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What is being "Jewish"? What are Jews? What do Jews believe? What do Jews do? What's happening in those mysterious synagogues with all that weird language (it's Hebrew)? Jew curious? The thing about being Jewish is, you can't tell us apart by looking (well, not always), we often look the same, dress the same, work and play and eat right alongside our non-Jewish counterparts, and yet, as a teeny tiny minority--only 0.2% of the global population, and 2-3% of the U.S. population--plenty of people have probably never met a Jewish person, or if they did, they didn't even know it. For as much as w...

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What an aging Jewish hippie taught her kids about sex 10.08.2023 30:40

Send us Fan Mail Judaism takes a very different view of sex than much of mainstream culture in the U.S. Mischaracterization or misunderstanding of some of these differences may have evolved into some of the many anti-Semitic stereotypes (including conflicting ones …goes to show the solid reasoning behind stereotypes), but the general discourse among modern American Jews at least is, overall, prett...

To be Young, Black, Gay and Jewish 28.07.2023 45:05

Send us Fan Mail How does a gay man raised in a Southern Black church end up the Executive Director of Washington DC’s LGBTQA synagogue, Bet Mishpachah ? Growing up attending the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Josh Maxey always had a relationship with God and religion, but after hearing his pastor talking about how gay people are destined for hell, he started pulling away from Christiani...

New Jew, new you! But same eternal soul 13.07.2023 35:53

Send us Fan Mail Rabbi Eliana Fischel might not claim the title "The Cool Rabbi" (or think it very likely any rabbi would), but the Washington Hebrew Congregation Associate Rabbi does a lot of the fun stuff. She runs the young professionals group, works with LGBTQ and Jews of Color cohorts, and is involved in something like 40 conversions a year. Who knew there were so many!? Well, no on...

The Catholic to Jewish pipeline 29.06.2023 44:35

Send us Fan Mail Who knew there was such a thing? Well, Laurel Lehman discovered it along her conversion journey when, in college, her pastor told her there was a "well-trodden path" through the Episcopal Church to Judaism. And that's where she ended up. Apparently even though Bible study was never her thing, the intense pedantry we embrace and employ in our Torah study discussions...

A Southern girl walks into a shul... 15.06.2023 38:58

Send us Fan Mail Nancy grew up in Savannah, Georgia, and like most people, was active in the church. But after having kids, she moved into the Jewish neighborhood of Savannah, wanting what she saw there for her family. That started her down a path of questioning and curiosity that ultimately led her to convert. We talk about her journey, what she studied to become a certified Jew, and how her befo...

What are Jews? 01.06.2023 56:21

Send us Fan Mail Just kidding we couldn’t possibly answer a question that big in one show. Or one lifetime. But, in this first episode of Jew- ish , Rabbi Susan Shankman , Senior Rabbi of Washington Hebrew Congregation, will take our hand, and walk us through some of the basics, just in time for the end of Jewish American Heritage Month! We’ll cover things like whatever the heck “identity and cu...

A "Jew-ish" Trailer 30.05.2023 0:45

Send us Fan Mail The Jews.....we live among you, we often look, dress, eat, or party like you do, we may go to the same schools and restaurants, have the same interests, mutual friends. And yet, life is somehow different when lived through a Jewish lens. This show offers everyone, Jews and non-Jews alike, a place to compare experiences, ask questions, explore and explain things to and about ourse...