The Jewish Diasporist

Jewish Day Schools Reimagined w/ Achvat Olam

Zach speaks to Leah Robbins, one of the organisers behind the Achvat Olam Community Day School, the groundbreaking project to establish the first diasporist Jewish day school in Boston. (apologies for the audio being a bit rusty - Z) Learn more about Achvat Olam [https://www.achvatolam.org/] Subscribe to our collaborative YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@HamotziNetwork] Follow us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thejewishdiasporistpod/] If you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/TheJewishDiasporist]! Big thank you to Aly Halpert [https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ilJZ0nHG41CYddwNuP3f6?si=zUPsTutESDqEiaCKdgzvRw] for continuing to allow us to use her music!

Live w/ Chaia and Rabbi Chel Mandell

Chaia of Kleztronica and Rabbi Chel Mandell of Santa Cruz CA's Tzimtzum Community [https://www.tzimtzumcommunity.com/] the first ever episode of the Jewish Diasporist recorded with a live audience. This episode was recorded live on September 15th. Chaia is an electronic composer working at the intersection of Yiddish culture and electronic club music. She weaves archival Yiddish samples with techno and ambient frameworks, creating hybrid folkloric-electronic compositions that situate ancestral sound within global and liberatory rave ecologies. We work closely to partner with radical communities like Tzimtzum and cultural activists like Chaia to create Jewish spaces like this which foster the world to come both on the earth and across cyberspace. Subscribe to our collaborative YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@HamotziNetwork] Follow us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thejewishdiasporistpod/] Check out Chaia's website [https://chaia.online/] or stream her music on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/artist/2p71wg6JQHaXYb8v9R1l6A?si=JOG_FYb3TvyhjHAE86NnTA]! If you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/TheJewishDiasporist]!

Diaspora Studies w/ Naomi Seidman

Naomi Seidman [https://www.cdts.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/naomi-seidman], Director of the University of Toronto's Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies joins us to explore the young academic discipline of Diaspora Studies, its history and contents, and its relationship to other academic fields. Subscribe to our collaborative YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@HamotziNetwork] Follow us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thejewishdiasporistpod/] If you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/TheJewishDiasporist]! Big thank you to Aly Halpert [https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ilJZ0nHG41CYddwNuP3f6?si=zUPsTutESDqEiaCKdgzvRw] for continuing to allow us to use her music!

Ashkenazi Herbal Diasporism w/ Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel

In this episode, we are joined by Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel, authors of "Ashkenazi Herbalism" and recently: "Woven Roots; Recovering the Healing Plant Traditions of Jews and their Neighbors in Eastern Europe." Their new book expands on their earlier work by foregrounding the ways plant medicine served as a medium for coexistence in a land that's often only remembered as a place of Jewish suffering. Through concrete examples, we explored the implications of diaspora for herbal and medicinal traditions. These traditions, often considered backwards and lost to history, can continue to teach us about what it means to be in right relations with all of our neighbors. Get your copy of Woven Roots from Jewitches [https://jewitches.com/collections/books/products/woven-roots-recovering-the-healing-plant-traditions-of-jews-and-their-neighbors-in-eastern-europe]! Subscribe to our collaborative YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@HamotziNetwork] Follow us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thejewishdiasporistpod/] If you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/TheJewishDiasporist]! Big thank you to Aly Halpert [https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ilJZ0nHG41CYddwNuP3f6?si=zUPsTutESDqEiaCKdgzvRw] for continuing to allow us to use her music!

The Jewish Diasporist and Tzimtzum on KSQD w/ Meilin Obinata and Rabbi Chel Mandell

Rabbi Chel Mandell of the Tzimtzum Community [https://www.tzimtzumcommunity.com/] and Jewish educator and Diasporist Podcast Co-Host, Ben Yanowitz were invited on to local Santa Cruz radio station KSQD for an Interview for “Talk of the Bay [https://open.spotify.com/show/4m6hQJCYZggMPP5ZYIm9bX?si=R5-1ehvaQxywt8juwVLSkQ],” hosted by Meilin Obinata, to explore the complexities of Jewish communal life in Santa Cruz, CA. The Jewish community in Santa Cruz is a microcosm of our diaspora at large. Change is happening and legacy communal institutions are lagging behind at best, and actively hostile at worst. Thankfully independent communities like Tzimtzum, which embody a queer diasporist Jewishness, are organizing to ground our quest for collective liberation in Jewish ritual and spirituality. Throughout the discussion we explored different religious and secular Jewish traditions which inform our understanding of the non-Zionist and diasporist Jewish future we are building, and how the pandemic and the post-10/7 Gaza genocide and international political environment have accelerated political polarization and transformed the way people engage with Judaism/Jewishness. Check out Meilin's work on KSQD here [https://ksqd.org/author/meilin/]! Learn about the Tzimtzum Community here [https://www.tzimtzumcommunity.com/]! Subscribe to our collaborative YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@HamotziNetwork] Follow us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thejewishdiasporistpod/] If you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/TheJewishDiasporist]! Big thank you to Aly Halpert [https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ilJZ0nHG41CYddwNuP3f6?si=zUPsTutESDqEiaCKdgzvRw] for continuing to allow us to use her music!