Jewish Daily Forward Podcast
Summary: The Forward’s podcasts are the "Reporters' Roundtable," a weekly conversation between Forward staff about the most pressing issues in the Jewish world, hosted by Josh Nathan-Kazis, and "Yid Lit," a biweekly series interviewing acclaimed authors of literary fiction and nonfiction, hosted by Allison Yarrow. The "Reporters’ Roundtable" discusses topics like the growing rent protests in Israel, debate over the call to promote "peoplehood" within the Jewish community and the increasingly significant and yet fraught relationship between the Jewish and Latino communities in America. "Yid Lit" has interviewed more than 30 notable authors including National Book Critics Circle Award winner Darin Strauss, New Yorker magazine “20 under 40” fiction writers Gary Shteyngart and Nicole Krauss and British writer and Orange Prize winner Linda Grant.
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Podcasts:
Nathan Guttman reports from the Republican National Convention. What is ‘dark money’ and who is handing it out. The battle for the heart of Chabad.
Paul Ryan’s plan to cut entitlements may scare off Jewish voters. Why Mel Brooks’ stereotypical Yiddish accent is dying. The many Jewish stories of Denmark.
How is Boro Park managing one year after the murder of Leiby Kletzky? Marriage culture at Yeshiva University. Natalie Portman gets hitched.
Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein talk about their new book which looks back at the Jewish life in the Ottoman port town of Salonica.
How Jewish converts changed the Vatican. Did Mitt Romney stumble or thrive in Israel? And a look inside the massive celebration of the end of the Talmud-reading cycle.
Playwright Michelanne Forster stumbled onto her family’s real-life Hollywood drama. Her grandfather directed ‘Casablanca’ and relatives hid their Jewish roots for years.
Staffers discuss the out-of-nowhere rise of Mindy Meyer to trending celebrity status and a wellspring of young Jewish conservative writers.
This week: Americans confront an Israeli report proclaiming there’s no occupation, Jewish athletes to watch in the Olympics and learning Yiddish on the farm.
Eli Valley and Paul Berger face off over Eli’s latest comic and Naomi Zeveloff reports on an anti-abortion group’s hopes to build a faux Western Wall in Wichita, Kan.
Staffers discuss why East Jerusalem is suffering from its worst-ever economic tailspin. Plus editor-in-chief Jane Eisner and Elissa Strauss talk about how women balance work and family.
Staffers discuss a pension giant’s decision to sell stock in Caterpillar, and how the issue of Israel played out in this week’s primary elections in New York.
Forward staffers discuss Americans’ reaction to Israel’s anti-immigrant crackdown, the tricky question of ‘voluntary’ poverty and new releases from Woody Allen and Lipa Schmeltzer.
This week staffers discuss why Israel should cancel Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit; Orthodox women rendered infertile because of Jewish law; a new survey of New York Jews.
Staffers discuss how Tunisian Jews are faring after the Arab Spring revolution, why Mayor Bloomberg is right to ban sugary drinks and the gruesome problems of Jewish cemeteries.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says Jews face special security risks and defends a controversial grant program in a meeting with Forward staff.
