Making Mensches

Join Making Mensches for our special conversation with Binya and Xava, creators of Shel Maala Yeshiva - a digital-first queer Yeshiva! We talk about the importance of queer, anti-zionist, accessible Torah and Talmud study, the rewards and challenges of this work, abolitionist and anti-zionist Torah, and so much more. We can’t wait for you to listen, and we hope you’ll join us for our joint event on MAY 23RD - both in NYC and online on Zoom. Please RSVP for more details!

The work Shel Maala does is essential, please consider supporting their work! Join one of their classes, such as the one we discuss in this episode, Torah from the Inside Out: Cohort for Incarcerated People and Allies. If you’re curious about (or want to support, we hope!) Matir Asurim, you can find more info here.

[This episode was recorded in March 2025.]

Big thanks to Xava and Binya for being on the pod, to Jessie for editing the podcast, and to Nate for our podcast music. If you want to support our work, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can do so here.⁠⁠⁠⁠

We hope you're as excited as we are for this conversation with Joey Ramona, iconic Toronto based punk rock tattooer, visual artist, and a self-described “weird Jewish punk guy.”

We talk with Joey about being an anti-zionist Jewish tattooer, about how tattoos can help people deepen their connection to Judaism, about the concept of doikayt and researching ashkenazi tradition, about mutual aid and community organizing, and so much more! If you want to book an appointment with Joey, reach out to them at Bookingsbyjoey@gmail.com⁠

We feel so lucky that we get to have incredible conversations with people we admire so much <3

Links to things we discuss in the episode:

• The zine Joey made a few years ago about Jewish tattooing
• Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction org
• Sudan Solidarity Collective
• Toronto PYM chapter
• Jews Say No to Genocide

[This episode was recorded in March 2025.]

Big thanks to Joey for being on the pod, to Jessie for editing the podcast, and to Nate for our podcast music. If you want to support our work, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can do so here.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Join us as we talk to Stephanie (they/them), founder of Taste of Olam Haba, a vibrant Jewish community in Central Arkansas founded in 2021. We discuss the growth of Taste of Olam Haba and what building this community has looked like, what it's been like to engage with the rise and presence of fascism in the South, backlash from zionist Jewish community, and much more. Thank you to Stephanie and Taste of Olam Haba for this conversation and for all the work you do in Arkasas! If you're in Central Arkansas and looking for anti-zionist Jewish community, make sure to connect with Taste of Olam Haba.

Stephanie is also a co-founder of Little Rock Peace for Palestine, and you can find more information about their work here.

This episode is the first in what will be an ongoing conversation series with Jewish spiritual communities that exist outside of major cities, in an effort to uplift these spaces and discuss the unique challenges and joys that these communities face.

[This episode was recorded in March 2025.]

Big thanks to Stephanie for being on the pod, to Jessie for editing the podcast, and to Nate for our podcast music. If you want to support our work, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can do so here.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Join us for an extra special episode with ⁠Ayeola Omolara Kaplan⁠ and ⁠⁠Hadar Cohen⁠, two of the talented artists who created pieces for the ⁠⁠DWELL in Revolution project. In this episode, we discuss their creation processes, the ancestors that they depicted, why this project is important, and everything in between. Listen to the full episode to hear ⁠Shelby Handler⁠ reading their piece from DWELL!

So much work went into this beautiful project, a project that enables folks to learn about and honor their anti-zionist ancestors. It is so essential that we see these examples of anti-zionism in our history, so that we can strengthen our own anti-zionist foundations. It’s equally as essential to begin learning about ancient ancestral practices and rituals that zionism has tried to stamp out of Judaism. ⁠⁠If you don’t already have it, you can purchase the DWELL zine here.⁠⁠

[This episode was recorded in February 2025.]

Big thanks to Ayeola and Hadar for joining us, to Shelby for reading their piece, and to Jessie for editing the podcast, and to Nate for our podcast music. If you want to support our work, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can do so here.⁠⁠⁠

Join us for an extra special episode with Micah Bazant and Ollie Schwartz, two of the main organizers of the DWELL in Revolution project, as we discuss the creation process and intention behind the zine, in addition to discussing the complexities and joy that are a part of organizing for our movement. 

