The Jews Are Tired
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The Jews Are Tired
A weekly digest of the big stories around the Jewish world, through a Jewish Journalist lens.
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DEI & The Jews w/Ginna Green
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Israel's Black Panthers And The Nation They Exposed w/Asaf Elia-Shalev
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New Year Break/Message
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Pride, Queer Jews, & Israel w/Ethan Felson
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Holocaust Education Part II w/Mira Zelle & Libby Cohen
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Holocaust Education Part I w/ Heather Loeschke & Mike Musil
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TJAT Episode 4: Return Of The Jew(s Are Tired)
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What Is Free Speech On Campus?
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...
96. Babka Social (with Serge from Babka)
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...
95. TV's Unapologetic Jewish Women (feat. Dr. Samantha Pickette)
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 ov...
94. Israeli Judicial Reform
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 Co...
93. The Jewish Case Against ChatGPT
This week: ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have become all the rage, bringing an idealistic vision of revolutionizing work and communication. Some say t...
92. Yeshiva University vs. Queer Jews (with Rachael Fried)
This week: A group of LGBTQ students are suing Yeshiva University, representing a club called the YU Pride Alliance, to get it officially recognized b...
91. How The Soviet Jew Was Made (with Sasha Senderovich)
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...
90. The Great Hannukah/Merry Christmas Shenanigan Bonanza (with Izzy Wellman, Carli Shapiro, and Emma Pelc)
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 e...
89. How Yeshiva Schools Avoid Secular Education (with Matty Lichtenstein)
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 jus...
88. Defend, Defend, Defend! Israeli Elections Part II
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 n...
87. Is Israel Lost To Extremists? Elections Part I
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...
86. Jewish Professional Troubles (with Angie Lieber)
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 oth...
85. No Jewish Leadership On Internet Policy
This week: Rapper Kanye West is spreading antisemitism, Jews are fighting about it, and the head of the Anti-Defamation League recently compared the m...
84. Yeshiva Education Failure (with Manny Vogel)
This week: A New York Times investigation has all the Jews talking about education in hasidic yeshiva schools — specifically, about the poor secular e...
83. Banning Anne Frank (with Laney Hawes)
This week: The right-wing Christian movement to ban some books from libraries is growing, with one school district in Texas pulling all versions of Th...
82. My Homeland Is Ukraine (with Mariia Hershova)
This week: We’re approaching six months of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and by extension, six months of the Ukrainian refugee crisis. So I talk with Marii...
81. Israeli Elections Need To Slow Down -- But They Probably Won't
This week: Israel recently experienced a government collapse, throwing the country into yet another election cycle — the fifth election in under four...
80. State Of The Union (with Izzy Wellman, Carli Shapiro, and Emma Pelc)
This week: Young American Jews are angry. A lot of us are angry about losing abortion rights; we’re angry about gun violence; and we’re angry about ri...
79. Without Roe v Wade...Again (with Rabbi Hara Person)
This week: The Supreme Court unveiled a ruling right before Shabbat overturning the federal abortion protections guaranteed in Roe v Wade. To talk abo...
78. Enough Bullshit On Guns
This week: Uvalde is only the second-worst elementary school shooting in the U.S. That's sick to say, but it's true. So I let loose with my anger over...
77. Behind The Times of Israel (with David Horovitz)
This week: David Horovitz, the Editor in Chief of the Times of Israel, is the JCRC’s featured speaker for its June 12 event in Minneapolis. But before...
76. Sex Party Bintel (with Ginna Green, Lynn Harris, and Chana Pollack)
This week: The second season of the A Bintel Brief podcast, a revival of the classic advice column from The Forward, is upon us. So I talk with hosts...
75. AIPAC And Insurrection Republicans
This week: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the most influential pro-Israel lobbying groups, is directly fundraising for politicia...
74. Passover Economics and Unsettled Israel
This week, let’s take a quick look at some Passover-related news just in time for the start of the holiday, as well as an update on Deborah Lipstadt’s...
73. The Belarus Connection (with Margo)
This week, one of the overlooked aspects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the role that Belarus, the dictatorship to the north, plays. So I speak wi...
72. Ukrainians Are Jews Now (with Alice Chudnovsky)
When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, many Russian-speaking Jews in the U.S. started organizing direct humanitarian aid to Ukrainians. I talk...
71. "So They Remember," A Soviet Holocaust Story (with Maksim Goldenshteyn)
Maksim Goldenshteyn, a Russian-speaking Jew in Seattle, just published arguably the foremost book about Romania’s overlooked role in the Holocaust, ce...
70. Congress Hearings, Deborah Lipstadt, And The Jews
Almost a month after a rabbi and three congregants were taken hostage at a synagogue in Texas, Congress held two hearings related to Jews: A Senate he...
69. Fandom, Culture, And The Jews (with Michal Schick)
I usually talk on this podcast about Jewish political events, but there have also been some interesting Jewish culture trends (particularly around rep...
68. Processing The Shabbat Hostage Crisis
This week, I try to process the recent hostage situation at a synagogue in Texas, and the many Jewish hot takes that emerged on social media as the cr...
67. Home In A Hundred Places (with Sarah Dayan Mueller)
This week, I speak to Egyptian-Jewish and Filipina author Sarah Dayan Mueller about her latest book “Home In A Hundred Places.” The book tells the sto...
66. A New Years Review Of 2021
It’s the last episode of 2021, so it’s also a good time for a new years overview of some of the big trends and stories in the Jewish world. It’s been...
65. Inclusion Struggles? Now There's A Book For That
Miriam Steinberg-Egeth and Warren Hoffman are co-editors of a new book titled “Warm and Welcoming,” billed as the first book to address inclusion issu...