TREYF Podcast

For this week's short we spoke with Ariana Katz, creator of the Kaddish podcast - a new show about death, mourning, and the people who do it.

On this week’s short, we spoke with Dove Kent, outgoing director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), about the group's work, the direction they're headed, and how the organization has changed since it's founding 25 years ago.

Episode 19: The End of Leftist Jewish Publishing in Canada

On this episode, we try to crowdsource a new tagline for the podcast, kicking off the #treyftagline twitter campaign - send us your ideas! We're then joined by Hani Ghazi, organizer with Adalah NY, for a new instalment of BDS Watch Watch about NY Governor Cuomo's recent executive order to criminalize BDS. Sam introduces our first listener-submitted Shkoyach and David tries to understand a confrontation between far-right activists and Israeli tourists in the Ukraine. For the interview we're joined by Carl Rosenberg, editor of Outlook Magazine, to talk about closing the doors on Canada's last remaining leftist Jewish publication. We talk about Outlook's final issue and the legacy he hopes they leave behind.

Show Notes

News 1- BDS Watch Watch

The Electronic Intifada – NY Governor’s decree escalates Israel’s Fight Against BDS

Adalah – NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel

Salon – NY Gov. Cuomo signs ‘unconstitutional, McCarthyite’ pro-israel exec. Order punishing BDS boycott movement

Shkoyakh

Tablet – The Jews of the Canine World

Tablet – Are Jews A Dog or A Cat People?

Jewish pilgrims in Ukraine trigger brawl by shooting local with BB gun

The Interview – Carl Rosenberg

Outlook: Canada’s Progressive Jewish Magazine

The CJN – Canadian Jewish Magainze Outlook Publishes its Last Issue

Wikipedia - Canadian Jewish Congress

Recommendation

Jewschool “Jewish Fear & Anti-Semitism in Canada”

It’s our ‘Chai’ episode! We started it off by talking about Italian Eurocommunism and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). We were joined by Josh Nathan Kazis, a staff writer at the Jewish Daily Forward, to talk about a growing scandal in New York City politics, reaching from the Mayor’s office to the orthodox communities of Borough Park and Williamsburg. This episode featured a description-free Shkoyach, with discussions of kosher labelling, kosher restaurant month, and the contentious subject of raisin challah. For the interview, we talked about the recent Jews of Color National Convening with conference organizer Leo Ferguson and Montreal activist Hirut Eyob. Finally, Aviva Stahl’s recent article for Alternet’s Grayzone Project is our recommendation for the week.

*EDIT: during this week's Shkoyach segment, David convinced Sam that COR stood for 'Council of Orthodox Rabbis.' This is incorrect. It appears that COR is not an acronym at all, instead a mysterious shorthand used by the Kashruth Council of Canada to label their certified products. Please direct all questions their way.

Show Notes

News 1

Ditmas Park Corner - Yiddish-Speaking Street Gang Called ‘The Forks’ Linked To NYPD Bribery Scandal

New York Daily News - Jeremy Reichberg used cop connects to squash raps: victims

Forward -Analysis: Investigations Strain De Blasio’s Carefully Cultivated Ties to Orthodox

Daily Beast - Meet the Shomrim—the Hasidic Volunteer ‘Cops’ Who Answer to Nobody

NY Post - Orthodox Jewish leader allegedly bragged about NYPD bribes for pistol permits

Shkoyach

http://www.cjnews.com/food/may-kosher-restaurant-month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hechsher

Interview

Jews of Color National Convening - ABOUT THE CONVENING

Jewschool -Jews of Color National Convening

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

Recommendation

Aviva Stahl Website

We're back after a one month hiatus! On this week’s episode, we talked with activist and journalist Jesse Myerson about his recent exchange with the Forward’s JJ Goldberg, and the Jewish media’s coverage of Bernie Sanders. We took a new approach to describing the Shkoyach segment, Sam talked about a Chassidic gang in Borough Park, and David awarded his Shkoyach to a Montreal synagogue distancing themselves from an illegal kosher wine ring. For the interview, we were joined by Michelle Weiser from the new group If Not Now to talk about their origins, their Liberation Seder actions, and their strategy of confronting the institutional Jewish community. Finally, the deadline to submit to the new issue of Jenna Brager's Doykeit Zine is rapidly approaching - we spoke with her briefly for this week's recommendation.

