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For this week’s short we spoke with Ariana Katz, creator of the Kaddish podcast - a new show about death, mourning, and the people who do it.
The first episode of Kaddish was released earlier this week, you can listen here. And you can follow Kaddish on Facebook and Twitter!
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On this week’s short, we spoke with Dove Kent, outgoing director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), about the group’s work, the direction they’re headed, and how the organization has changed since it’s founding 25 years ago.
From the HuffingtonPost bio: M. Dove Kent is the Executive Director of Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) in New York City. She has over a decade of experience in issue-based, identity-based, and neighborhood-based organizing in Boston, St. Louis, and New York in the fields of affordable housing, immigrant rights, police accountability, restorative justice, religious freedom, and community arts. She teaches on widely on anti-Semitism and the roles of Jews in the movement for justice.
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Episode 19: The End of Leftist Jewish Publishing in Canada
On this episode, we try to crowdsource a new tagline for the podcast, kicking off the #treyftagline twitter campaign - send us your ideas! We’re then joined by Hani Ghazi, organizer with Adalah NY, for a new instalment of BDS Watch Watch about NY Governor Cuomo’s recent executive order to criminalize BDS. Sam introduces our first listener-submitted Shkoyach and David tries to understand a confrontation between far-right activists and Israeli tourists in the Ukraine. For the interview we’re joined by Carl Rosenberg, editor of Outlook Magazine, to talk about closing the doors on Canada’s last remaining leftist Jewish publication. We talk about Outlook’s final issue and the legacy he hopes they leave behind.
Show Notes
News 1- BDS Watch Watch
The Electronic Intifada – NY Governor’s decree escalates Israel’s Fight Against BDS
Adalah – NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel
Shkoyakh
Tablet – The Jews of the Canine World
Tablet – Are Jews A Dog or A Cat People?
Jewish pilgrims in Ukraine trigger brawl by shooting
local with BB gun
The Interview – Carl Rosenberg
Outlook: Canada’s Progressive Jewish Magazine
The CJN – Canadian Jewish Magainze Outlook Publishes its Last Issue
Wikipedia - Canadian Jewish Congress
Recommendation
Jewschool “Jewish Fear & Anti-Semitism in Canada”
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It’s our ‘Chai’ episode! We started it off by talking about Italian Eurocommunism and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). We were joined by Josh Nathan Kazis, a staff writer at the Jewish Daily Forward, to talk about a growing scandal in New York City politics, reaching from the Mayor’s office to the orthodox communities of Borough Park and Williamsburg. This episode featured a description-free Shkoyach, with discussions of kosher labelling, kosher restaurant month, and the contentious subject of raisin challah. For the interview, we talked about the recent Jews of Color National Convening with conference organizer Leo Ferguson and Montreal activist Hirut Eyob. Finally, Aviva Stahl’s recent article for Alternet’s Grayzone Project is our recommendation for the week.
*EDIT: during this week’s Shkoyach segment, David convinced Sam that COR stood for ‘Council of Orthodox Rabbis.’ This is incorrect. It appears that COR is not an acronym at all, instead a mysterious shorthand used by the Kashruth Council of Canada to label their certified products. Please direct all questions their way.
Show Notes
News 1
Ditmas Park Corner - Yiddish-Speaking Street Gang Called ‘The Forks’ Linked To NYPD Bribery Scandal
New York Daily News - Jeremy Reichberg used cop connects to squash raps: victims
Forward -Analysis: Investigations Strain De Blasio’s Carefully Cultivated Ties to Orthodox
Daily Beast - Meet the Shomrim—the Hasidic Volunteer ‘Cops’ Who Answer to Nobody
NY Post - Orthodox Jewish leader allegedly bragged about NYPD bribes for pistol permits
Shkoyach
http://www.cjnews.com/food/may-kosher-restaurant-month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hechsher
Interview
Jews of Color National Convening - ABOUT THE CONVENING
Jewschool -Jews of Color National Convening
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Recommendation
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We’re back after a one month hiatus! On this week’s episode, we talked with activist and journalist Jesse Myerson about his recent exchange with the Forward’s JJ Goldberg, and the Jewish media’s coverage of Bernie Sanders. We took a new approach to describing the Shkoyach segment, Sam talked about a Chassidic gang in Borough Park, and David awarded his Shkoyach to a Montreal synagogue distancing themselves from an illegal kosher wine ring. For the interview, we were joined by Michelle Weiser from the new group If Not Now to talk about their origins, their Liberation Seder actions, and their strategy of confronting the institutional Jewish community. Finally, the deadline to submit to the new issue of Jenna Brager’s Doykeit Zine is rapidly approaching - we spoke with her briefly for this week’s recommendation.
Show Notes
Header
Canadian Jewish News - Rights Hearing for Jewish Hairdresser Forced Not to Work on Shabbat Delayed
News 1 - Sanders’ Jewishness and the Jewish Press
Village Voice - The Heresy and Evangelism of Bernie Sanders
The Forward - How An Anti-Zionist Embrace of Bernie Was a Gift to Bibi and Hilary
Village Voice - Sorry Forward, You’re Wrong About Bernie
Jacobin - Why We Stand with Simone
Jewish Press - Bernie Sanders is Not a Jew
The Atlantic - Remembering Liberman’s Career Through Jon Stewart
Shkoyakh
Ditmas Park Corner - Yiddish-Speaking Street Gang Called ‘The Forks’ Linked To NYPD Bribery Scandal
New York Daily News - Jeremy Reichberg used cop connects to squash raps: victims
JTA - Montreal Police Seize 8000 Bottles of Illegally Imported Kosher Wine
Global News - Montreal Police Seize Thousands of Bottles of Kosher Wine from Synagogue
The Interview: Michelle Weiser from If Not Now Boston
Democracy Now - Liberation Seder Protests in NYC, Boston, Chicago, DC, and SF
The Awl - Getting Arrested at the Liberation Seder
The Forward - 17 Jewish Activists Protesting Israeli Occupation Arrested at ADL Headquarters
Recommendation
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