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The Seattle Limmudcast
by The Seattle Limmudcast
Limmud Seattle is a festival of Jewish culture, creativity, and learning where people of all levels of knowledge and participation can learn and share ideas. The podcast features intimate interviews with its presenters.
Episodes
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Avi Rosenfeld -- Finding Jewish Identity in Joy and Listening
Avi Rosenfeld tells us about his Jewish journey beginning with a childhood in a family of “Western wandering Jews” raised secularly, to becoming an Orthodox rabbi and hospice chaplain. He grew up in several places in the Western United States inspired in his Jewish identity by his grandparents…
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Alicia Jo Rabins -- Building a Personal Bridge to the Torah with Modern Midrash
Alicia Jo Rabins talks about her curriculum "Girls in Trouble", which centers around stories of female characters from the bible, as well as songs that she has written about them. Alicia Jo talks about the choice of the word “Trouble” and how as a girl growing up in a predominantly Christian...
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Jessica Ost -- Teens Establishing a Future of Giving
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenter Jessica Ost introduces the program she runs at the Stroum JCC: Giving Initiative For Teens (GIFT). It is a Jewish teen philanthropy project where the teens act as a micro-foundation and focus on specific funding priorities. The teens make a call for proposals, hear...
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Anat Ben Shaul -- Preserving the Past with Creative Writing
Anat Ben Shaul discusses how the passing of her aunt Mazal inspired her to begin on a novel about the Yemeni Jewish community and their immigration to Israel. To write the novel she had to research the history of her community. She obtained historical resources from the JDC, read through hundreds...
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Marianne Tatom -- Teaching a Living Yiddish
Marianne Tatom talks about her origin story in Yiddish, when she met her partner’s aunt who did not speak English, which led her to study and later teach Yiddish. She discusses her training at the Yiddish Book Center as a “Yiddish Pedagogy Fellow” and its new textbook “In Eynem.” She goes on to...
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Esther Kustanowitz -- Star Wars and Judaism
Esther Kustanowitz discusses her love of Star Wars and how she finds similarities between Star Wars and Judaism. Growing up “Conservadox” and going to Jewish day school gave Esther an appreciation of Jewish tradition and text study, while at the same time allowing her to develop a deep love of...
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Natan Meir: Marginalized People in Eastern European Jewry of the Modern Period
Limmud Seattle 2020 presenter Natan Meir discusses how marginalized Jews were viewed and treated in Jewish communities in Eastern Europe in the modern period. Natan starts off by talking about how modernity is defined and how Jewish history classes in college sparked his fascination with the Jews...
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David Singer -- Connecting through Jewish Learning
David Singer discusses how his Jewish journey brought him to the role of National Director of Limmud North America (Limmud NA), and how his passion for building Jewish community inspires him to grow Limmud NA into a movement. From his childhood experience of acting in plays about biblical events...
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Al Maimon -- Discoveries from a 115 Year Old Siddur
Limmud Seattle 2018 and 2019 presenter Al Maimon discusses the siddur: Avodat Hashana, Kehilat Yaackov, published in Belgrade in 1904. By studying the prayers and texts, as well as the essays included, the siddur sheds light on the culture and attitudes of the time. The inclusion of a prayer to…
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Kayla Higgins and David Warnock -- Law and Order: Ancient and Modern
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenters Kayla Higgins and David Warnock discuss how their decision to lead a session on their respective professions (law and policing) inspired them to delve deeper into the Jewish traditions around both. They found many differences between the modern secular court system...
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Pamela Brown Lavitt -- Collecting Jewish Women's Stories
Limmud Seattle 2018 presenter Pamela Brown Lavitt discusses how her journey to discovering her Jewish identity led her to learn Yiddish, collect stories as a folklorist in the Chasidic community, and ultimately serve as an oral historian for the Jewish Women’s Archive. She tells about the process...
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Gilah Kletenik And Samuel Klein -- Rembrandt, Menashe ben Israel, and Spinoza
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenters Gilah Kletenik and Samuel Klein discuss Rembrandt, Menashe ben Israel, and Spinoza, three great minds who coexisted in old Amsterdam. While detailing what made each of them unique, they also discuss ways they overlapped in the vibrant intellectual community of the...
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Tony Ramsey -- Living your Values through Voluntary Simplicity
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenter Tony Ramsey discusses voluntary simplicity, and how realizing what brings you joy in life can allow you to get rid of things and situations that are weighing you down. He points out that by valuing your time, it frees you up to pursue passions instead of…
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Rochelle Wynne -- Writing an Ethical Will
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenter Rochelle Wynne discusses the ethical will, a letter written to your children and grandchildren to be read after your death about the values you hold dear. She discusses growing up in a household where talk of death was taboo, and how, in her thirties, her...
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Paula Rose -- Engaging Kids' Curiosity at Seder
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenter Paula Rose urges us to think about what we want the guests at our Seder, and specifically the children, to come away with. She suggests adding points of surprise, curiosity, and engagement. Examples include adding a new tradition, a change in location, or saying “Ma...
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Shimon Emlen -- Matzah: Bread of Faith, Bread of Healing
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenter Shimon Emlen talks all about matzah. From the basics, including the difference between hand-made shmura matzah and store bought box matzahs, to how the matzahs are made, and the spiritual significance of matzah. He also goes into detail about how he runs a model…
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Linda-Jo Greenberg -- Tips for an Easier Passover
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenter Linda-Jo Greenberg talks about how her lifelong love of Passover on the one hand, and lists on the other, led her to create a booklet, and teach a Limmud session, about how to make Passover prep “easier.” Her tips include: making a calendar of tasks, taking…
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Cara Abrams-Simonton and Robert Hovden -- Enabling Connections
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenters and co-chairs Cara Abrams-Simonton and Robert Hovden talk about how they first encountered Limmud and eventually decided to co-chair a festival. While co-chairing had its challenges, Cara and Robert speak of the joy of connecting with volunteers and participants, as...
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Joshua Horowitz -- Researching and Playing Historical Music
Limmud Seattle 2018 presenter Joshua Horowitz talks about how a resurgence of antisemitism that he observed while studying music in Austria in the 1980s led him to research and start playing historical Jewish music. He speaks about how his quest led him to searching out village musicians in…
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Miriam Libicki -- Engaging in Jewish Identity through Comix
Limmud Seattle 2018 presenter Miriam Libicki talks about her process for creating autobiographical and non-fiction comics. She discusses how her comics have led to meaningful connections and served as a therapeutic outlet. She also talks about her use of childlike faces to make hard subjects more...
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Colin Marshall -- Spinoza's Divine Joy of Knowledge
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenter Colin Marshall discusses the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. A 17th century philosopher who was born and raised Jewish, Spinoza was exiled from his community in Amsterdam for his radical ideas questioning organized religion. Colin discusses Spinoza's views of G-d,...
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Limmudcast Pilot Episode - Karen Trieger -- Writing a Holocaust Memoir
Limmud Seattle 2019 presenter Karen Treiger discusses the writing process for her book "My Soul is filled with Joy: a Holocaust Story." She talks about wanting to write the story about her in-laws Sam and Esther Goldberg for a long time then finally quitting her job and devoting three years to...
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Limmud Seattle is a festival of Jewish culture, creativity, and learning where people of all levels of knowledge and participation can learn and share ideas. The podcast features intimate interviews with its presenters.
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