Show Notes

Header

Canadian Jewish News - Rights Hearing for Jewish Hairdresser Forced Not to Work on Shabbat Delayed

Wikipedia - Shomrim

News 1 - Sanders’ Jewishness and the Jewish Press

Village Voice - The Heresy and Evangelism of Bernie Sanders

The Forward - How An Anti-Zionist Embrace of Bernie Was a Gift to Bibi and Hilary

Village Voice - Sorry Forward, You're Wrong About Bernie

Jacobin - Why We Stand with Simone

Jewish Press - Bernie Sanders is Not a Jew

The Atlantic - Remembering Liberman's Career Through Jon Stewart

Shkoyakh

Ditmas Park Corner - Yiddish-Speaking Street Gang Called ‘The Forks’ Linked To NYPD Bribery Scandal

New York Daily News - Jeremy Reichberg used cop connects to squash raps: victims

JTA - Montreal Police Seize 8000 Bottles of Illegally Imported Kosher Wine

Global News - Montreal Police Seize Thousands of Bottles of Kosher Wine from Synagogue

The Interview: Michelle Weiser from If Not Now Boston

If Not Now Website

Democracy Now - Liberation Seder Protests in NYC, Boston, Chicago, DC, and SF

The Awl - Getting Arrested at the Liberation Seder

The Forward - 17 Jewish Activists Protesting Israeli Occupation Arrested at ADL Headquarters

Recommendation

Jenna Brager Dot Com

Episode 16 - Mizrahi-Palestinian Solidarity with Sigal Samuel

...Your episode of TREYF for the 20th of Adar II 5776

On this week’s episode: we cleared the air on statements made about Jewish hockey players, condemned the Canadian Jewish News’ questionable news coverage, and talked about grogger’s (yet again). We spoke with +972 journalist Mairav Zonszein about what got lost in the conversations about Trump’s speech at the AIPAC conference. Shkoyakhs were given to BDS activists in Oshawa, Ontario, and to a robot who infiltrated an Open Hillel event. Sigal Samuel, the Forward’s Opinion Editor, joined us for the Interview. We talked about Mizrahi-Palestinian Solidarity, and the popularity of intersectionality in the North American Jewish press.  Our recommendation goes to the Independent Jewish Voices' Statement of Support for the Blacks Students Network at McGill University.

Show Notes

Introduction

The CJN- Anti-Zionist Group Protests Lectures By Far-Right UK Politician

Independent Jewish Voices- Denounces Islamophobic Event and Silence of Canadian Jewish Establishment

The Montreal Gazette - Mike Brown finds fit as 'big brother' for Canadiens

The Forward - The Strange and Violent History of the Ordinary Grogger  

News 1: AIPAC not Trump with Mairav Zonszein

972- American Jews should protest AIPAC, not Trump

The CJN- JNF Cancels Mike Huckabee's Ottawa Negev Dinner Speech

Shkoykah

JewSchool - Open Hillel: Drone by StandWithUs polices thought at Brown University [Updated]

JewSchool -StandWithUs response to Open Hillel statement on “the robot”

The CJN- Pro Israel Group Barred from "Social Justice Week" At Oshawa University

The Interview - Sigal Samuel

The Forward- The Mizrahi-Palestinian Intersectionality Nobody’s Talking About

972 -Meet the Mizrahi activists who support the Joint List

The Forward- In Jewish Color

Recommendation

Episode 15: Canada Park With Ismail Zayid

On this episode we try to explain the story of Purim, discuss our love for graggers, and successfully meet the show's JewCon requirements. We talked with Tyler Levitan from Independent Jewish Voices about the Canadian Jewish News' refusal to publish anti-Zionist perspectives, Sam tries to explain sports to David, and we issue a Shkoyach to anti-fascist activists in Montreal who shut down a Jewish Defence League event honouring a British fascist. For the interview, we're joined by retired professor and longtime activist Ismail Zayid to talk about the JNF's Canada Park and his over 40 years of work advocating for the right of return for displaced Palestinians.

Show Notes

News 1 CJN and IJV

Huffington Post - The Canadian Jewish Establishment Favours Anything But Debate

The CJN- Canada Park Wasn’t Stolen from the Palestinians

The Fifth Estate CBC “Canada Park - Park With No Peace”

CPAC- Can Israel Exist as both Jewish and Democratic?

Independent Jewish Voices - Expose the Jewish National Fund (JNF)

Haaretz - How Canada's Last Jewish Newspaper Came Back From the Brink

Email Tyler Levitan at: [email protected]

Independent Jewish Voices Is Here to Help

Treyf Podcast Episode 9 - Half Chai and the Fight for 15

Shkoykah 1

Journal de Montreal - Réunion anti-islam annulée à Montréal

Independent Jewish Voices Denounces Islamophobic Event and Silence of Canadian Jewish Establishment

Shkoykah 2:

Journal de Montreal - La fin de Therrien?

The CJN - CHAT Grad Zach Hyman Making Plays with the Leafs

The Interview with Ismail Zayid

ISMAIL ZAYID

Ismail Zayid Wordpress

Recommendation

Uncovering “Canada Park” National Tour With Heidar Abu Ghosh

Episode 14: Resisting Pinkwashing with Dean Spade

This episode includes references to hair gel, 1990s hair flips, and the difference between Adar I and Adar II. We brought back the BDS Watch Watch segment to discuss reverse BDS in the US and Canada, the campaign for BDS at McGill, and recent fear mongering at York University. We return to Illinois to address yet another instance of menorah vandalism, and gave a Shkoyach to sweet potatoes. For the Interview, we spoke with activist and academic Dean Spade about backlash that he received after the Creating Change conference, and what it means to talk about anti-semitism from an anti-zionist perspective.

