Making Mensches: Not Your Bubbe's Torah School

Welcome to part 2 of our episodes with Dr Bill! Some of you may know Dr Bill from the ⁠blog series he penned for our website⁠ , describing his journey as an anti-zionist Jew in the 70s and 80s. We wanted to bring him on the podcast so you could hear from him in this way. He's very keen on questions, so please dm or email us if you have any for him. It would make him very happy to answer them :...

We're bacccckkkk! Did you miss us ? We've channeled our energy over the last 10 months to organizing around the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and aim to continue focusing our attention on Gaza while bringing back the podcast as a way to amplify calls for an end to genocide and occupation. Our first episode back is with Dr Bill! Some of you may know Dr Bill from the blog series he penned for ou...

We have definitely not been conducting ~business as usual~ the last two months as we focus our time and energy on amplifying Palestinian voices and doing what we can from here to fight for a liberated Palestine. We are back in the midst of this hiatus to bring you a joint episode with The Jewish Diasporist podcast ! We talk about how The Jewish Diasporist podcast started and what it means to ident...

It feels weird to be posting about a new podcast episode while genocide rages on, but we offer this episode on Cheshvan as a reflection on what is happening in the world and a space for Jewish ritual that feels so necessary in order to bolster us as we continue fighting against ethnic cleansing. If this resonates with you and you want this right now, feel free to listen. If it doesn’t, leave it he...

This week join us as we talk about Ometz Lev - courage! We talk about the courage that it takes to be vocal about anti-zionism in Jewish spaces, the importance of language, and the necessity to break cycles of generational and historical trauma 👀 We’ll be back next week for our final session on Jewish values that support anti-zionism! Stay tuned for our INCREDIBLE August series ❤️ S/o to @naebird...

Join us as we talk all things Sukkot and art and agriculture and Judaism with Sol Weiss (they/them)! During this episode, we talk about the idea of sukkah’s as vision forts, what it means to be in healing relationship with the land, collective composting, and so so much more.  Some links to things that we discuss in this session are: 🌱 The COVID Grief Network (now, Reimagine) 🌱 Being with Grief...

g'mar chatima tova to all you lovely listeners! 🕊️ We hope that this episode can be a helpful guide to your Yom Kippur observance, as we break down what Yom Kippur is and talk about… ❤️‍🔥 the idea of Yom Kippur being a dress rehearsal for our death ❤️‍🔥 our feelings on fasting ❤️‍🔥 how the Unetanneh Tokef represents the power of oral tradition ❤️‍🔥 Kol Nidre honoring a history of forced co...

This episode we talk all about the month of Tishrei with Rebekah Erev (they/them) 🪐 Rebekah is the co-creator of the Dreaming The World To Come planner and podcast and of the Queer Mikveh Project ! They bring us all of the wisdom and nourishment we could ask for leading into Tishrei. For more of their work, visit https://rebekaherevstudio.com/ We talk about… 🕯️ embracing all the tiny moments of j...

Join us for this expansive conversation with Veronica Stewart-Frommer , lead singer of the band Melt , and anti-nuclear weapons activist ❤️‍🔥 We talk all about what it means to feel "Jewish enough" and how we can end up using our Jewish identities, or proximity to Judaism, as a shield of sorts when talking about Palestinian liberation and how we can move away from that. We talk all abou...

Join us as we talk to Micah Bazant (they/them) a visual artist and cultural strategist who works with social justice movements to reimagine the world. We talk to Micah about some of their zines, TimTum and Miklat Miklat , the connections between abolition and Judaism, the importance of being explicitly anti-zionist, healing from generational trauma, and what dreams we all have of the world to come...

On this episode, we talk with Anna Rajagopal about being Houston’s biggest fan and the significance of our geographic homes, about loving and losing - especially in relation to Queer community, and the power of art and joy as resistance.  We discuss Anna’s pieces about their friend and community member Audrey, those can be found HERE and HERE . We also talk about their poem Alona Naomi, which can...

Join us for a beautiful conversation with Astera (she/they) about diaspora, preservation, and the significance of language - especially Ladino ❤️‍🔥 Astera brings light to how powerful preserving language - like Ladino - and culture are, as ways to engage with art and continue creating art, and as ways to push back against zionism and other settler colonialism.  You can listen to Astera’s podcast...

Join us as we talk with Naomi Weintraub (they/them). Naomi is currently the Community Artist-in-Residence at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. Their art practice explores themes of play, queerness, anarchism, and environment. We talk with them about living on Jewish time, and queer time, the power of Jewish ritual and the power of transformation, and Jewish anarchism!  You can get in contact with Nao...

