.  And for our second segment we’re talking about The Club, a new show on netflix that centers on a Jewish woman in […]

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