Each month on 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. Alternating between a documentary style and a roundtable format, Can We Talk? includes profiles of historical and contemporary Jewish women, frank discussion of culture, politics, and current events, and little-known stories from our past and present. Contact us at podcasts@jwa.org. Tell us what you think of the podcast! Take our survey at https://jwa.org/podcastsurvey.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 14 hours 47 minutes
Episode 83: Fighting for Israel's "Chained Women"
In this episode of Can We Talk?, Jen talks to Kylie Eisman-Lifschitz, board chair of Mavoi Satum, about how her organization helps women in Israel whose husbands refuse to grant them a divorce.
Episode 82: When Jewish Women Talked to the Dead
In this episode of Can We Talk?, Jen Richler speaks with scholar Sam Glauber-Zimra about Jews and spiritualism. They talk about why communicating with the dead had such appeal for Jews in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and why Jewish women were prominent as mediums.
Episode 81: Linke Fligl Ends With Love
In this episode of Can We Talk?, we walk the land at Linke Fligl, a queer Jewish chicken farm and cultural organizing project in New York's Hudson Valley.
Bonus Episode: A Bintel Brief: For Richer or Poorer
While we're hard at work preparing for Can We Talk's fall season, enjoy this episode of A Bintel Brief, an advice show with a Jewish twist, from our friends at The Forward.
Can We Talk? 2021-22 Season Wrap
In this wrap episode, Nahanni Rous, Jen Richler, and Judith Rosenbaum recap the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Seasons of Can We Talk?
Episode 80: Toxic Hookup Culture in Jewish Youth Groups and Summer Camps
In this episode of Can We Talk?, Jen Richler talks with Dahlia Soussan, Ellanora Lerner, and Madeline Canfield, three of the founders of Jewish Teens for Empowered Consent, a group that is calling out what they say is a "toxic hookup culture" in Jewish summer camps and youth movements.
Episode 79: Word of the Week: Eshet Chayil
In the final installment of our Word of the Week series, we talk with Rena Nickerson, Miriam Anzovin and Rachel Stomel about the meaning of Eshet Chayil today and their memories of singing it growing up.
Episode 78: Word of the Week: Gaslighting
In the second of our Word of the Week mini-series, we talk about the word "gaslighting"—where it came from and how it's used now—with linguist Rachel Steindel Burdin and psychotherapist Robin Stern. Comedian Judy Gold and TikTok star Miriam Anzovin also offer their takes on the word.
Episode 77: Word of the Week: Yenta
In the first of our new Word of the Week mini-series, we trace the evolution of the word yenta with Fiddler on the Roof scholar Jan Lisa Huttner, comedian Judy Gold, author Lizzie Skurnick, and TikTok star and Torah commentator Miriam Anzovin.
Episode 76: Message From Ukraine
In this episode of Can We Talk?, Nahanni Rous talks to Vlada Nedak, Executive Director of Project Kesher Ukraine, about her experiences of the war and about how it has affected the women in Project Kesher's network.