So much work went into this beautiful project, a project that enables folks to learn about and honor their anti-zionist ancestors. It is so essential that we see these examples of anti-zionism in our history, so that we can strengthen our own anti-zionist foundations. It’s equally as essential to begin learning about ancient ancestral practices and rituals that zionism has tried to stamp out of Judaism.

Stay tuned for the second part of this series where we talk with two of the artists included in the project about their creation process!

If you don’t already have it, you can purchase the DWELL zine here.

[This episode was recorded in February 2025.]

Big thanks to Micah and Ollie for joining us, to Jessie for editing the podcast, and to Nate for our podcast music. If you want to support our work, ⁠⁠⁠⁠you can do so here.⁠

For this episode, we are joined by ⁠Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, who graciously talks with us about her recent book, “The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World.” Ariella is a film essayist, theorist, curator of archives, and professor currently teaching Modern Culture and Media in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Ariella talks us through Jewelers of the Ummah, discusses what the Jewish Muslim world is, how empires dictate history and peoplehood to serve their own interests, what principled anti-zionism looks like, how she has deepened her ancestral connections, and much much more. This is not an episode to miss! Every second is full of wisdom and steadfast love. 

Join us in two weeks for an exciting episode with more than one special guest 👀

[This episode was recorded in February 2025.]

Big thanks to Ariella for joining us, to Jessie for editing the podcast, and to Nate for our podcast music. If you want to support our work, ⁠⁠⁠you can do so here.⁠

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In our midseason finale, we are joined by Eliana Rubin, who talks (among many, many other things) about their new book, “Taking the State out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism.” Eliana builds transgressive relationships with bodies, land, and lineage through their work as a somatic practitioner, politicized facilitator, anti-Zionist organizer, full spectrum doula, land steward, and queer pleasure instigator. They run a somatic facilitation practice with Sanctuary Embodied aimed at resourcing organizers in developing embodied leadership and power for movements for justice.

While discussing her brilliant book, Eliana gives insight to what somatics are, how somatic practices can support us through challenging conversations with Zionists, speaks to some of the plants and body parts that informed the book - like calendula, redwoods, and the vagus nerve, and talks about the pitfalls of individualistic models of therapy. Eliana goes beyond fighting for liberation, and teaches us how to live for liberation. 

Find more of Eliana on their instagram or website, and go buy the book ASAP! We truly could not recommend it enough.

We will be back with more episodes in February, see you then!

[This episode was recorded in November 2024.]

Big thanks to Eliana for joining us, to Jessie for editing the podcast, and to Nate for our podcast music. If you want to support our work, ⁠⁠you can do so here.⁠

Golems, Dybukks, Psychedelics, oh my! Today we are joined by Julie Weitz (she/her) - diasporic performance artist, Fulbright Scholar, and co-creator of the Tzitzit Project - some of you may know her as @MyGolem_is_here.

In this episode, Julie reflects on her time in Poland and the ways that we can reconnect with our ancestral homeland outside. Julie talks about recent and past projects, what brought her to performance art, and the ways her work is informed by anti-zionism. We can’t wait for you to listen!

UPCOMING OFFERING FROM JULIE:

Online Dybbuk Workshop

Sunday, December 8 at 11am pst / 1pm cst / 2pm est / 8pm cet / 9pm ist

Registration Link: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/event_step2/MTkzNzI1/289544 

Join artist Julie Weitz for a dynamic online workshop exploring ancestral folktales about the dybbuk and Jewish rituals of exorcism. Drawing from her extensive research and artistic practice, Weitz will share stories, images, and videos that illuminate the cultural and spiritual significance of the dybbuk. Participants will also explore simple, accessible movement techniques inspired by Yiddish dance, fostering embodied connections to their ancestors.

The session incorporates insights from Holy Names for Our Dybbuk, Weitz’s performance art project that reimagines dybbuk exorcism as a movement-based ritual at sites of Jewish memory in Poland. Conducted in English, this workshop welcomes participants of all backgrounds and requires no prior experience. Come dressed comfortably and ready to engage in storytelling, movement, and learning.

