Ask a Jew

New segment: What kind of Jew is this?   Podcast about K-Pop and the war in Gaza (Hebrew) Robbie Williams does Pride TLV   Don’t forget to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and follow us on Substack and instagram @askajewpod Joing the AAJ conversation on Susbtack! askajew.substack.com Email us your questions askajewpod@gmail.com   ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐  Want to help us grow? Rate and revi...

We are back with our friend and reluctant mentor, Meghan Daum! Meghan is an author, host of The Unspeakable  podcast, co-host of A Special Place in Hell with Sarah Haider, and founder of the Unspeakeasy, a special online community for special online women (we are both members!). As usual, we start light and breezy by gushing over hot dictators and 90's TV dads, and end up musing about regret, marr...

The girls are very excited to welcome a real doctor to today’s episode, and not just any doctor - Dr. Drew Pinsky! In case you you live under a rock (or in Israel): Dr. Drew is a board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist known for his shows Loveline, Celebrity Rehab, Teen Mom , and currently Dr. Drew After Dark , the Dr. Drew Podcast , and The Adam and Drew Show (co-hosted by Ada...

We are thrilled to chat with Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor for Newsweek and author of "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy." In this Megillah (am I doing this right?): The Islamic jihad comes for the Backstreet Boys What kind of Jew is Batya? Jewish matchmaking I'm not Jewish, I'm Israeli: An intervention Our various Jewish Identities Batya's bananas background Jews from...

Just in time for Mother's Day, we are joined in the studio by the man who birthed us, Matt Welch! From his humble beginnings as a Newsie in Prague, to head of a podcast empire and reluctant cult leader, Matt makes idol worship almost acceptable to a religious Jew. Most importantly, Chaya Leah and Yael's love story began when they were both listening to  The Fifth Column, the podcast Matt hosts wit...

Join us for our first real meetup in NYC, May 8th! Details in the episode. For more info: Sign up for our Substack newsletter askajew.substack.com , and email us at askajewpod@gmail.com *The rebranding of Antisemitism https://nypost.com/2023/04/28/nyc-council-progressives-vote-no-from-end-jew-hatred-day/ *Guess who leads the hate crimes chart?? That's right baby. *Whine smarter, not harder *We dis...

Chaya Leah reviews a strip show on Vegas (relax, it was men!) A blasphemous Seder  A passionate defense of peeling tomatoes  Karens of the Bible  Holocaust bell dings at: 15:50 A terrible disease and the only known cure is subscribing to our podcast and rating it five stars  Death is really bad you guys  Meet us for drinks in New York on May 8! Listeners questions about Passover loopholes and the...

Eli Lake is back to guide us through the desert and into freedom, stopping along the way to talk about Kanye, Iraq, Ukraine, Israel, Trump, Alvin Bragg and Nickelback. Not quite the 10 plagues, but something. Follow Eli at @Elilake on Twitter, and us on Substack, at AskaJew.substack.com Joing the AAJ conversation on Susbtack! askajew.substack.com Email us your questions askajewpod@gmail.com   ⭐...

Mark Epperson, ordained Presbyterian minister turned musical theatre performer, comes to educate us about Jesus Christ. You know who else loves you? We do! That's why we're having a Zoom hangout Sunday, April 2nd. Subscribe to askajew.substack.com for details. Joing the AAJ conversation on Susbtack! askajew.substack.com Email us your questions askajewpod@gmail.com   ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐  Want to help us...

Yael is back from Mexico, where she is profiled at the airport and almost gets a tattoo from an Argentine of German descent. Chaya Leah first tells a horror story of an interfaith breakfast, and then proceeds to offend everyone who loves the New Testament. Something for everyone on this episode of Ask a Jew!  Email us your questions at askajewpod@gmail.com , follow us on Substack askajew.substack....

Get out your jazz hands! In this episode of "Ask A Jew," men and women are dancing together! We welcome our two Broadway correspondents, playwright Jeremy Kareken ("Lifespan of a Fact"), and actor, director, singer and Jewish activist Ari Axelrod. Not a big theatre fan? Don't worry, we get to the holocaust real fast! We also discuss recent acts of antisemitism on and off Broadway (off Broadway ant...

Tom Brady, Ozempic, Madonna, and other heroes from the bible are discussed in this week's episode. We also give free medical advice, answer your questions about the NBA, and tell a lot of stories that start with, "I probably shouldn't say this on the podcast, but..." Remember to email us your questions at askajewpod@gmail.com And to like, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts ! Joing the AAJ conver...

