Extended Kiddush

7.7.26 So—-- we are back… for the first time since June 4. (Sorry). Marissa recaps her first time seeing Les Miserables and her time in Montreal and leading services at Pembroke, Jenna talks about her new jewelry class and her trips to Ocean City and Kentucky, and Dan reviews his June full of life cycle events and his Red Sox/World Cup two-fer from last week. We also talk about the Annual Meeting,...

4 June 2026 It’s no one’s fault we haven’t recorded in a few weeks…. actually, yes, it’s Talia’s, because she was away for a few days. But my oh my, we have a lot to talk about. Florida, Memorial Day, Jewish Heritage Night, the meteor, the return of the snapping turtle…and more. We’ve got Rachel Fish, the David Passer lecture, Talia’s greeting card collection, and somehow Marissa has not seen “The...

12 May 2026 With the big B Mitzvah weekend now over, we take a look back at the past few days and, of course, decide “Who Won The B Mitzvah”. We also celebrate a new fridge in the office, a new giant hole in the rear courtyard, and some other TST-adjacent updates. Talia reports out from the JFS Gala, Stephen preps for Sudbury’s 250th birthday, and Marissa learns what a “shotgun start” is in golf....

7 May 2026 This was a good one! We start off with Marissa recapping her trip to New Orleans, Talia not getting a second boat, and Dan reporting back from his road trip. We review a million TST events, including the solar panels ribbon-cutting, Parents For Peace, Pizza Friday, the Social Supper, the end of Hineni, pavilion prep, and THE SURVEY. We also discover a secret extra piece of the census in...

21 April 2026 It’s vacation week, so we’ve got a little more time to get together and talk about all the things… and we have a special guest, to boot! Marjorie Brockman joins the party as we review Talia’s three-show weekend in NY, Marissa’s experience at Bravo Night, and a perfect baseball evening for Dan. We talk about Monthly Mahj and the new set that just arrived, a bevy of recent programs, co...

9 April 2026 Season 2 of Extended Kiddush is finally here! We’re back this week after a little Passover hiatus recapping our seders and lives over the past 20 days, the TST Spring Celebration, the Reyim/Mussar dinner, and more. The new Mah Jongg cards are out, Dan survived three nights of Town Meeting, the TWICE concert, and a cold night on the Monster, and Marissa had a great time at the PEP-RJ c...

19 March 2026 It’s our last episode of Season One! Happy birthday to us! This week, we look back at our Shabbat honoring Ed Burman as a “Hero Among Us”, tease some newsletter changes, and reflect warmly on finally meeting Judy Gadiel from Evolve Giving Group. We also look ahead to the Reyim/Mussar dinner on Friday and the TST Spring Celebration, do some learning about the number 36 in Judaism, and...

10 March 2026 Well- since we’ve last spoken, we’ve had two snow days, two Purim spiels, 270 people for pizza dinner, and a whole lot more. Join us as we recap the last 20 days of our lives, including TST events, Talia’s cruise, Marissa’s needlepoint activities, Dan’s basketball endeavors, and how Adam Bernstein clearly won Purim. We also learn about dolphins (or narwhals) in the desert, Stephen’s...

18 February 2026 It’s vacation week at TST but we are still here and this week Jenna, Renata, Marissa, and Dan are in for a special Wednesday episode. Dan challenges his colleagues with a quiz entitled “Biblical Name Or Biblical Place?”, we take a look at a very busy slate of events in March, and get ready for some big hockey games at the Olympics. We also have a fascinating studio guest this week...

13 Feb. 2026 This week, we get together for our most efficient podcast yet- less than 31 minutes long! We recap the Super Bowl and Olympics, reflect on another successful Yeladim and B’yachad service, celebrate the removal of our ice dams, and learn about a Purim-related murder in the Talmud. (Yes, really.) Dan also goes to the wrong high school for a basketball game, Marissa considers curbing her...

5 February 2026 With the Super Bowl just three days away, we sat down this morning to take a look back at the past week, including TST events, Talia’s trip to see “Chess” in New York, Marissa’s day in Boston, and the joy Dan felt when he learned that Massachusetts has its own special groundhog. We also celebrate the first rehearsal of “KPop Haman Hunters”, discuss the differing opinions on who spo...

S1:E31- Never Take The Red Line 29 Jan. 2026 Well, we survived Snowmageddon this week and are back for a special Thursday podcast recapping our snow days, the Patriots advancing to the Super Bowl, and Dan and Talia's experience at the Bruins game on Tuesday. We celebrate the return of the Morocco trip, the launch of Mussar 2 and our Ethical Wills classes, the JFS clothing drive, and the surgin...

