Will the Real Maccabees Please Stand Up?

The Agunah Crisis

Shoshana Keats Jaskoll, "5 Steps to Save Jewish Marriage" https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/5-steps-to-save-jewish-marriage/ On Flatbush Girl's Mitzvah Strike: https://www.thecut.com/article/why-ultra-orthodox-wives-went-on-sex-strike.html Music by Nehedar (www.nehedar.com)

What's going on on campus?

On Alex Edelman's hilarious show: https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/11/17/alex-edelman-comedian-antisemitism/ https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/93430680 On the legal status of free speech at private universities: https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/private-universities On the Steven Salaita settlement: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/11/a-six-figure-settlement-on-campus-free-speech/415680/ The Chicago Principles (2014): https://freeexpression.uchicago.edu/ On using Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to fight campus antisemitism: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/opinion/trumps-executive-order-has-firm-legal-grounding.html https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/trump-era-antisemitism-policy-expected-fuel-flood-student-lawsuits-uni-rcna123668 https://open.spotify.com/episode/6EZo3I5tVrjRnQAv7nRBXn?si=f056682178de4ade&nd=1&dlsi=24bc8ddd5ec0431e On Devorah's great-grandfather, Victor Kramer, and President Lowelle of Harvard University: https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/354611/a-harvard-presidents-pogrom-warning/ Music by Nehedar (www.nehedar.com)

On Abortion, Halachah, and the Freedom to Choose

The Good Place, S2 E6 “The Trolley Problem” “The Woman Who Fought the Texas Abortion Ban.” The Daily. Dec. 14, 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/podcasts/the-daily/texas-abortion-ban.html [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/podcasts/the-daily/texas-abortion-ban.html]? “‘I’ll lose my family,’ A husband’s dread during an abortion ordeal in Oklahoma.” NPR. May 1, 2023 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/01/1172973274/oklahoma-abortion-ban-exception-life-of-mother-molar-pregnancy [https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/01/1172973274/oklahoma-abortion-ban-exception-life-of-mother-molar-pregnancy] “Abortion/Dina Shalev on Family Planning.” The Joy of Text: Where Real Sex Meets Jewish Law. July 22, 2021 https://thejoyoftext.libsyn.com/halacha-and-abortion-dina-shalev-on-family-planning [https://thejoyoftext.libsyn.com/halacha-and-abortion-dina-shalev-on-family-planning] Devorah Backman. “I’m an Orthodox Jewish Mom and I’m Unequivocally Pro-Choice.” Kveller. June 30, 2022 https://www.kveller.com/im-an-orthodox-jewish-mom-and-im-unequivocally-pro-choice/ [https://www.kveller.com/im-an-orthodox-jewish-mom-and-im-unequivocally-pro-choice/] Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt. “‘My Dark Secret’: Orthodox Women Reveal Their Abortion Stories.” Forward. Aug. 1, 2018. https://forward.com/life/406674/orthodox-jewish-women-abortion-stories/?amp=1 [https://forward.com/life/406674/orthodox-jewish-women-abortion-stories/?amp=1] “Pro life, pro choice, or something else entirely: The Torah’s view on abortion.” Real Women, Real Torah. July 2021.  https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dawhj6Vae9laTsIckphsU?si=gM1jnHgUQdCQbazq7WpRoA [https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dawhj6Vae9laTsIckphsU?si=gM1jnHgUQdCQbazq7WpRoA] “Abortion in Jewish Law, and Roe v. Wade in Jewish Public Discourse (110).” Orthodox Conundrum. May 2022. https://open.spotify.com/episode/73vDwfvvtlaLR4d5TSVSKN?si=z1J9Ckl3S2iPb8VNEp6fwA [https://open.spotify.com/episode/73vDwfvvtlaLR4d5TSVSKN?si=z1J9Ckl3S2iPb8VNEp6fwA] “Abortion Not in the Abstract: Orthodox Women Share Their Stories (119).” Orthodox Conundrum. July 2022.  https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZJtk5kTQJ9I5LlXJHCwdu?si=964mRe6cTgWGrrcRGkHczQ [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZJtk5kTQJ9I5LlXJHCwdu?si=964mRe6cTgWGrrcRGkHczQ] Rav J. David Bleich. “Why Reversal of Roe v. Wade is Welcome.” Torah Musings. May 12, 2022. https://www.torahmusings.com/2022/05/why-reversal-of-roe-v-wade-is-welcome/?fbclid=IwAR0PWXs6VvxsgyUBFrNeZpAm64LC9v7hHKsGn-sQwXcrIqDsH5Py7pp9O6g [https://www.torahmusings.com/2022/05/why-reversal-of-roe-v-wade-is-welcome/?fbclid=IwAR0PWXs6VvxsgyUBFrNeZpAm64LC9v7hHKsGn-sQwXcrIqDsH5Py7pp9O6g] “Interviews: Abortion and Jewish Law: An Interview with Rabbi Moshe Tendler.” The Jewish Review. Vol. 2, Issue 5. (June, 1989 | Sivan, 5749) https://thejewishreview.org/articles/?id=175 [https://thejewishreview.org/articles/?id=175] Music by Nehedar (www.nehedar.com)

The Nittel Nacht Episode

You can listen to this instead of learning Torah! Author of the tweet about rising antisemitism: https://howardlovy.com/ The Fettmilch Uprising of 1614 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettmilch_uprising "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin https://open.spotify.com/track/2Y1kYq20gDsF0GpLABc9UP?si=ue_QShMXTF24u61WdqIb6w&nd=1&dlsi=f06e72bf3f02425d Ben Platt, "It's Hard to Speak My Heart," Parade https://open.spotify.com/track/780T4fp2M9t3mHq7eCa9W5?si=299fwxQSQumXaNGihczMDA&nd=1&dlsi=c71b79490bf04024 Louis C.K., "Christian" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX7o1OZytKI Alex Edelman and Ira Glass, "Jews for Jesus, for Just One Day," This American Life https://www.thisamericanlife.org/787/babys-first-christmas/act-tw Samaritans Project, Center for Israel Studies, Yeshiva University https://www.yu.edu/cis/samaritans-project The Mandalorian, S1 E1 Music by Nehedar (www.nehedar.com)

Will the Real Maccabees Please Stand Up?

New Hanukkah music by the Maccabeats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAmdS9AnUts and by the Y-Studs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSj9pOUJ6tI "The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah" by Michael David Lukas https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/opinion/sunday/the-hypocrisy-of-hanukkah.html People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn https://www.darahorn.com/ Jewish Emancipation by David Sorkin https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691164946/jewish-emancipation Music by Nehedar www.nehedar.com