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The world needs to stop talking about Jews and the only way that will happen is if Barak Obama and Jennifer Aniston have a baby.
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Also:
* Chaya Leah makes a stunning confession
* Purim Hangover
* Covid anniversary
* Hasidic fashion and the horrors of Brandy Melville
* The strange life of supermodels
* Save us, Barak Obama and Jennifer Aniston!
* Shitty Columbia students
* You donât hate the universities enough
* Not all slopes are slippery
* CL book recommendation: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
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You demanded, we supplied! This week we are honored to have Prof. Russ Roberts join us on Ask A Jew. Russ is the host of the wildly successful podcast EconTalk (where he talks about everything from tariffs to the Opera), president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Heâs also the author of many books, including How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness , and the economics-based novel, The Price of Everything. It is only natural that this internationally renowned economist and influential podcaster sit down with us to explain, like, what is economics anyway.
We discuss tariffs, AI, Jerusalem, incentives, empathy, and prayer, among other things. We also dive into whether or not being a Jew and a Zionist makes sense from an economics stand point, and which careers we should all invest in when the robots come for our jobs.
Make sure to check out âEconTalk: Conversations for the curiousâ wherever you get your podcasts, follow Russ right here on Substack Russ Roberts, and take a sneak peak at his new book currently titled The Agnostics Guide to Jewish Prayer.
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Whoâs this, disprespecting us on our podcast?? Itâs our very own rare earth mineral, The Free Press columnist and host of the wonderful Breaking History podcast, Eli Lake! Did he even say thank you once? I donât know. Probably at the end. Does it even matter? We hope you enjoy the episode. If you didnât, itâs because Chaya Leah didnât bring her translator.
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Hereâs what we cover:
· Yael learns something astonishing about how Chaya Leah views Volodymyr Zelenskyy and J.D Vance
· Youâre not a Russian agent, youâre just stupid.
· Trump is playing 4D Uno
· This wouldnât have happened under King David
· Eating s**t is the bed rock of diplomacy
· The axis of idiocy - people who love Gaza and Putin
· A digression into terrorist rectums
· Go prove you donât have a sister
· Ugh, have you even heard of traveling medicine shows?
· Truth is for losers
· Plato Vs. the Torah
· What to tell an ugly bride?
· A great story whose details Yael canât remember
· How antisemitic does someone have to be for you to cut them off?
· The Oscars pissed us off, even though they havenât started yet
· A ray of stupid sunshine
· Letâs dig into Meir Kahane because none of this has upset people enough
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Look. The words are done. They have just run out. So we filled the void with various mouth noises, about everything from the orthodox child labor, Meir Kahane, the Grand Canyon and Apple Cider Vinegar. Listen, some weeks are so icky, itâs ok to order a 7-11 Big Gulp on Uber Eats in the middle of a recording. Or is it? Anyway, please excuse our mess, but you get it, right?
* The story of Ariel Bibasâs best friend from kindergarten
* The new Hollyowod Jews who are punching back. Donât you just love to see it?
* Friend of the pod talking Kahane with Israelis
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This week we welcome our pals and confidants, Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy, co-hosts of Feminine Chaos!
Kat is a novelist, culture writer, and frequent contributor to the Free Press, where you should read whatever she writes, no matter the topic.
Phoebe is the opinion editor of the Canadian Jewish News, contributor to The Globe and Mail, author of the book The Perils of âPrivilegeâ and a Canadian-American patriot.
We talk Kosher Superbowl halftime shows, beauty and aging, The Golden Girls, and more! Donât forget to check out Feminine Chaos on Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts.
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Links:
A very Kosher halftime show
Katâs piece in the Free Press about Men and pregnancy loss
Golden year: What I learned watching The Golden Girls for the first time in 2024
Some Jewish unaothorized covers of Austalian hits from the 80s
Bonus: The piece Kat was working on when we recorded about the show Apple Cider Vinegar, titled âWhy Women Fall for Wellness B******tâ. Have you watched it? Discuss! I ended up binging it over the weekend and thought it was great. The trailer doesnât do it justice in my opinion.
