The Jews Are Tired
A weekly digest of the big stories around the Jewish world, through a Jewish Journalist lens.
Episodes
January 15, 2025 • 39 mins
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Uprise: http://upriseforgood.com/
The Forward's polling: https://forward.com/news/664087/harris-trump-poll-jewish-voters-israel-gaza/
Jews wrestling with DEI: https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-critics-of-dei-debate-the-future-of-us-campus-diversity-programs/
https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/former-adl-ajc-leaders-ab...
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The Forward's polling: https://forward.com/news/664087/harris-trump-poll-jewish-voters-israel-gaza/
Jews wrestling with DEI: https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-critics-of-dei-debate-the-future-of-us-campus-diversity-programs/
https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/former-adl-ajc-leaders-ab...
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January 8, 2025 • 61 mins
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Buy "Israel's Black Panthers": https://www.ucpress.edu/books/israels-black-panthers/hardcover
Asaf Elia-Shalev's work: https://www.jta.org/author/ashalev
The Nightingale of Iran: https://www.nightingaleofiran.com/
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Buy "Israel's Black Panthers": https://www.ucpress.edu/books/israels-black-panthers/hardcover
Asaf Elia-Shalev's work: https://www.jta.org/author/ashalev
The Nightingale of Iran: https://www.nightingaleofiran.com/
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December 31, 2024 • 31 secs
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December 25, 2024 • 34 mins
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Cincy Jewfolk's reporting: https://cincyjewfolk.com/2024/06/10/pro-palestinian-activists-force-resignations-from-cincinnati-pride/
Ethan Felson's writings warning about Pride 2024: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/03/14/what-will-you-do-to-make-pride-safe-this-year/
https://www.jta.org/2024/06/10/ideas/anti-israel-h...
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Cincy Jewfolk's reporting: https://cincyjewfolk.com/2024/06/10/pro-palestinian-activists-force-resignations-from-cincinnati-pride/
Ethan Felson's writings warning about Pride 2024: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/03/14/what-will-you-do-to-make-pride-safe-this-year/
https://www.jta.org/2024/06/10/ideas/anti-israel-h...
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December 18, 2024 • 66 mins
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2025 Power of Place trip info: https://minndakjcrc.org/event/the-power-of-place-2025-jcrc-educator-european-summer-institute/
2024 Power of Place trip stories:
A Mezuzah Imprint, A Chance Encounter, And A JCRC Holocaust Education Trip In Warsaw
Facing Nazi Atrocities, Teachers Trace Path From Warsaw To Treblinka
Face-To-F...
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2025 Power of Place trip info: https://minndakjcrc.org/event/the-power-of-place-2025-jcrc-educator-european-summer-institute/
2024 Power of Place trip stories:
A Mezuzah Imprint, A Chance Encounter, And A JCRC Holocaust Education Trip In Warsaw
Facing Nazi Atrocities, Teachers Trace Path From Warsaw To Treblinka
Face-To-F...
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December 11, 2024 • 49 mins
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2025 Power of Place trip info: https://minndakjcrc.org/event/the-power-of-place-2025-jcrc-educator-european-summer-institute/
2024 Power of Place trip stories:
A Mezuzah Imprint, A Chance Encounter, And A JCRC Holocaust Education Trip In Warsaw
Facing Nazi Atrocities, Teachers Trace Path From Warsaw To Treblinka
Face-To-F...
Donate to Jewfolk, Inc. – https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/4_4HDBpVjKH36Agwq-qi3A
2025 Power of Place trip info: https://minndakjcrc.org/event/the-power-of-place-2025-jcrc-educator-european-summer-institute/
2024 Power of Place trip stories:
A Mezuzah Imprint, A Chance Encounter, And A JCRC Holocaust Education Trip In Warsaw
Facing Nazi Atrocities, Teachers Trace Path From Warsaw To Treblinka
Face-To-F...
