Bashert

Mor Ezri, a Talmud nerd and bog witch joins Bashert as our first guest co-host. We chat about Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the relationship between the two equinoxes share our favourite graveyards, and ask whether Succos or Purim is the real Jewish Halloween.Along the way we sip a cup of (lukewarm) hyssop tea, learn about the foundation stone of the Temple and trace the origins of the term scapegoat.Bashert is a monthly Jewish calendar podcast and radio show from Leeds, a UK space for anti-Zionist Jews and allies to find community.Two places to direct your tzedakah:Pafras - to find out about refugee/asylum seeker support in your area, email [email protected] Good Shepherd CollectiveShana Tova and a happy, sweet new year to you all.Tags: Jewish podcast, UK Jewish podcast, queer Jewish podcast, anti-Zionist Jews, Leeds podcast, Chapel FM, Tishrei, 5787, High Holidays, High Holy Days, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Succos, Jewish new year, Jewish holidays, Jewish calendar, Jewish months, Nissan, Queer Yeshiva, Talmud, Jewish Halloween, Purim, scapegoat, autumn equinox, eclipse, graveyards, anti-Zionism, Palestine, refugee support

DJ Chaia's music is a window into a Jewish past that was always more fluid, open and loving than we've been taught. If we could feel that freedom at any point in our history then we can feel it now. Join Bronya and DJ Chaia and bring the new year in with ecstatic dreams of Olam Haba, hear about sound archives across cultures and the horizontality of fish in this interview special recorded before DJ Chaia's deep listening event at Hope House in Leeds this June.Find out more about DJ Chaia's workhttps://chaia.online/@chaialehTopics: Jewish diaspora culture, sound archives, Palestinian Sound Archive, Sudan Cassette Archive, Koshari FM, Scots Yiddish poetry, antizionism, Olam Haba and Simchat Torah

Keziah welcomes Annie Gottfried Cohen to share her extensive research on Jewish cemetery rituals, grave measuring and connecting with ancestors through ritual practices, especially in the context of historical upheavals and modern dispersal.key topicsJewish cemetery rituals and their historyCemetery measuring and its significanceConnecting with ancestors through ritualImpact of Holocaust and dispersal on ritual practiceElul as a time for ancestral venerationRole of prayer and ritual in healing trauma

Av is here and with it Leo fiery warmt. This month Bronya and Keziah sit the sharp duality of Tisha B'Av's mourning sitting just days before Tu B'Av's love and celebration. They dig into Samantha Ellis' Chopping Onions on My Heart and Michael Wex's Born to Kvetch, alongside all things summery.Bashert is a podcast that celebrates the magic of the Jewish calendar; weaving together ritual practice, astrology of the month ahead and doikayt over a cup of tea.Submit to Bashert's basherts, or just say hi at [email protected].

Tammuz has arrived, carrying cancer season's tides, the summer solstice and the long defiant heat of midsummer. This month Bronya and Keziah discuss Dumuzid, archeological digs and Chrysanthemum competitions.We've been quiet for the last two New Moons while the cosmos got a little messy behind the scenes. To make it up to you, we're running a Lunar Release Week: this episode is live today, the second missed episode drops on the Full Moon (29 July), and we're back to our regular schedule with new content on the New Moon (12 August).Bashert is a podcast that celebrates the magic of the Jewish calendar; weaving together ritual practice, astrology of the month ahead and doikayt over a cup of tea.Submit to Bashert's basherts, or just say hi at [email protected].