Can We Talk?

Joan Rivers, Can We Talk? (Re-release)

Send us Fan Mail While the podcast is on hiatus, we're listening back to some of our favorite Can We Talk? episodes. This time, an episode featuring a 2006 intervie

Coming of Age with Judy Blume (Re-release)

Send us Fan Mail  While the podcast is on summer hiatus, we're listening back to some of our favorite Can We Talk? episodes. First up, an episode from 2020 called C

Bonus Episode: Camp!

Send us Fan Mail Sheket bevakasha! We're in the thick of summer, so we're talking about—what else?—camp! In this special summer episode, Nahanni, Judith, and J

Episode 144: Can We Talk? 2025-26 Season Wrap

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Can We Talk?, Jen Richler, Nahanni Rous, and Judith Rosenbaum recap the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 podcast seasons, revisiting episode

Episode 143: A Tel Aviv–Ramallah Love Story

Send us Fan Mail Sari Bashi’s memoir Upside Down Love chronicles the tumultuous early years of her relationship with Osama (a pseudonym for the man she eventually marrie

Episode 142: Antisemitism in the UK

Send us Fan Mail UK-based columnist and author Hadley Freeman joins us to discuss the wave of violent attacks on British Jews, which has spurred UK prime minister Keir S

Episode 141: The Quiet Radicalism of Judy Blume

Send us Fan Mail For generations of readers, Judy Blume's novels made growing up feel less lonely. In this episode, Judith Rosenbaum talks with Mark Oppenheimer, au

Episode 140: A Jewish Iranian Expat Watches the War Unfold

Send us Fan Mail It is a tense moment in the war between the United States and Israel, and Iran. A temporary ceasefire is set to expire, and it is unclear whether diplom

Episode 139: Inheriting Holocaust Memory

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to be a third-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors? Jen reflects on her grandparents' experiences in the Holocaust—the on

Episode 138: A New Look at RBG

Send us Fan Mail In the years since her death, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been remembered as a feminist icon and, more recently, a figure some blame for the Court's sh

Episode 137: Word of the Week: Zaftig

Send us Fan Mail The word zaftig has been used to describe everyone from 1930s burlesque dancers to Marilyn Monroe to buxom bubbies. But what does it really mean? Is it

Sparking Jewish Joy with Stephanie Butnick

Send us Fan Mail In this bonus episode of Can We Talk?, Jen Richler talks to Stephanie Butnick, founder of the Jewish lifestyle newsletter GOLDA, about sparking Jewish j

The Pilot's Pilot (Re-Release)

Send us Fan Mail To mark our 10th anniversary, we're re-releasing our pilot episode about...pilots! Elynor Rudnick and Zahara Levitov grew up on different continent

Episode 136: How Jewish Women Shaped SNL

Send us Fan Mail From "Jewess Jeans" to "Coffee Talk" to "Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy," Jewish women have left their mark on Saturday Night Live as cast members and as cha

Episode 135: LGBTQ Jews in the Federal City

Send us Fan Mail Step into the history of queer Jews in Washington, DC, as Nahanni tours the Capital Jewish Museum’s current exhibit, “LGBTJews in the Federal City” with

Episode 134: The Jewish Girl Who Joined the Islamic Revolution

Send us Fan Mail Guita Sazan grew up in a Jewish family in Tehran in the 1960s and 1970s, during the reign of the Shah. She was a teenager during the Islamic Revolution

Episode 133: An Israeli Trauma Therapist on Healing After October 7

Send us Fan Mail On October 9, 2023, two days after the Hamas attack, Israeli trauma therapist Merav Roth visited survivors of Kibbutz Be’eri in the hotel they had been

Bonus Episode: Remembering Susan Stamberg

Send us Fan Mail Public radio icon Susan Stamberg died on October 16, 2025, at the age of 87. In this special episode, we pay tribute to Susan by listening back to our 2

Episode 132: Two Years Later

Send us Fan Mail Two years after the October 7 attacks by Hamas, we speak with family members of Vivian Silver and Hayim Katsman, Israeli peace activists who were murder

Episode 131: Together in Manzanar: A Japanese Jewish American Story

Send us Fan Mail In the spring of 1942, at the height of World War II, Elaine Buchman Yoneda became the only Jewish woman on record to be imprisoned in an American conce