All ticket proceeds will support the artistic collaborators of Holy Names for Our Dybbuk.

If funds are a concern, use the discount code DISCOUNT50 at checkout for 50% off.

Links to things we mention in this episode:

-No State Manifesto

-Rabbi Aaron Tamares

-The Great Dominatrix

-Kosmic Kamels (@kosmickamels)

[This episode was recorded in October 2024.]

Big thanks to Julie for joining us, to Jessie for editing the podcast, and to Nate for our podcast music. If you want to support our work, ⁠⁠you can do so here.⁠

We are joined by the brilliant Jules Pashall (they/he) for this episode! Jules is a fat, white, trans/queer Jew who holds space as a somatic, creative and spiritual practitioner. Their offerings are built on the belief that undoing violent hierarchies and how they live in our bodies is part of the path of soul retrieval and collective liberation. For 15 years, they have been exploring fat as a resource for transformation. Jules holds a master’s degree in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and their writing can be found in The Fat Studies Journal and Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics.

In this episode, we explore all things fat. How Judaism loves fat, how fat is connected to liberation, how fatness is weaponized in our world, how people can be invited into - and celebrate! - their fat, and so so much more. Jules is an endless well of wisdom and we imagine you will feel as inspired by them as we do after listening! 

UPCOMING OFFERINGS FROM JULES:

-Feeding the Erotic: A Jewish winter journey spanning Hannukah to Tu Bshvat

Dec 19-Feb 13th Thursdays 8-10 ET / 5-7 PT (Led by Jules and elana june margolis)

-Tonguing the Divine: a Tu B’shvat Retreat at Mariposa Institute in Ukiah, CA 2/14-2/17 (Led by Jules and elana june margolis)

-One on one work with new clients for 10 weeks of “a season of practice” - follow him for more information!

You can read “thank god i’m fat: gifts from the underbelly” by Jules here and join his email list here to stay updated on upcoming offerings.

[This episode was recorded in August 2024.]

Big thanks to Jules for joining us, to Jessie for editing the podcast, and to Nate for our podcast music. If you want to support our work, ⁠you can do so here.⁠

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Oren Kroll-Zeldin, who is the assistant director of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco where he is also an assistant professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. Oren recently published his first book, “Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine.” You can buy the book here!

“Unsettled digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage with the Palestine solidarity movement and challenge the staunch pro-Israel stance of mainstream Jewish American institutions. The book explores how these activists address Israeli government policies of occupation and apartheid, and seek to transform American Jewish institutional support for Israel.”

As we talk with Oren, we delve into the research that led to Unsettled and explore the growth of anti-zionist community and activism over the last few decades. We talk about necessary tools in liberation movements and the complex nuances of organizing. We are deeply grateful to Oren for this conversation and hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed having it.

Links:

Check out this article by Oren

Check out this article Oren mentions by Sarah Anne Minkin about Palestinians as present absentees

Join us as we talk to Ezra Star (he/they) and Jen Deerinwater (Jen), two organizers with Disability Divest, as we talk about Disability Divest and their work, how genocide is a mass disabling event, and how Ezra combines his drag and Judaism.

Ezra, also known by their drag name - Neuro Cosmos - is a queer, anti-zionist, disabled drag artist in DC and one of the organizers of Disability Divest.

Jen is the Founding Executive Director of Crushing Colonialism, Crushing Colonialism is an Indigenous-led nonprofit that uplifts and supports Indigenous people through arts, media, and traditional storytelling. Jen is a fellow organizer of Disability Divest!

Some helpful links:

Sins Invalid 

Disability Divest (@disabilitydivest) • Instagram photos and videos

Tefillat Trans - SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva

Big thanks to Jen and Ezra for joining us, to Jessie for editing the podcast, and to Nate for our podcast music. If you want to support our work, you can do so here.

Join us as we talk to ⁠Rabbi Chel Mandell (they/them). Chel is the founder and rabbi of TzimTzum Community in Santa Cruz, CA. Tzimtzum is a community of queer, trans, and gender-expansive Jews centering the Jewish diasporist experience; refocusing on Jewish tradition, ritual, and community gathering in Santa Cruz. 