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December 4, 2024 • 3 mins
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June 17, 2024 • 48 mins
Many of us have watched college campuses around the country erupt in protests, with tent camps being set up on greenspaces calling for universities to disclose and divest from companies that do business in Israel. But when do the chants, signs and graffiti cross the line from first-amendment-protected free speech to something more nefarious? This week, we talk about this with Professor Jane Kirtley, a lawyer, and the director of th...
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April 20, 2023 • 51 mins
This week: The chaos of Elon Musk’s Twitter has chased users and news organizations away, while a new wave of Twitter clones try to recreate the sense of community it has. So what does this mean for the Jews, and why should anyone care? I talk about that with Serge, the founder of Babka Social, a new Jewish social media platform.
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April 7, 2023 • 56 mins
This week: Jewish women rarely get a fair shake in pop culture, often showing up as flat stereotypes like the “Jewish American Princess” trope. But over the past decade, especially on TV, that’s been changing. So I talk with Dr. Samantha Pickette, author of “Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman,” all about that.
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March 23, 2023 • 34 mins
This week: The Israeli president says the country is on the brink of civil war because the current government is trying to make the Israeli Supreme Court powerless. So let’s talk about judicial reform, and how the long-time-coming crisis is really the Occupation finally and fully biting Israel in the ass.
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March 2, 2023 • 28 mins
This week: ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have become all the rage, bringing an idealistic vision of revolutionizing work and communication. Some say that Jewish organizations should now be using these tools. So it’s time for a reality check on how these AI chatbots can affect the Jews.
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The Bagel Report...
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February 16, 2023 • 46 mins
This week: A group of LGBTQ students are suing Yeshiva University, representing a club called the YU Pride Alliance, to get it officially recognized by the school. The court case speaks to the future of queer Jews in Modern Orthodoxy — so I talk with Rachael Fried, the executive director at JQY, an organization in New York City that supports LGBTQ youth and young adults from Orthodox homes.
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February 2, 2023 • 56 mins
This week: About 100 years ago, in the wake of the Russian Revolution and the pogroms that followed, millions of Jews in Eastern Europe became Soviet Jews. But what really is a Soviet Jew? And how does that history affect Jews today? That’s what I talk about with UW Professor Sasha Senderovich.
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The Bag...
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December 22, 2022 • 78 mins
This week: It’s the last episode of the year, and a sort of follow up to both last year’s Hannukah Sucks episode, and this year’s State of the Union episode. After all, the holiday season can be a wonderful and frustrating time for Jews. So I have a chaotic chat about it with some of my coworkers here at Jewfolk.
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December 8, 2022 • 51 mins
This week: It’s time to revisit the story of hasidic yeshiva schools in New York City having poor secular education. After all, it’s important not just to understand what is happening, but why and how things came to be this way. So I talk to sociologist Matty Lichtenstein about her research on hasidic yeshiva advocacy.
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November 26, 2022 • 26 mins
This week: Welcome to part II of coverage of Israel’s recent election. In the last episode, I talked about the rise of bigoted far-right politicians not being the huge watershed moment many of us feared. In this one, I’ll talk about what it does represent, for Israel, but mostly, for American and Diaspora Jews.
This episode is also known as: I can't believe I'm talking so much for so long I'm very very sorry.
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This episode is also known as: I can't believe I'm talking so much for so long I'm very very sorry.
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November 10, 2022 • 27 mins
This week: On November 1st, Israel had its fifth national election in under four years. And frankly, a lot of Jews are panicking, because the results put an extremist, far-right, and racist group of Israeli politicians in line for power. So let’s dig into what happened, how to understand it, and what might come next.
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October 28, 2022 • 38 mins
This week: Jewish community takes a lot of work. You need money, motivation, and perhaps most of all, you need the people to run events and engage other Jews. But Jewish professionals are not having a great time right now, dealing with burnout, equity, and leadership issues. So I take a deep dive on this with consultant Angie Lieber.
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October 13, 2022 • 24 mins
This week: Rapper Kanye West is spreading antisemitism, Jews are fighting about it, and the head of the Anti-Defamation League recently compared the man who would own Twitter, Elon Musk, to notorious antisemite Henry Ford. How are these things all connected? By a failure of Jewish leadership on internet policy.
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