22 January 2026 We’ve got a snowstorm on the way, but nothing gets in the way of this podcasting crew as we hit the 30-episode mark. This week, Dan and Talia are joined by Jenna and Renata, and we dive into a review of all things TST-related and TST-adjacent. We’ve got congregants in Morocco, guests in the building from CJP, Rabbi Lisa stepping in to all of the clergy activities, and a whole bunch...

15 January 2026 We’re back this week with special guest Stephen Greenstein and a look back at a phenomenally successful run of events, including Tu B’Shevat/Havdalah, a skating afternoon in Framingham, and Wednesday’s author event. We get down in the weeds about snakes vs. serpents and the word tanin in the Torah, Dan and Marissa have a miraculous story from Sunday’s Bruins game, Stephen tells us...

S1:E28- 5-Star Rating 6 January 2026 Happy New Year! We kick off 2026 with a back-to-work podcast that features quite a grab-bag of topics. We’ve got a review of vacation, a requiem for MTV, and some surprising information about what Moses’ name actually means. We also get excited for Marc Baker’s visit tomorrow, our book event next Wednesday, a first-of-its-kind Yeladim Tu B’Shevat/Havdalah combo...

23 December 2025 This week, we finish up the year with a last-minute podcast before Marissa jets off to Florida. We review assorted holiday gift swaps, Marissa’s pilgrimage to Marblehead, and Dan’s proud Jewish moment at a Bruins game. We also review the Chanukah tarantella that was performed at services on Friday night, the hilarity of the staff Chanukah celebration, and admire the amazing photos...

S1:E26- I Was Only Right This Week 15 Dec 2025 Chanukah is here, and so are we for our penultimate podcast of 2025. We review a long list of recent events, Talia’s weekend trip to Aruba, and our successful world (or TST) record for indoor pizza that we set on December 5. We also get quizzed on a range of obscure Jewish traditions related to Chanukah candle-lighting, discuss the new teas at the cof...

S1:E25- We Bought A Ladder 5 December 2025 We’ve got a full house today as Jenna and Renata join us for a just-before-Shabbat episode full of action. We recap Thanksgiving and review our musical highlights from the day, discover our cultural blindspots (i.e. who hasn’t seen Harry Potter, The Wizard of Oz, The Godfather, Toy Story, and The Sound of Music), and have polite disagreements about lip sy...

S1:E24- A Small, Sour Thing 25 Nov 2025 We had a great time today in our final episode before Thanksgiving. Talia and Marissa reflect on “Wicked: For Good”, Dan gets back in touch with Israeli music, and we recap a festive Friday and weekend here at TST. We also debut “Times We Were Wrong This Week” as a segment, do some deep learning about cranberries and the blessings we might say over them (spo...

S1:E23 20 November 2025 All Sliced Up Life comes at us fast- we blinked and 23 days went by without a podcast. We are back this week with a recap of a whole bunch of TST events, learn about Jacob and Esau, talk to John Legg about 3D printing, and go deep on Thanksgiving. Talia preps for Wicked For Good , Dan gets into some cranberry minutiae, and Marissa expands her footprint at home. We also cele...

28 October 2025 S1:E22- 100 is the new 50   Fresh off the plane from Atlanta, Marissa is back from the Civil Rights Trip and is ready to update us on that amazing experience and her first time at Buc-ee’s. We catch up on pre-Thanksgiving activities, Dan’s acorn squash, and “Nobody Wants This”, Talia gives us the latest on the bricks for the community pathway, and we hear firsthand about Mussar fro...

15 October 2025 As XK celebrates its 21st birthday (of sorts), we also celebrate the return of the live hostages, the end of the holidays of Tishrei here at TST, and, of course, the release of the new album from Taylor Swift. We actually crown a Yom Kippur champion (no spoilers here), review the excitement of October 5 with the food drive, Sukkah building and softball bbq, and get ready for even m...

S1:E20- Who Won Rosh Hashanah? 9.25.25 While basking in the glory of a Rosh Hashanah well-celebrated, Dan, Marissa, and Talia are back with what can only be described as the Best. Pod. Ever. We review recent events like the Sept. 20 social night at TST, Dan’s day at Gillette with Talia’s husband, the Red Sox on the cusp of making the playoffs, and (finally) Jenna Brockman coming to temple. We also...

S1:E19- Shofar, So Good 9.9.25 Some weeks we are too busy to podcast, and other weeks we are too busy to podcast but do it anyway- you can guess what kind of week this was! Today we welcome Marissa back to the pod and hear about her time away, and then launch into a review of a very busy week here at TST. The opening of the ELC, a pizza dinner for 200 people, Natick Days, the first Sunday of Hinen...

S1:E18- The 614th Commandment 27.8.25 After a three-week break, we are back, sadly without Marissa, but with an appearance by TST’s newest staff member Renata Feinstein! We cover a lot of ground about what we’ve all been up to, review the ongoing work in and around the building, learn about some lesser-known material from Shoftim , and talk about a very busy few weeks just right around the corner....