We talk with Rabbi Chel about molding Jewish tradition for our communities, centering their practice around the surf, and the process of building their community. 

You can learn more about Tzimtzum here and we encourage you to join if you are in Santa Cruz!

Huge thank you to Chel for joining us for this episode, Jessie for editing the podcast, and Nate for our podcast music. If you are interested in supporting our work, ⁠you can do so here.

Join us as we talk to Leora Fridman (she/her). Leora is a Jewish writer whose work is concerned with issues of identity, care, ability, and embodiment. Leora is the author of upcoming book “Bound Up: On Kink, Power, and Belonging” which is “an autotheoretical journey through bondage, domination, and intimacy, [in which she] uncovers how Jewish historical trauma can be challenged and explored in embodied relations.” “Bound Up” comes out TOMORROW and you can pre-order it here!

If you're based in NYC, check out ⁠Leora's New York launch event for Bound Up: October 10, 2024⁠. If you're outside of NY, you can still see Leora on her book tour!

Leora is an absolute trove of knowledge and links to the various things she mentions can be found below:

• Dispossession, Diasporas, & Doikayt: Shellyne Rodriguez, Molly Crabapple, and Andreas Petrossiants in conversation at PPOW Gallery

• Is Holocaust Education Making Anti-Semitism Worse? By Dara Horn

• Sins Invalid's 10 Principles of Disability Justice
• You Barely Even Work Here: On Higher Education and the Myths of Neutrality by Leora Fridman
• The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop by Felicia Rose Chavez
• Unthinking Mastery by Julietta Singh 
• Jo Kent Katz: Transcending Jewish Trauma
• Dori Midnight
• Kruim Yachad (Torn Together): Diasporist Grief Work for the Long Haul
• Understanding Antimsemitism: An Offering to Our Movement - A Resource from Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
• New Jewish Culture Fellowship
• Kaddish for an Unborn Avant-Garde by Maia Ipp
• How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability and Doom by Johanna Hedva

• Studies in Hysteria by Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer
• Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz
• Another Freedom: The Alternative History of An Idea by Svetlana Boym

• A Birth of One’s Own: On Inheritance, Curation, and Production by Leora Fridman
• Static Palace by Leora Fridman

Huge thank you to Leora for joining us for this episode, Jessie for editing the podcast, and Nate for our podcast music. If you are interested in supporting our work, you can do so here.

Listen to Chaia's new single, ⁠Borough Park⁠, out as of 9/13/24.

If you are in NYC, check out the ⁠Diasporic Techno Night ⁠Chaia mentions, happening Friday 9/13 all evening.

If you’re on the West coast, Chaia has lots of events coming up there! You can also find her at the Pop Montreal Festival. You can find all her events on ⁠her website⁠.

Chaia writes about her single, “Borough Park samples my grandmother describing her childhood growing up in Borough Park. She would always tell me a story of her childhood there by prefacing it with “this might shock you.” Her childhood in the Jewish community there was very different than we imagine Jewish community operating today. It was pluralistic, interdenominational, mixed gender, mixed class. It sounds like the community that I imagine creating today. A community that I found small microcosms of in the queer Jewish, anti-state, and klezmer communities. A community that I’ve also found in the techno world. This is a story of that community paired with a Yiddish song called Oyfn Oyvn (sung here by a young Ethel Raim), which talks about a girl who convinces a boy to sit with her on an oven not by appealing to his background, or by physical force, but with gentle love and embrace."

