SHTETL ON THE SHORTWAVE
Riff Cohen, Anita Doron & Leah R. Vineberg
(Please scroll down to the player below to listen to this podcast). Three women, three different arts. Anita is a filmmaker and Ted Fellow born in Transcarpathia, but she now calls Canada home. She is the director of The Lesser Blessed- a new drama set in a Native community in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Riff sings in French, Hebrew & Arabic. Catch up with her from a café à Paris. We’ll play a bunch of tracks off her new album. And Leah is a multidisciplinary artist and the director of The Marathon of Accommodation - a performance happening this Friday in Montreal featuring 3 women and all the ways they transform/conform/deform to accommodate the men in their lives. Fun! If you like women and art….hey, this is your show!
Music by Riff Cohen, How Lovely to Be a Women by Ann-Margret, I Feel Pretty from West Side Story and Shake Yer Dix by Peaches.
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Writer & activist Jay Michaelson talks about the erotic economy of religious life, about LBGT activism, and B.D.S: yay or nay? And, rediscover a very old and very juicy Yiddish novel by Joseph Opatoshu.
Short story magician Etgar Keret talks politics, dog shit & more. And Eloge Butera talks about witnessing the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in Montreal.
Jewrhythmics, Araora, Basya Schechter, Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers, Rotfront, Sway Machinery, OPA!, Watcha Clan, Regina Spektor, Leo Fuld, Gypsophilia. If it’s Jewish and it’s music, it might be on this show.
CowJews and Indians; How Hitler Scared My Parents and I Woke Up in an Iroquois Longhouse- Owing the Mohawks Rent. Plus, Corinna Rose is live in studio with banjos, autoharps and a whole new album!
Amal Elsana Alh’jooj is a Bedouin/Palestinian Israeli and Nobel Prize nominee. She is an activist for women’s rights, Bedouin rights and peace. She will be live in the CKUT studio tomorrow on Shtetl.
Goldwater is as powerful as she is controversial. Her Yiddish is kick-ass! Plus she’s French Quebec television’s Jewish anglo answer to Judge Judy. Her connection to her Jewish-ness and to Quebec are complex. Tune in to Shtetl on CKUT today at 11AM to meet the lawyer behind Lola vs Eric.
You heard her on late-night radio giving frank sex and relationship advice. This week you can hear legendary Dr. Ruth Westheimer live on Shtetl. And, sex-educator Cory Silverberg talks about sex and disability. Nu? Let’s talk about sex!
This epsiode of Shtetl is all about great music with Yemen Blues singer Ravid Kahalani, and also a closer look at Idle No More with poet-activist Sandy Sjollema.
You may be asking yourself, “What is kosher gospel?” Tune in to hear Shtetl’s live interview with the man who originated this form of Jewish musical expression, African-American cantor Joshua Nelson.
