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Undoing Indoctrination: A Conversation About "Israelism" with Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen
Erin Axelman is a queer Jewish filmmaker, based out of Somerville, MA. Israelism is their directorial debut. Erin and Sam Eilertsen founded Tikkun Olam Productions, a nonprofit filmmaking collective that focuses on...
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Decolonizing Spirituality: Jewish & Muslim Alliance with Ala' Khan
Ala’ Khan is a storyteller and filmmaker focused on community based storytelling - uplifting the authentic and diverse stories of BIPOC communities. Faith and spirituality are what ground Ala’ and motivate her work...
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Dancing Between the Polarities with Nadia Irshaid Gilbert
Nadia Irshaid Gilbert is a Palestinian-American artist working at the intersection of spirit, culinary production, experience design and filmmaking. Her multidisciplinary work invites us to dive deep, transform our...
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Shel Maala: An Anti-Zionist Queer Yeshiva with Binya KĂłatz & Rabbi Xava De Cordova
Binya KĂłatz is a talmud teacher and standup comedian, trying to be radical and funny wherever she goes. She helped start Shel Maala, an online Queer anti-zionist Yeshiva, and has performed and taught in cities across...
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Two Mystic Sisters Discuss the Spiritual Path with Maria Amiouni
Maria Amiouni is a spiritual coach, human design reader & published poet. She’s been devoted to the spiritual path for the past 10 years as it’s led her to remember who she is & why she is here. Her purpose is...
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Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth with Asaf Elia-Shalev
Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli-American journalist with Mizrahi roots. Based in Los-Angeles, he works as an investigative reporter for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He was the historian behind the 2022 re-release of...
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Ancestral Healing & Spiritual Leadership in A Time of Genocide with Daniel Foor
Daniel Foor is a doctor of psychology, experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He's an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and...
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"I Am What Was Taken From Me": Unlearning Colonization and Embodying Resistance with Ariella AĂŻsha Azoulay
This episode was recorded on March 23, 2023 and is in collaboration with Jewish Ancestral Healing and the Sarah & Hajar Series.
Ariella AĂŻsha Azoulay is an author, curator of anti-colonial archives, film essayist,...
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Mapping the Moment: Getting Unstuck on Jewishness, Zionism, and Trauma with Daniel Maté
Daniel Maté is an award-winning composer, lyricist, and playwright for musical theatre with an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from...
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Three Worlds: The Personal, Political, and Historical Narratives of Arab Jews with Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and...
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Unraveling Multiple Identities: Experiences Jewish & Kurdish People Share With Dalia Omar Zada
Dalia Omar Zada is a first-generation Kurd from Efrin (Kurdistan) and was raised in San Diego (Kumeyaay Land). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Social Justice for Education researching how counternarratives work to...
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Transmuting Fear Through Friendship with Diana Jarrar
Diana is the founder of MAGICDATES, a better-for-you snack company that uses dates as a symbol of cultural connection. Our vision is to share about our rich MENA culture, it's food, people, and wisdom....
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