Just For This Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch

Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment. 
This week’s guest is Rachael Fried, Executive Director of Jewish Queer Youth (JQY). JQY supports and empowers LGBTQ Jewish youth with a special focus on teens and young adults from Orthodox, Chassidic, and Sephardi/Mizrahi communities. JQY fights to ensure the emotional and physical health and safety of this population.
We speak about mental health, LGBTQ+ pride and advocacy, and the value of cohort-based leadership experiences.
View the transcript here.
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Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment. 
This week’s guest is Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh, Vice President for Jewish Engagement and Director of the Miller Intro to Judaism Program at American Jewish University.
We speak about welcoming and inclusion within the Jewish community and beyond. We reflect on trailblazing as a leader, and modeling for future generations.
View the transcript here. 
We’re off next week for Memorial Day - catch our next episode on June 3.
If you’re enjoying Just For This, be sure to rate and review us wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Follow Just For This on instagram: @justforthispodcast
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Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment. 
This week’s guest is Rabbi Elka Abrahamson, president of the world-renowned Jewish leadership incubator, the Wexner Foundation.
We speak about strategic vision, leadership, and pluralism in the Jewish world, especially during this current moment. We reflect on the advances made to make the Jewish world more equitable and inclusive, and the work still left for us to do.
View the transcript here.  
If you’re enjoying Just For This, be sure to rate and review us wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Follow Just For This on instagram: @justforthispodcast
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Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment. 
This week’s guest is award-winning author Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (she/her), whose books includes On Repentance and Repair and Nurture the Wow. She writes regularly at lifeisasacredtext.com. 
We speak accountability, justice, abortion access, and collective power.
You can read more about Rabbi Ruttenberg’s just for this moment in the recent coverage of investigations of gender-based misconduct at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University.
We also discuss the Jewish values underpinning an abortion access case before the Supreme Court, Idaho v. United States. 
View the transcript here. 
If you’re enjoying Just For This, be sure to rate and review us wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Follow Just For This on instagram: @justforthispodcast
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Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment. 
This week’s guest is Daphne Lazar-Price, Executive Director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA). Listen and learn more!
View the transcript here. 
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Welcome back to Just For This, a new podcast. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment. 
This week’s guest is Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Founder and CEO of Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action.
At the intersection of Passover and Earth Day, we ask agitational questions about why Judaism and environmentalism are connected and what it means to say, ‘I’ve had enough!’ – it’s time to act for our planet. We also reflect on roadblocks facing women leading Jewish organizations and what it means to lead a broad, climate-focused campaign in this current moment.
As a note, due to our Passover celebrations and festival days this week, we’ll release next week’s episode on Wednesday instead of Monday. Chag Sameach, happy Passover - next year, may we all be free. 
View the transcript here. 
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