Who The Folk?! Podcast Jewfolk, Inc.

This week I talk to Abby Gore, the director of youth and young adult engagement at Mount Zion Temple. We talk about what brought her to St. Paul, why working in the youth engagement space is appealing, and how she came to be the student speaker at her recent graduation from Hebrew Union College, on this week’s Who The Folk?! Podcast.


Read Abby's Speech! https://huc.edu/wp-content/uploads/Abby-Gore-Graduation-Student-Perspective_ADA.pdf

This week I talk to Rabbi Samantha Thal, the new associate rabbi at Bet Shalom Congregation. We talk about what was appealing about coming to Bet Shalom, the roots of her Jewish community leadership, and what she’s looking forward to as she starts her first post-ordination pulpit, on this week’s Who The Folk?! Podcast.

This week I talk to Hunter Wengersky, the J-Pride program coordinator at Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Minneapolis. We talk about the upcoming Pride weekend and what J-Pride has in store for the festival, how the presence at Pride has evolved, and how their diverse background works well in creating programming opportunities, on this week’s Who The Folk?! Podcast.

Links to stuff we discussed:
https://jfcsmpls.org/j-pride-celebrates-pride-month/
Yiddish book club: https://qlibrary.org/event/queer-jewish-folklore-book-club/ 
TC Pride Shabbat: https://jfcsmpls.org/event/twin-cities-pride-shabbat-2/
TC Pride Parade: https://jfcsmpls.org/event/twin-cities-pride-parade/
GALA: https://galachoruses.org/festival-2024/

This week I talk to Stacey Dinner-Levin about her role in the upcoming Minnesota Mammalehs: Stories From the Tribe event on June 24. We talk about what it’s like to perform in a storytelling event, how the theater is central to her family, and that one time she wrote a play, on this week’s Who The Folk?! Podcast.

Buy tickets now: http://bit.ly/mammalehs

This week I talk to recently retired State Representative Frank Hornstein. We reflect on his 22 years in the state legislature, his love for transportation policy, and what he’s looking forward to next, on this week’s Who The Folk?! Podcast.

After the end credits, you can listen to Frank’s retirement speech from the floor of the House on May 20, with thanks to Barry LaGrave and Mike Cook from the Minnesota House of Representatives Public Information Services. Or you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge9jrmDoUfQ

Sponsors this week:
Hodroff-Epstein: https://hodroffepsteinmemorialchapels.com/

MN Mammalehs Stories from the Tribe: http://bit.ly/mammalehs

We have a special edition of this week’s show: This week I talk to Haviv Rettig-Gur, who will be the featured speaker at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas annual event on June 2.

Haviv Rettig Gur is a veteran Israeli journalist who serves as senior analyst for The Times of Israel and is also a frequent guest on the Call Me Back and The Times of Israel podcasts. He has covered Israel’s politics and foreign policy since 2005, reported from over 20 countries, served as director of communications for the Jewish Agency for Israel, Israel’s largest NGO, and taught at prestigious premilitary academies. We’ll have the links to Haviv’s work and how to get tickets to the JCRC’s event in the show notes.

Haviv and I talk about what he’s observing in the state of mind of Israelis, how politicians in Israel and the United States are getting plenty wrong in the war, and the misconceptions many have about the war – and Israeli-Palestinian relations – on this week’s Who the Folk?! Podcast.

JCRC Annual Event: https://minndakjcrc.org/event/2024-annual-event/

Haviv on Twitter: https://x.com/havivrettiggur

https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/haviv-gur/