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Happy Valentines Day! Thatâs a Jewish holiday right? Well, weâre celebrating Rebbe Saint Valentine anyway.
In this festive episode we get all googly-eyed over our guest Aleeza Ben Shalom, a matchmaker and relationship coach who you all know from Netflixâs âJewish Matchmakingâ, and author of the new book Matchmaker Matchmaker: Find Me a Love That Lasts, which you should buy at least 2 copies of.
We dive into Aleeza's advice to "date âem til you hate âem", untangle love and values, and hear why Chaya Leahâs grandfather (who was himself a matchmkaer) would force men to stare into the mirror as they described their ideal girl.
The interview with Aleeza starts around 41 minutes in, but first, you have to sit through our thoughts on Trumpâs plan for Gaza, travel tips for Somaliland, and a pitch for a new reality show to find the next palestinian leader.
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Also:
* Gaz-a-Lago
* Somaliland and Puntland, see you at the beach!
* Some TV recommendations, old and new
* Who is Ian Sommerholder?
* Love doesnât care about your feelings
* Down with Disney!
* Indepndence is overrated
* The Jewish ick
* Unrealistic expectations, and Chaya Leahâs grandfatherâs advice for men (Iâm not a pimp, Iâm a shadchan!)
* Skip the dinner date
Check out Jewish Matchmaking on Netflix, and follow Aleeza on Youtube and Instagram, Did you know wâere on Instagram too? Sometimes we forget. But check us out.
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We totally thought Richard Hanania was a Jew, and by the time we found out heâs Palestinian (gasp!) it was too late to cancel. Just kidding, we loved talking to Richard about everything from the online right-wing âtrollosphereâ, antisemitism (which he gets his fair share of), Twitter politics, elite human capital, disappearing pronoun bios, and in general why everything is just more stupid now.
Follow Richard on X/Twitter , check out the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, and subscrie to his Substack here.
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We sit down to recap the events of the week, which feels like a decade.
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Also:
* Chaya Leah wants to deport Yael
* The hostage releases are so emotional. And that emotion is rage.
* Where do they keep the laminating machines in Gaza?
* Let the sunshine in
* Is Elon Musk a Nazi? And do we prefer quality or quantity in our antisemites
* Advice to secret Nazis: play it smooth.
* Jeremy Corbynâs cat goes to hell
* Inauguration nation
* Leave it to the president of Ireland to make a holocaust memorial antisemitisc
* January 6 hostages? Dude. dude.
* Equal opportunity haters
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That feeling you have in the pit of your stomach? Weâre all there. A mix of hope, fear, anger and grief. An American friend asked me if Iâm happy about the hostage deal, and it was hard to use that word in this context. Though I support the deal (like most Israelis) and believe it is the moral choice, it makes me sick to my stomach that we even had to negotiate with these b******s, not to mention give them anything that doesnât drop from the wing of an F-15. More about that, and our listener Zoom in a minute. In the meantime, we present you this rare, early-release, joy-to-the-ears kvetch fest with two of our favorite ladies and co-hosts of Normally, Mary Katharine Ham and Karol Markowicz. You may know these ladies from either of their frequent apperances on Fox News, CNN, the NY Post, and any other place where people pay them to say what they think about things. They each also have two great podcasts of their own, The Karol Markowicz show (thatâs, uh, Karolâs) and Getting Hammered.
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The next few weeks will be rough
As of today, 33 hostages are set to be released in the phase of the deal, with each day bringing new challenges and mind-f***s from the enemy. There are total of 98 hostages in Gaza, aged 2 to 86, and there is no guarantee that we will ever move into the 2nd or 3rd phases of the deal that are meant to bring them all home.
To clarify how evil Hamas is (in case you donât get it in our podcast, we can be a little subtle sometimes), they are set to release the first group of hostages in about 12 hours, and they still havenât told us who they are. Nor have they told us who is alive. For example, you all may have heard about little Kfir Bibas, who just celebrated his 2nd birthday as a hostage. He was kidnapped at the age of 6 months, and he and his brother Ariel (5) and mother are expected to return in this phase of the deal. We donât know if these babies will return home in their motherâs arms or in body bags.
