Yardenne Greenspan is a Tel Aviv-born writer and Hebrew translator whose work appears in numerous publications and has earned notable awards. She's married to Shai Davidai (yes, that one — Activist, former Columbia professor, and Margarita's viral early guest), but she's built her own formidable kind of activism: humanizing Israelis one carefully chosen word at a time. She's the person you drift toward at every Jewish event without quite knowing why.

In this episode, Margarita and Yardenne discuss the importance of translation, the true reality of activism, and how to always take the high road.

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What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda

03:27 Growing Up Secular in Tel Aviv

07:15 Meeting Shai & Moving to America

10:30 Post-Mortems on Activism

14:00 The Twitter Fight & Refusing the Bait

19:45 Translation as a Form of Activism

26:00 Vulnerability as Strength

30:30 Raising Kids Under Attack

36:00 Translating Trauma in Kazakhstan

41:00 Message to the Jewish People

44:03 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination

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