Weird Being Jewish: Three Rabbis Walk Into a Podcast

S3E25 How High Should the Holy Days Take Us?

What should happen at the High Holy Days? What is True Teshuvah? 

S2E24 Jewish Representation: The Jalen Brunson Test

How are Jews seen? How do we see ourselves? Why do we get so excited - and should we? - when some famous person turns out to have some Jewish connection? 

S2E23 What is Jewish Masculinity?

America seems to want to talk about masculinity, and a lot of folks on the right seem to want more of it! The three rabbis jump in to ask, what exactly is masculinity, an

s2e22 Is Jewish Survival Enough?

In this episode of Weird Being Jewish, Rabbis Jeffrey Weill, Matt Reimer, and Josh Rose talk about Jewish perseverance, grit, and survival — why resilience has become suc

S2E21 Do Jewish People Do Mitzvahs for the Right Reasons?

Rabbi Jeffrey is on his annual trip to the Rabbinical Longshoremen convention in Witchita but Rabbis Josh and Matt explore the enduring question of "Why Do A Mitzvzah" an

S2E20 Is Your Rabbi Using AI? Is That Good (or Bad) for the Jews?

the three rabbis take on AI and disagree about its merits and dangers.

S2E19 Strings Attached: The Challenge of Jewish Life in This Moment

Three rabbis reunite after a hiatus with no agenda and plenty to say. They wade into the fraught waters of Israel, the war, Yom HaZikaron, and what it means to hold nuanc

S2E18 Purim & the Jewish Take on Our World of Chaos

The three rabbis are at it again, plumming the depths of Purim. This episode was recorded before the attacks on Iran, about which Rabbis Jeffrey, Matt and Josh will likel

S2E17 A Jewish Take on Anger

Rabbis Matt and Josh kick around the idea of anger - which is having its moment in the world, it seems - and what the Jewish tradition has to say about it. Rabbi Jeffrey

S2E16 Every Jew at 22? The Jewish Gun Debate

In this episode of Weird Being Jewish the three rabbis are at it again. This time, we discuss guns, gun policy, Jewish safety and Jewish culture.  Plus a question that co

S2E15 Judaism, Borders, and the Stranger

Rabbis Jeffrey, Matt and Josh confont the complexity of the Jewish tradition and the brutality of the current regime on immigration.

S2e14 Circles of Loss and Jewish Mourning

In this episode Rabbis Jeffrey, Matt, and Josh reflect together on how grief actually works: unevenly, unpredictably, and often shaped less by moral logic than by story,

S2E 13 What the Hell is Going On? (Jewish Answers Only)

The episode opens with the perennial prompt, "What the hell is going on?" and uses a small, concrete moment—an eighth-grader's intense anti-cheating check at a standardiz

S2E12 Doing Good, Feeling Joy: A Jewish Take on Happiness

What's the difference between happiness and joy—and does Judaism care? In this episode of Weird Being Jewish, Rabbis Matt Reimer, and Jeffrey Weill and Josh Rose discuss

S2E11 Do You Want Hope or Honesty from Your Rabbi?

Just before this past the High Holidays, Rabbis Matt, Jeff Weill, and Josh Rose wrestled with a blunt dilemma: when the world feels bleak, what belongs on the bimah—unvar

S2E10 Are Jewish People "A People"?

Rabbi Josh Rose and Rabbi Jeffrey Weill open with quick banter about The Clash—correcting a claim that Allen Ginsberg wrote broadly for Combat Rock (it was a spoken-word

S2E9 The "Weirdness" of Jewish Identity at This Moment

A freewheeling conversation about the weirdness of Jewish life: why Jewishness can feel both beautiful and isolating, how contemporary politics (especially around Israel)

S2E8 Which Music Brings us to God?

The three (rabbinic) musketeers talk about music, religion and whether and which music should be part of Jewish prayer.  Metal? Hip Hop? Traditional? Tune in to find out

S2E7 Do Rabbis Believe that Judaism is "True"?

It might surprise you to know that many Rabbis struggle with some of the Big Questions about the very fundamentals of Jewish religion. One of those - maybe the Biggest -

S2E6 Yom HaShoah: What Does it Mean Today?