Chaia is a wealth of knowledge and she shares so much of it with us in this episode. Some of the things she mentions are:

• The book, "Assembling a Black Counter Culture" by Deforrest Brown Jr
• The ⁠Clear the Floor collective ⁠
• The ⁠Yiddish Song of the Week archive⁠
• ⁠Hankus Netsky - NECMusic⁠
• Juan Atkins (the "Godfather of techno") 
• The ⁠Ruth Rubin archive ⁠
• ⁠Itzik Gottesman ⁠
• ⁠Ethel Raim ⁠
• ⁠Lily Henley⁠ fellow musician making Ladino music
• ⁠Micah Simone⁠, Jewish-Egyptian-American dance artist
• ⁠Avia Moore⁠, who also runs the ⁠Klez Kanada festival⁠
• ⁠Pepi Litman ⁠- The Yiddish drag king  
• The ⁠Yiddish New York festival⁠
• ⁠LEVYOSN⁠ - the Klezmer band Chaia is part of 

Thank you to Chaia for joining us, Jessie for editing the podcast, and Nate for the podcast music. If you are interested in supporting our work, ⁠you can do so here.⁠

[The images mentioned by Ayelet can be found here!]

Ticket sales from this event allowed us to raise $308 toward evacuating two families from Gaza, and we encourage you all to continue sharing and donating: Venmo & PayPal — @minahilakbar76 CashApp — $4shM3   PayPal: ⁠minahilakbar330@gmail.com⁠

If you're interested in going to the Sex Worker Open Mic Night and bringing letters or art for the solidarity book mentioned, it's ⁠Sept 20th from 6-10pm at Starr Bar in Brooklyn⁠. 

We encourage you to check out ⁠A Stripper’s Guide Podcast⁠ - a resource for sex workers and femmes. You can find Leilah at ⁠@leilahfeinstein⁠!

You can read more of Ayelet’s work ⁠on his blog⁠.

Some resources that we used to inform our conversation are below: 

⁠Tu B'av⁠

⁠https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.12.18?lang=bi&aliyot=0⁠ 

⁠https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.23.16?lang=bi⁠ 

⁠https://www.sefaria.org/Kiddushin.40a.17?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en⁠ 

⁠https://www.nswp.org/country/israel⁠ 

⁠https://decriminalizesex.work/why-decriminalization/briefing-papers/decriminalization-is-the-only-solution/⁠ 

⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/xai-how-are-you/id1500147124⁠  

Here’s t⁠he specific link to the episode about kink work and Talmudic halakhah⁠.

⁠https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/maacah-wife-of-david-midrash-and-aggadah⁠ 

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'll be back with another episode soon 👀

Already donated to direct funds to Gazans and want to support our work? You can do so ⁠here.⁠

Get daily updates and info on events on our ⁠Instagram⁠ or our ⁠newsletter⁠.

Our first episode back is 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 will be back with part 2 next week, so stay tuned!

Already donated to direct funds to Gazans and want to support our work? You can do so here.

Get daily updates and info on events on our Instagram or our newsletter.

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 identify as a "diasporist," a bit about the founders personal backgrounds, and how they conceive of the connection between anti-zionism and diasporism. Stay tuned for future collaboration with them, and as usual, free Palestine, by any means necessary.

Some things of note:

-The photo for this episode is of Ben in front of his great great grandfathers home in Poland. He was able to track down the exact home with the help of Zach.

-DONATE to help Tzion Kaukira provide copies of the torah in Luganda in the 12 synagogues across Uganda. Listen to their episode with Tzion here!

-Zach, one of the founders of The Jewish Diasporist, is from Poland and is eager to help other folks with lineage there discover family history. If you want to take him up on this, feel free to reach out to him by emailing contact@jewishdiasporist.com

-Jordan talks more about the ecology of love on this episode of The Jewish Diasporist

-Zach wrote this piece for Forward about the Polish parliament Hanukkah incident, we encourage folks to give it a read if they don't know about the incident

For additional information, head to our instagram

From the river to the sea 🇵🇸

Thank you to Nate for our podcast music, and Jessie for editing the pod!

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.wav for our podcast music - go listen to this as a podcast if you prefer! Link in bio!

AND don’t forget to sign up for our NEWSLETTER so you get access to our sources and that amazing meditation we mentioned 🥰

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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 workbook that Sol illustrated, which is for sale now! (Being with Grief: a Book of Doodles & Prompts: a creative workbook for young adults (and beyond) who’ve experienced significant loss. Part coloring book, part journal, and part ritual guide, this workbook offers 67 pages of low-stakes, self-directed ways to engage with loss on your own terms. Written by Noach Cochran, Katherine Evering-Rowe and Chloe Zelkha, illustrated by Sol.)

