Ask a Jew Yael Bar tur, Chaya Leah Sufrin

Remember when OJ died?? That's what we were talking about a few days ago when we recorded this, and all was calm in the world. Coincidentaly this blissfully unaware episode is also number 100 for us! Thank you for that, Chaya Leah is petitioning to the Rabbis to make it a holiday as we speak (100 days of fasting? Need to workshop).

We did have a lovely chat with our friend Jay of the Habibi Bros about Iran, which you can find on our Instagram, @askajewpod.

Tom Aharon is an Israeli standup comedian, and co-host of Israel's top commercial daily radio morning show, New Morning.
We discuss doing stand up for IDF soliders after Oct 7, Hezbollah's VP of Global Marketing, and Natan Sharansky's underwear.
Happy Birthday Tom!

Dr. Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, former Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the Secretary of State. Naturally we talk about princess Kate. But we also cover additction to technology, the growing tensions between secular and religious Israelis, and the bad and worse options in Gaza.

In this episode we cover a failed meditation, a succesful trip to Israel (it's all fine now), and the moral confusion about rapes that aren't planned but just kind of happen. Also: a listener creates a fun game: who said it white nationalist or left wing antisemite? Check out askajew.substack.com to play! Our apologies to Princess Kate for making fun of her, clearly we recorded this hours before she shared the news of her diagnoses.

This week we welcome Jennifer Murtazashvili, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets.

We talk about an interfaith initiative she co-founded with a Muslim colleague, what it was like living as a Jewish woman in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, and the differences she notices between American and foreign college students.

Questions? Email askajewpod@gmail.com, and join the conversation on Substack: askajew.substack.com

Two hours with one of our favorite Shiksa's, Bridget Phetasy! Fair warning, this episode gets spicy so don't listen with kids or Rabbis. We cover burning topics such as polyamory, blaming weight gain on the Holocaust, and Playboy's stand on October 7.