This week we discuss Netflix's new romcom "You People," which frankly we find offensive to people who like funny movies and attractive male leads. We also learn about a Kosher Superbowl halftime show, what Orthodox kids learned from Dr. Drew, and... our very ambitious underage stalker. Dumb questions about Judaism? Email askajewpod@gmail.com Joing the AAJ conversation on Susbtack! askajew.substack...

This week we interview David Ben-Moshe, a black guy from Baltimore who discovered Judaism while serving time in federal prison for drug and gun charges, and now lives in Israel as an orthodox Jew. Yup. Don't worry, we ask ALL the important questions in this episode, like "What kind of drugs did you sell,"  "Will we lose weight if *we* go to prison?" and "How did you find Jews to hang out with?" (a...

Ever look at the Knesset and tell yourself, "Wow, we're lucky the US congress is so normal"? This week, we call on Lahav Harkov of the Jerusalem Post to help us untangle the swamp of israeli politics (mixed metaphors by design). Follow Lahav on Twitter: @LahavHarkov on Substack at lahav.substack.com/ And don't forget to sign up to our Substack askajew.substack.com ,  Send all your compliments, gri...

The girls welcome hilarious stand-up comedian Dan Naturman, who you may know from America’s Got Talent and Last Comic Standing . You can catch Dan on instagram @DanNaturman , and don’t forget to follow Ask A Jew @askajewpod and on Substack askajew.substack.com Questions? Complaints? Askajewpod@gmail.com   Joing the AAJ conversation on Susbtack! askajew.substack.com Email us your questions askajewp...

Much like the 90s sitcoms that made us the women we are today, this week’s episode starts out with talks about nudity and boyfriends and ends with a heartwarming message about something or other. Also: *The Yad Vashem food court review. * Israeli dogs aren't cute. * Chaya Leah is baffled by thongs. And bikinis.   * Yael does a mitzvah.   * Sometimes you just shouldn’t believe in yourself. * Asian...

Two episodes a week? It must be some kind of non-denominational holiday season miracle! For this episode, we got a Rabbi who’s an expert on Christmas music. No, really. David Komorovsky is a rabbi in Canton, Ohio. Growing up in the Midwest with a Jewish community the size of a high school football team, Rabbi David amassed an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Goy, including our peoples guilty p...

Happy Chanukah! If you don't know, Chanukah is an 8-day holiday in which Jews around the world celebrate the miracle of chocolate-covered gold coins. During this episode, Yael Jew-splains the holiday to a mortified Chaya Leah, who issues one or two corrections. We talk about playing sports in the nude (it's a Greek thing, you wouldn't understand), Christmas envy, and holidays blues. Chaya Leah won...

Best friend of the Jews and righteous among the podcasters, Michael Moynihan of The Fifth Column is our special guest this week. We feel especially blessed to interview our goyfriend (in person!) since The Fifth Column sort of gave birth to Ask A Jew, though no one really takes responsibility (think Three Men and a Baby ). We spend 90 precious minutes holding hands around the small table in the st...

Welcome to our two-part anniversary show! With Yael preparing to leave the homeland and Chaya Leah coming off the high of her son's Bar Mitzvah, we discuss cute holocaust survivors, how fun it is to ignore the latest anti-semitism viral thing, and make a passionate case for why Taylor Swift is the Israel of the music industry. On the second part, you will hear an excelled interview with David Bern...

What do Orthodox Jews and a Dominatrix have in common? Leather, of course! In this special episode, we interview an Israeli/German BDSM Queen Dasa Hink, and yes - we go here, there and everywhere. Frankly, she had us at historical role play scenarios. We talk with Dasa about being Jewish in Europe, the banality of being a sex worker, Hugo Boss Nazi uniforms, German guilt, and something kind of ado...

Are you a left wing anti-semite? A right wing anti-semite? This episode has something for everyone! We are back after our little Jewish holiday hibernation: Yael tells us about her time in Africa (which was just like the Lion King) and Chaya Leah is recovering from making 200 meatballs and 1,4000 challahs. We talk about Kanye, depression, graveyards full of foreskins, and how we're all fu**ed if w...

The Yom Kippur special extravaganza! Just as the girls are about to shut their pie holes for 25 hours (to abstain from eating, not talking) they meet to beg your forgiveness.  Joing the AAJ conversation on Susbtack! askajew.substack.com Email us your questions askajewpod@gmail.com   ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐  Want to help us grow? Rate and review us 5 stars on Apple podcasts and Spotify  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This...

Let's party like it's 5783!! What's worse: Rosh Hashanah services or New Year's eve in Times Square?  Also, is it Hasidic Jew migration season? Turns out they have some days off where they're allowed to do things, which explains why they are in bloom in city's parks and zoos. It's a beautiful sight.   Also:  Cooking for the holidays: a great Rebettzen vs. a Hot Mess.    Chaya Leah is giving you th...