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After being on hiatus all summer, we're back baby!!! Today it's just us Yentas recapping Raye's summer break. If you didn't hear the news, THEY GOT MARRIED. AND IT WAS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. The gossip is piping hot, so grab a seat and sip this tea. We Yenta about: - Orgies at the Bachelorexxx party - Being the biggest Jewish queer event of LA - Non-binary wedding attire - Raye&#39...

Raye and Antonia give their hottest takes on your favorite topic: Jewish Music! This was recorded *before* Raye's wedding - so you'll get the inside scoop of how the world's most epic tisch was planned. We yenta about: - Raye's WEDDING TISCH vision and playlist - Hassidim doing Hassidic stuff with Hassidim - What makes a good Jewish song? - Song circle vs. niggun circles vs. tisch...

We get the real yenta on Kylie's aborshion story, timothee chalamet giving NYU kids chlamidya, Raye's planning a wedding chaos. Follow Kylie! https://www.instagram.com/kylievincentthefirst/ Guest host: Gloria Alexander https://www.instagram.com/gloriaisfunny Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

This is an unreleased episode that we are going to post on the main but sharing with our Patrons first! We update you on with the nonbinary couple we matched last episode and we pitch some of our favorite couples yet!

We’re so excited to be back on the couch for some real Yenta with just the Yentas! We have a lot of catching up to do this episode: We yenta about: Some serious tea about an old seminary friend Finding an impossible rabbi and other wedding prep A non-sensationalized Dave Portnoy, Barstool Sports and Jewish Drama discussion Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta Raye Schiller: http...

Melissa Weisz and Leah Forster are back on the couch in Raye's sublet in Brooklyn (that's why it's such bad video quality - sorry)! We have *amazing* yenta about: - Raye's engagement party (that Melissa and Leah were both at!) - Jojo Siwa Kath Drama (yay lesbian tiktok!) - Our Red flags - Modi's post-comedy show pesach program drama!! - Are we just looking for external validati...

You know Elana Arian's music from every Jewish summer camp and Reform synagogue, but did you also know she's the most charming hilarious Jewish power lesbian????? We're obsessed with Elana, and go check out her new album that comes out May 9, 2025! We Yenta about: - Jewish music hot takes - Gay NYC Jewish gossip - How Elana fell in love with a cantor (!!!) - Debbie Friedman lore - Even more Debbie...

When we told folks that Bri Giger (Netflix Is A Joke, UCB, professional DJ) was coming on the pod, everyone had the exact same reaction: I LOVE HER!! We’re so honored that Bri agreed to come on the pod and ruin her reputation. Total mensch.  We Yenta about:  Nonmonagamy in LA: Your GF making out with your ex-GF Bri’s SNL audition! What a legend! Bri is the hottest DJ in LA. Like seriously. She’s a...

Introducing Yenta Matchmaking exclusively  for Patrons only! Every other week on the  Yenta Patreon  we'll read profiles of eligible single Jews (or Jews *adjacent*), including YOU! In each Yenta Matchmaking episode (only available on Patreon), we'll make a few matches and hear reports back from former Yenta daters!  WE WANT TO FIND YOUR BESHERT. Submit to Yenta Matchmaking here . Follow R...

We are talking to the actual founder of the Free Britney movement, Babs Gray!!! She also happens to be the only non-Jew at the JCC, and a genius comedian and podcaster and "woman in body." (Her words.) We Yenta about: - Incredibly niche Jewish internet feuds - Where is Britney now??? - How did we free Britney?? - Empathizing with mysogynist comedy - Very controversial takes about Jewish...

IT'S THE BIG DAY!!!!!!! RAYE IS ENGAYGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This episode is literally nothing but weddings: Jewish qeddings, gay weddings, nonbinary weddings, Jewish/gay/nonbinary weddings!!! BTW, Antonia's video feed cuts out towards the end, but that means you have more time to look at Raye's gorgeous face. :) We Yenta about: - weddings - weddings - nothing but wed...

It's everyone's favorite queer yeshiva! Leah Forster and Melissa Weisz (The World Famous Orthodykes) are back, and this week we're asking... is there comedy in the Torah??? We have source sheets, chevrutas, and pedantic arguments about the meaning of words: it's a real yeshiva!! We Yenta about: - Are we completely disrespecting our ancestors? - We're definitely disrespecting ou...

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 mastectom...

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...

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...

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...

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 - Shoul...

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 c...

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 re...

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 -...

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 - Wh...

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...

It's just us today!!! You know it's a Yentas Only episode when Raye is fully horizontal on the couch. This is another cozy gossip sesh with your two favorite queer jews (and their very strong opinions). We Yenta about: - We're the best queer jewish podcast - Kabbalah. Real? Fake? Scam? - Bisexuals are more oppressed than literally anyone - Actual bisexuals with boyfriends are the most oppressed -...

This week we are talking to the most powerful lesbian in LA, Anna Goodman! Anna runs Damn Good Dykes Nights, where she throws the biggest sapphic parties in the city. She used to work for JQI (Jewish Queer International) and also she went on one date with Raye. ICONIC YENTA. BTW, there's an additional Patreon episode with Anna all about Israel and Palestine, and a very difficult situation that cam...

Big deal playwright Agnes Borinsky (Playwrights Horizons, Bushwick Starr) is here to give her hottest takes on bimbo-hood, trans Jewishness, and Milton Steinberg (iconic Yenta). We Yenta about: - Writing historical trans fiction - Talking shit about synagogues - The theatre of Judaism - Every Jew feels like an outsider - Biiiiig juicy Israel chat - The most incredible academic bullshit that has ev...