🌱 Jewish Agricultural Calendar by the Jewish Farmer Network, illustrated by Sol, available for purchase now as well

🌱 The book Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkins

🌱 Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz and radical diasporism

🌱 Linke Fligl

🌱 Tzedek Lab, where Sol is the Director of Communications & Resource Sharing

🌱 The Sacred Orchard poster and series, created with Dori Midnight (Sacred Orchard: an 18"x24" poster made in collaboration with Dori Midnight exploring seven trees in Jewish magic, myth and medicine. Part of a series that includes a smaller poster on Jewish amulet craft and protection plants, and a Jewish plant magic postcard set.)

🌱 Ushpizin(e): Sukkot edition of Ki Li Ha'aretz, Linke Fligl's zine on reparations and homecoming in Jewish diaspora. (available for download at https://linkefligl.com/zine and in hard copy at https://www.pushcartjudaica.com/shop-old/p/ushpizine-sukkot-zine-ritual-guide)

More about Sol:

“Sol has served their communities as a visual artist, ritualist and educator for over a decade, using cultural organizing to explore how land, kinship and Jewish tradition can support us in overcoming oppression, healing from colonization and building new worlds. From 2017-2021, they were Co-Director at Linke Fligl queer Jewish chicken farm, where they cultivated wild queer community, held earth-based ritual space and co-facilitated programs for anti-colonial Jewish land connection. They have been on the strategy team for the JVP Havurah Network, a co-founder and ritual leader of Nishmat Shoom, and Director of Operational Change at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. When they’re not in the print shop, the kitchen or the garden, Sol is working with Tzedek Lab as Director of Communications and Resource Sharing to support a growing network of visionaries and changemakers moving the Jewish world towards justice for all.”

As always, shout out to Jessie for editing the pod and Nate for our podcast music!

Join us next time for a Sukkot episode with Sol Weiss (they/them) 🥳

As always, shoutout to Nate for our podcast music and to Jessie for editing the pod!

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 joy and love

🕯️what it really means to dream the world to come

🕯️how time is just a spiral and we are constantly starting over

🕯️ letting ourselves belong

Check out the Al Nes (for the miracle we enlivened) - the supplement to the Al Chet they mention in this episode. They also mention the JVP Havurah Network, and talk about the Cheshvan episode of Dreaming The World to Come with Yishaq Ofori Solomon.

*** If you’re interested in setting up a somatic coaching session with Rebekah, please email them at rebekah@rebekaherevstudio.com to set up a consult! ***

For more about Tishrei, check out our Tishrei post on instagram

Join us next time for our first episode just us in ages, as we talk about Yom Kippur 🕊️ 

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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 about Veronica's activism around nuclear disarmament and how their identities effortlessly find their way into their art. We also discuss the power of mourning together - especially on the large-scale with folks who engage with their music. 

There is so much juicy goodness in this episode, we can't wait for you to listen! 🫐

Get tickets to Melt's fall tour and listen to their newest song “Walk to Midnight” 🎶

We will be back in a few weeks with an episode for Rosh Chodesh Tishrei 👀

Thank you to Nate for our podcast music and Jessie for being the podcast editor extraordinaire 🙏

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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. For more of Micah's work, check out their website!

Here is the link for the talk Micah mentioned, about Anti-racism in Creative Practice, and for the Creative Wildfire Project. We deeply encourage listeners to support Ashley Diamond.

Next week, we will be talking to Veronica (they/she/any pronouns). Veronica is an artist, writer, and anti-nuclear weapons activist!

As usual, thank you to Nate for our podcast music and to Jessie for editing the pod!

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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 be found HERE.

Anna asked us to highlight the Instagram art page Art Auction for Palestine and talks about For the People, the queer/BIPOC Houston show management page. They have a show coming up in October if you are Houston based!

They recently had their writing featured as an art piece at the Everything Is Special Art Show by Hotel Chlorine.

If you want to read more of their published writing, you can find it here.

Join us next week as we talk to Micah Bazant (they/them), a visual artist and cultural strategist who works with social justice movements to reimagine the world.