As many have said before me including head of the Shin Bet, the deal isnât good - but itâs the right deal. I donât think we could live with ourselves if we didnât push for it, not just for our 98 brothers and sisters, but for our sense of solidarity and responsibility to one another. Every Israeli feels like they have been missing a limb for the last 15 months, and we need to be able to be whole again to move on. This may sound sentimental, and not like the tough, calculated soldiers that people expect us to be. But in a sense, the reason people put on a uniform to begin with and run into the line of fire is to save strangers and protect families, and who would we be if we didnât do that now?
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Listener Zoom
Another weepy Zoom coming your way! Please join us Monday at 9pm EST for a much-needed group therapy session. Will you learn anything? Maybe, I donât know. If you want to learn ask Dan Senor for a Zoom. Will you share all the feels and laughs with friends and strangers and leave feeling uplifted? 100%. Will send a separate email with details so watch this space.
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Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, host of the FDD Morning Brief, and formerly a terror finance analyst for the US Treasury. Thereâs a lot to talk about this week, especially the hostages, an upcoming ceasefire deal that brings up all kinds of feelings, and of course - Houthi dance moves. Follow Jonathan on X and donât forget to check out the Morning Brief wherever you get your podcasts.
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If youâre feeling anxious about a potential hostage deal, thatâs probably the right reaction. As I write this, it seems like a hostage deal will be signed in the coming hours, with the first phase being the gradual release of 33 hostages - whose condition is unclear. We the public (and probably others close to the negotiation table too) have no idea who is dead and who is alive, how long this will take (looks like weeks at the least), whether or not it will even happen, and of course what the outcome will be. Itâs like diffusing a bomb over the course of several weeks, every wrong move can create an explosion. There are more unkowns than knowns, and iâve even gone back to edit this last paragraph in the last few minutes based on new information. We will cry tears of happiness for every life that can be pulled out of that hellhole, and tears of heartbreak for every one left behind. Anyway, to quote my friend Lishay Lavi, whose husband and father of her 2 young daughters is a hostage and is not on the first phase list: âThere is no euphoria or celebration here. We fight till the very last hostage is home.â I may write a longer post about this later.
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This week we welcome on of our favorite podcast hosts and top 5 favorite lesbians, non-Jew Katie Herzog! Katie is the co-host of the wonderful Blocked and Reported podcast about internet drama with Jesse Singal, which makes her a victim of antisemitism by association.
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We discuss:
* Wigs
* Head nipples
* Whatâs the difference between Seattle and Portland
* Hurricane Helene
* America needs a good enemy
* New Yearâs Resolutions
* Meditation changed my life or whatever
* Katie Arafat
* Katie is a Bird Flu prepper
* Jews and dogs - a mismatch made in heaven
* Podcast couples therapy
* Donât buy the merch
* Do Jews surf?
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We still have a few copies of the Queers 4 Palestine calendar left! Order now.
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What do you people call it? 2025? Anyway, we hope itâs awesome! Is your new yearâs resolution to listen more of the Jewish weave, covering everything from Hanukkah to TJ MAxx? If so, youâre in for a treat.
Also:
* Our sufganiyot (seasonal donuts) game-plan
* Being Jewish out loud
* Are celebrities allowed to be jewish?
* A 2nd Hanukkah without the hostages
* The bombshell Assad divorce
* We are the lovechilds Marie Kondo and a Tazmanian Devil
* Weâll also introduce a new segment: The Jewish draft! Whoâs in and whoâs out this week? Listen to find out. Or you could also scroll below to see the photo. By the way heâs been posting one for every night, hasnât hit a Jewish person in his quotes just yet, but itâs night 7 so figners crossed!
Also, hereâs a video of a lovely celebration on 5th avenue, complete with irrate commuters and confused tourists. Jewish Joy in your face, itâs the NYC way!