Join us as we talk to multi-talented artist  @tahini.jpg  ❤️‍🔥🕯️🍃 Nick tells us all about their tattooing practice, the meaningfulness of tattooing Judaica & queer art, living off the grid, and how Judaism shows up (even unintentionally) in all the art they make. Join us next week when we talk to  @na0mir0se  , a multi-media artist and educator living in Baltimore 🥳 As always, s/o to Nate f...

We go full poetry nerd mode in this episode with Parker Sera! Join us as we talk about leaving room for nuance, the importance of activism in Judaism, and unpacking the relationship between art and capitalism.  You can find Parker on instagram or check out their website . The work we talked about is here and here . Definitely check out her linktree and website for all her work. She will also be re...

Join us for another installment of The Artist Series with our incredible guest Zai,  ⁠@kxngzaire⁠  ❤️‍🔥 In this episode we talk with Zai about the power of visibility, the liberation that lies in simply existing, avant garde fashion for trans folks, and so much more!  Check out  ⁠@beyondstudios.nyc⁠  and listen to ZAI on all music platforms, search The Purge feat Big Water if you can't find Z...

Join us as we talk with  @avivalaviv  about their art and Jewish lineage ✨ Aviva talks about art as a connective force and holding space for the dichotomy that exists in our world 🧚‍♀️ Spotify and you can watch the FANTASY music video on  youtube. The links they mention at the end of the episode are https://civilrights.justice.gov/⁠  and ⁠https://www.ada.gov/ . Aviva also highlights The Generati...

If you missed it live you’re going to want to tune into this especially fitting Summer Solstice episode with  @playscapeart  🌞🐚🎨 Join us as we talk with Mia about the Jewish tradition of centering LIFE, focusing on gratitude for the small things, centering play and joy in life and art, and the magic in everything 🥺✨ Join us next TUESDAY as we talk to Aviva La Viv (they/she) - a Jewish, queer...

Join us for our FIRST episode of this incredible series with Daniel Kushner! We talk about Daniel’s time performing as Motel in Fiddler, how his anti-zionism shows up in his art, and the importance of dialogue. To check out more of Daniel's work, follow him on  ⁠IG⁠  and read his article  ⁠here⁠ ! @mmontalvo_xo  on IG! S/o to Nate for our podcast music 🥳

In celebration of Rosh Chodesh Sivan we are finally uploading our episode on the Divine Feminine and the Pull of the Moon, which was recorded at Union Theological Seminary on October 20th, 2021. We were so honored to present at Chapel and still feel so strongly about this episode. Since this episode was recorded, we have begun hosting consistent Rosh Chodesh circles every month and love to talk al...

May Day felt like the most appropriate day to release our episode on Tzedek, or Justice, as a podcast episode! [Originally recorded on February 10th, 2022] Join us for an expansive session on justice - where we talk about everything from Maimonides' ladder of giving, to water and rest being metaphors for justice, and reparations being tzedekah 💚💚 There are too many resources to count but her...

This week we bring you the last episode from last year's series with @fckingthefineprint ! Join us as we discuss cultural perceptions of circumcision, consent, what Judaism says about circumcision, and much much more 💕 NOTE:  Around the 11 minute mark the audio cuts out so it sounds like Madison is saying that the percentage of circumcised people worldwide is 7.7% but it’s actually 37.7%. Sho...

Another episode from last years series with @fckingthefineprint, this one on abortion and Judaism! Obviously SO much has shifted in the abortion access landscape since this time last year, much of it for the worse in terms of legal restrictions. Please keep in mind a lot of those shifts had not yet happened when we recorded, but make sure to check out any of the many organizations and individuals...

We did this awesome series with F*cking the Fine Print almost a year ago and this was the second episode in this four-part series, now available as a podcast! Re-listen if you were listening last year or listen for the first time for some gems. In this session, we talk about all things menstruation, reclaiming the mikveh, and much much more 💕 If you want to check out our resources and activities...

We did this awesome series with F*cking the Fine Print almost a year ago and decided it was about time we brought it to the podcast format! (Episode done on IG, April 12th, 2022) In this session, we talk about pleasure, Judaism, religion and sex, abstinence, non-goal oriented sex, and much much more 💕 #Sex   #Pleasure   #Judaism   #SexPleasure   #RadicalJudaism   #JewishLearning   #SexEducation  ...