**We recorded this episode before the BDS motion (that passed the General Assembly at McGill University) was nullified by an online ratification vote. See the McGill Daily’s “BDS Motion Nullified in Online Ratification” and the CBC’s “McGill University BDS movement vows to continue”. Organizers are currently challenging this outcome (due to widespread online campaigning by Zionist groups, in violation of university regulation) so the story is still ongoing.

ShowNotes

Introduction

Hair Flip, and Dippity Do hair gel

Adar I and Adar II

News 1- BDS Watch Watch

The CJN - OBAMA SIGNS BILL OPPOSING BDS, WON’T APPLY TO SETTLEMENTS

The Nation -  Is New York State About to Create a Blacklist of BDS Supporters?

Mondoweiss - In Canada, BDS loses in the House of Commons but wins on university campuses

McGill Daily - McGill undergraduates vote to support BDS movement

Buzzfeed - The Canadian Parliament Overwhelmingly Voted To Condemn Boycotts Of Israel

Electronic Intifada - Israel “quietly” pushed for anti-BDS legislation in US, UK

Electronic Intifada- Canadian students reject Justin Trudeau’s attack on Palestine activism, free speech

Ynet - Israel prepares to fight boycott activists online

The CJN - BDS MOTION FAILS AT MCGILL AFTER ONLINE VOTE

Facebook-- BDS McGill Action Network

Montreal Gazette - BDS vote stirs up hostilities on McGill campus

Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies

CBC Radio - Pro-Palestinian mural causes deep divisions at York University

The Forward - Is Toronto's York U. Too Anti-Israel for Jewish Students?  

Shkoyach

The News Gazette - UI athlete charged with felony over menorah damage

The News Gazette - Police: Accused vandal wanted menorah as gift

The News Gazette - Repair, replacement ahead for menorah at Illini Chabad Uncle Moishy - Pizza Song Bulbes (Potatoes) Interview with Dean Spade 

Episode 13 - Mizrahi-Washing, & Dave Zirin Returns!

It's Treyf’s bar mitzvah episode! On this special occasion, we reminisced about our 13th birthdays and the process of getting older as a podcast. We called Ilan Benattar from Jews for Racial and Economic Justice’s Mizrahi caucus to talk about a Tablet Magazine article and the concept of Mizrahi-washing. After some technical issues the first time around, Dave Zirin joined us for the interview, discussing Zionism and Palestine solidarity activism in the NBA. And finally, our recommendation went to the recent New York Times parody issue distributed by JVP/Jews Say No, and we spoke to Beth Miller about the project.

Show Notes

News - Ilan Benattar and Tablet Magazine

Tablet Magazine - An Intersectional Failure

JIMENA - Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa

JFREJ- Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

Tikkun Daily - For many Jews, anti-Arab racism hits home Shkoyakh

My Zaidy’s Pizza- Thornhill

Pizza Pita- Montreal

The CJN - Rekindling the Light of Jewish Social Justice The Interview - Dave Zirin 

Tablet Magazine - Identity Politics on the Court

The Nation - Two Roads: The Politics of David Blatt and the Passion of Steve Kerr’s Father

Rod Carew Time Magazine Cover

Edge of Sports

Recommendation

JVP Press release (includes archives of Twitter account, website, and the pdf of the paper itself)

Democracy Now - Jewish Peace Groups Reveal Role in Spoof New York Times That Criticized Paper's Stance on Israel

Episode 12 - #CancelPinkwashing and the Intersectionality Boogieman

On this episode: we addressed the deluge of #intersectionality related articles in the Jewish press, and spoke with Liza Behrendt of Jewish Voice for Peace about the Cancel Pinkwashing mobilization that took place at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference in Chicago. Our (newly appointed) New York media correspondent Jonathan Katz discussed the place of Tablet Magazine in the Jewish mediascape, and for those keeping track, we re-introduced the anti-shkoyach.

Introduction Jewschool - Intersectionality and the Fight Against BDS Washington Post - Why Bernie Sanders doesn’t participate in organized religion

News - Tablet Tablet - How Intersectionality Makes You Stupid JTA - Adapting to the Recession: Nextbook Flavors of Diaspora Twitter - Jonathan Katz

Shkoyach Wikipedia- Chabad/Lubavitch The CJN - Waterloo Students Vote No To Boycott of Israeli Universities UW Imprint - UW Students Say No to Academic Boycott of Israel The CJN - Bronfman Pulls Support from York Over Mural  Interview Haaretz - Shutting Down a Pinkwashing Event is a Smart, Legitimate Protest Against Israel’s Occupation Jewish Voice for Peace - Boston

11 - Mizrahi Resistance to Anti-Arab Racism 

On this episode: We spoke with Keren Soffer Sharon about her work at Jews for Racial & Economic Justice [JFREJ], where she has been building the organization’s first Mizrahi Caucus. In our newest BDS Watch Watch segment, we talked about the Institutional Jewish community’s awkward attempts to talk “intersectionality” as a means of countering the growing BDS movement in North America. Lastly, Shkoyachs were given to Jewish Voice for Peace’s anti-islamophobia Chanukah actions, and the two activists/academics who took the Toronto Star to task for questionable historical fluff pieces.