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From the creator of the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter project Girls in Trouble, a memoir following her journey from a secular Jewish childhood to becoming a modern queer woman owning ancient teachings and finding her own meanings in them, refracted through feminist interpretations...

Tim Franks spent years as the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. During that time, he was attacked as a self-hating Jew and as an Islamophobe – as a tool of competing, malign agendas. He always tried to respond with a journalist’s detached curiosity, drawing a clear line between his identity and his work. Up to the point that he asked himself: is that necessary? Beyond the judgments of others: what does it mean to be Jewish?

Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. But despite these arguments' significance to American politics, American Jewish life, and to Israel itself, no one has ever systematically examined their history and explained why they matter. In We Are Not One, historian Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins.

There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism.

Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the minds and culture of these Holocaust "revisionists." In the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened.

We Were There Too is a digital heritage project aiming to record and preserve the impact, experience and contribution of Britain's Jewish communities during the First World War era. Tune in to our monthly podcast to hear stories from our collection - from heroic airmen to nursing on the Home Front.Transcripts of each episode can be found in the Media Centre on our website. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Bible is filled with stories of people who walked away from face-to-face encounters with Jesus thinking he was a total jerk. This book explores the premise that if Jesus were to return today as he did two thousand years ago, he (or she!) would meet the same fate. That is, his own people would fail to recognize who he is, they would argue with him incessantly, and seek to have him destroyed. Written by a seasoned atheist turned Christian, this book seeks to help non-Christians have a better understanding of Christianity, including why we don't always do as we should.

Shall We Have Another? After having one child or more, most couples are able to consider having another. Life-changing decisions like these should be educated and well-informed ones. It is no secret that Jewish tradition encourages a Jew to continue having children if they are able. Shall We Have Another? endeavors to explain the Torah’s position on the subject and address the various challenges associated with it.

In Why We Remain Jews, Dr. Vladimir Tsesis describes the path he traversed from religious ignorance to strong belief in the Jewish religion. Tsesis assigns a special place to the proof of his conclusion that religion and science - especially in light of recent discoveries - are not antagonists but are in fact in complete harmony, supplementing and not excluding each other.

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados.

This is Leon Malmed's true story of his and his sister Rachel's escape from the Holocaust in Occupied France. When their father and mother were arrested in 1942, their French neighbors agreed to watch their children until they returned. Leon's parents were taken first to Drancy, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and they never returned.

We Share The Same Sky is an intimate portrait of family history that tells the stories of two young women—Hana as a refugee who remains one step ahead of the Nazis at every turn, and Rachael, her granddaughter, on a search to retrace her grandmother’s history. Presented by USC Shoah Foundation, this seven-part narrative series explores how the retelling of family stories becomes history itself and how acts of kindness during war can echo across generations.

In each episode of Can We Talk?, the Jewish Women’s Archive features stories and conversations about Jewish women and the issues that shape our public and private lives. Visit us at jwa.org.

Welcome to the Jewish Disability Services Together We Make An Impact Podcast with your hosts Adam Roth and Rose Greenblatt. The goal of this podcast is to expose and explore real issues facing the disabled community. During each episode Adam and Rose will connect our listeners with experts in the field, from academia to lived experiences, to shed light on our topic, while exploring meaningful disability resources from local professionals. Meet your Cohosts: Adam Roth M.B.A. M.Ed. (he/him) is currently the Director, Special Needs at the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey. Adam is a former...

Everyone has a story worth hearing! Everyone has something that makes them, them! Tune in to hear the unique stories of the everyday people around you! Dedicated in loving memory of Susan Colbert.

What do you get when a professional matchmaker and a therapist sit down in front of a microphone??You get unfiltered, raw conversations about what every Jewish adult (and honestly every single adult no matter your spiritual/religious background is invited) needs to know about communication, dating, commitment, love, sex, breakups, divorce and more.Matchmaker Chava Shaulov and Jason Wasser, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist explore conversations through their unique lens of years of professional experience and moving through the difficult chapters in their own lives.Some episodes will ...

Eliezer Jones and Solly Hess spreading the joy of life, Judaism, and.....what else is there?

God is not boring. He is not dull, dry, nor bland. Yet many have failed to see this. What if the scriptures reveal a God who thinks and acts outside of the box? What if the God of the Bible does things that are odd to our finite human minds? This book explores the lesser known aspects of God's character that might offend your intellect while intriguing your spirit. Be invited to go on this journey of discovering The Wild, Weird and Wonderful Ways of Yahweh.

According to Jewish tradition, the world around us is filled with demons, ghosts, giants and angels, and creatures of all types. But Judaism today tends to downplay and rationalize them away, to the point where they’re just forgotten dusty metaphors. But for millenia, Jews have lived with these creatures and have had practical means for coping with them. Join Jack Zaientz a scholar of all things Jewish folklore and mythology and John Baltisberger, the award-winning author of Jewish horror and fantasy as they explore the topics of mythic Judaism and discuss it's survival and use in ...