From the controversy of her colorful videos to why she’s learning Talmud every day, to her connection to Judaism – despite self-proclaimed atheism, to her dramatic eye makeup, Miriam Anzovin brings her authentic self to the table. Shoshanna and Anne speak with her about sudden fame, why she isn’t chucking profanity any time soon, and how TikTok is the least of our worries.
Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” is a profound treatment of both the Holocaust itself and the experience of the “second-generation.” It also, apparently, is a risky, corrupting influence – in Tennessee, at least. You likely have heard about school board’s decision — Anne and Shoshanna discuss how it reflects the misguided culture of censorship and the dramatic need for Holocaust education.
The Chaim Walder affair is off the front page, but still reverberating in the Orthodox world. One strong response is a Haredi campaign to make it known that speaking up to reveal abuse or decry it is not Lashon Hara. Shoshanna and Anne refocus the conversation on the victims of abuse, and how the Orthodox world and its leaders must be sensitive to them, before all else.
“What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?!” In Hebrew, this famous rhetorical question is captured by a famous comment by Rashi: What does Shemitah have to do with Mount Sinai?! Anne and Shoshanna explore parallel, and yet fully disconnected, challenging halakhic topics, while Shoshanna hunts for vegetables.
Shoshanna and Anne critique the disturbingly popular marriage ploy of the “Surrendered Wife” (or “Kesher Wife,” for the Jewish version) in which a woman relinquishes her interests, preferences, opinions, and identity in favor of those of the man she married.