Have you ordered your copy of the Queers 4 Palestine calendar yet? If not, take your time, iâve been doing the fulfillment and already have spent more than the doctorâs recommended time in the post office. But also hurry up because we have a limited supply! Special thanks to the wonderful Nika Scothorne for the design.
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Brendan OâNeill is the chief political writer for Spiked and host of The Brendan OâNeill Show podcast. He writes for numerous publications, including the Daily Mail, the Spectator, the New York Post and The Australian. His latest book is After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation (Spiked, 2024) which you should all buy immediately.
Brendan attempts to explain to us what the HELL is wrong with Ireland, why he as a non-Jew had such a strong reaction to October 7 (heâs against it, just to be clear) and why the right wing variety of antisemitism is giving the left a run for itâs money.
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Merry Christmas to all our non-Jewish listeners! Youâre our favorites. We hope you enjoy the day in your matching pajamas eating chestnuts and riding reindeer or whatever it is you do. We respect your tradition, though we donât quite understand it. I think it has something to do with a Palestinian refugee fleeing Israeli tanks 2,000+ years ago and giving birth to Jesus at a checkpoint. Hereâs an AI generated image of Jews celebrating Christmas. 8/10.
Itâs also the time of year when we love to resurface one of our favorite episodes: âAll I want for Christmas is Jewsâ. In this episode Rabbi David Komerofsky âJewsplainsâ how the best Christmas songs were written by Jews, and tells a beautiful story of immigration, fantasy, and the American Dream.
We also have playlist of the best songs written by Jews, so enjoy!
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This week we welcome Judy Gold, comedian, writer, actor and author of "Yes, I can say that! When they come for the comedians we're all I trouble".
We go everywhere in this one - feminism, lesbians Israel, comedy, cat calling - you name it, we laugh about it. Don't listen if you have kids in the car (unless your kids are cool)
Follow Judy on Instagram, check out her website, and catch her performing comedy live weekly She also hosts the podcast âItâs Judyâs Showâ, but she hasnât invited us on so donât listen.
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Jonathan Elkhoury is just your typical Lebanese, Israeli, Christian, Gay Zionist.
Born in Lebanon, Jonathan fled the country at the age of 8 with his family when Hezbollah took over their village. Since his father was in the South Lebanese Army and worked closely with the IDF, the family (along with about 6,000 other SLA members and their families) were offered refuge in Israel, where they have been living since.
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The girls share everything they know about Syria (not much), argue passionately about faith in the Messiah vs. faith in the Iron Dome, and try to determine who is the better Jew (the answer may suprise you!)
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Chaya Leah heeds the activists' advice and goes back to Poland. Also: Trumps hottest cabinet picks, our *least* favorite type of antisemites, and a wholesome dip into Mormon Twitter. Don't forget to RSVP for our Hanukkah party, Dec 12 in NYC! Details on Askajew.substack.com. Happy Thanksgiving!
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The Perelmuters in Poland
Hanukkah party details
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Today we welcome Zibby Owens, bestselling author, CEO, bookstore owner , âbook-fluencerâ, and host of the widely succesful âMoms Donât Have Time to Read Booksâ podcast. Most recently she published âOn Being Jewish Nowâ, a collection of essays on Jewish identities in a post-October 7th world.
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Some rational and irrational responses to the election that are sure to equally offend all the listeners, plus movies, planes, the orthodox draft in Israel, and more. This is probably the only podcast where a passionate argument about skincare will lead to a passionate argument about a hostage deal.
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Looking for a non-election podcast? How about 75 minutes of soothing soviet antisemitism? We got you. Our guest today is Izabella Tabarovsky, a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary antisemitism. We discuss how everything old is new again, why being a self-hating Jewish celebrity is sooooo 1970s, and what you can do today to de-program your brain from stale propaganda.
You should read pretty much everything Izabella has ever written: start here.
The Z3 institute for Jewish Priorities (thereâs a conference you can go to in the Bay Area!)
18 brave Georgian Jews in 1969
We should all be Refusenicks
Wikipedia is Disinformation with a hard D
No, it really sucks
Club Z so you can raise non-self hating kids
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