As usual, shoutout to Nate for our podcast music and shoutout to Jessie for editing the podcast!

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You can listen to Astera’s podcast HERE, read their poem we talk about HERE, and read their article we mentioned HERE.

If you want more of their poetry, it’s HERE. She also plays piano HERE and has a mixed media IG HERE. Also, stay tuned because they will be published in Lilth Magazine this fall! 👀

The song Jessie mentioned can be found HERE. 

Join us for our next episode with @annarajagopal, they/she, a South Asian Jewish writer and poet anchored in Houston, Texas.

As always, s/o to Nate for our podcast music!

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You can get in contact with Naomi on their instagram and check out their art on their website.

We talk about the Olam Haba planner created by Rebekah Erev and Nomy Lamb, which you can find here.

We also talk about Rebellious Anarchist Young Jews (RAYJ) and the podcast that Naomi hosts for The Jewish Museum of Maryland, Disloyal.

The books they plug at the end of the episode are:

“There’s Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart”

“With Freedom in Our Ears”  

“Practical Anarchism”

See you next week when we talk to Astera (she/they)! Astera is a multhiethnic sefardi writer, pianist, and photographer who is passionate about preserving diasporic languages and customs alive, anti-zionism, and creating.

As always, s/o to Nate for our podcast music!

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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 for our podcast music!

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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 reading a play THIS SATURDAY in Philly, you can find details here.

She'll also be reading some poems in Philly on August 18th, but follow her for more details on that as they come!

Join us next week when we talk to Nick! Nick, or Tahini, (they/them) is an Agender Jewish artist, tattooer and farmer residing in Northern NY, originally from the Philadelphia area.

As always, thank you to Nate for our podcast music!

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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 ZAI 

⁠Read the NYT article ZAI was featured in!⁠ 

Come back next week when we talk to ⁠@parker.sera⁠ - a queer, Ashkenazic actor, poet, theatre maker and teaching artist 🫶🏼

S/o to Nate for our podcast music!

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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 Generations Project and their cousins book, The Cost of Free Land by Rebecca Clarren.

See you next week for our talk with @kxngzaire - a Black Trans Masc bespoke designer, punk rapper and model born and based in NYC 🥳🥳🥳

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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 singer/songwriter and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn.

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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 🥳

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 here are some:
-White Jews should understand why Black Americans need reparations now by Jewish Telegraphic Agency [article]
-the Empowerment Ladder is in From White Racist to White Anti Racist by Tema Okun
-Check out @joyous.justice new workshop that we mention! (Racial Justice Launch Pad)

linktr.ee/makingmensches

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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%.

Shoutout to @fckingthefineprint for this amazing joint series and to Nate for our podcast music!

For more info, check out Making Mensches on all platforms, or linktr.ee/makingmensches

[Episode originally recorded on May 4th, 2022]

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The three yentas get back together to gossip some more, this time with the theme of Judaism in mind! join us as we talk about L’shon Hara, Miriam, and everything in between 👀
again, Shout out to our awesome resident Gossip Expert, Abby (@aallen022)

we will be back with another series after a brief hiatus so stay tuned for information on that! as usual, check out our website and newsletter (linktr.ee/makingmensches) and email us if you have any thoughts ✨

Shout out to Nate for the podcast music and Jessie for editing the pod!

Join 3 yentas as we gab about all things gossip and spill all the tea about how gossip actually is super important! 💅
Gossip is subversive and literally builds social bonds… so in 2023 we hope you gossip way more!
Shout out to our awesome resident Gossip Expert, Abby (@aallen022)

See y’all for our next gossip session on February 22nd and sign up for our newsletter for the resources - linktr.ee/makingmenches

Shout out to Nate for our music and Jessie for editing the pod <3

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You’re going to want to listen to this episode! The last episode of our August series with the incredible @annarajagopal 🥳
Anna shares their wisdom with us about centering Palestinian voices and experiences, focusing our energy on mutual aid and local organizing, and how we can push back against zionist organizations!

If you want to reach out to Anna, you can contact them on their Instagram or Twitter!


S/o to @naebird.wav for our podcast music 🎶

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