GOLDA founder Stephanie Butnick and novelist Esther Chehebar are joined by guest host Mark Oppenheimer, Stephanie’s former co-host on Unorthodox and the author of Judy Blume: A Life, to break down how Jewish—or not—the mega-wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce was. Plus, Stephanie sits down with Nobody Wants This actress Jackie Tohn to discuss her new Jewish summer camp film, The Floaters.
Events:
Join GOLDA for an NYC opening weekend screening of The Floaters on Sunday, June 12 at 7 p.m. at Quad Cinema. After the screening Stephanie will be moderating a conversation with the film’s director Rachel Israel and producer Shai Korman. Get your ticketshere: https://go.shopmy.us/p-69518036 .
Esther will be part of a Hadassah virtual panel on the Sephardic and Mizrahi experience in the United States on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. Register here: https://go.shopmy.us/p-70548076
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This week’s Good for the Jews picks:
Esther: The Jewish volunteer watch group Shomrim, who jumped into action during the floods in Monmouth County.
Stephanie: Audrey Gelman’s collaboration with the Wallach Project, which preserves lost German-Jewish textile making.
Mark: Funny Business, an upcoming cultural history by Matt Singer of the Judd Apatow-era of comedy.
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Where you can find the GOLDA Girls:
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Sign up for Diana’s print newsletter, Modern Jewess, at modern-jewess.com, and buy her book, We Need to Talk About Antisemitism, at rabbidianafersko.com/books.
Get Esther’s novel Sisters of Fortune at bookshop.org/a/110357/9780593734544, and her children’s book I Share My Name, at bookshop.org/a/110357/9781532432187.
Buy Stephanie’s book, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, at bookshop.org/a/110357/9781579658939.
Buy Mark’s biography of Judy Blume at https://bookshop.org/a/110357/9780593714447
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