Liad Hussein Kantorovic is an Israeli living in Berlin. A maven of kitsch, Kantorovic has a campy take on the Passover seder. Click the play button below to hear it. Tune in for more about Israelis in Berlin this Friday …
Author Archives: Shtetl on the Shortwave
Tamara Filyavich was born in the currently contested Crimea of Ukraine. Tune in to hear her story & how she navigates the tricky territory of identity. Is she Ukrainian? Jewish? Canadian?
Enough Already! Us sun-starved Montrealers aren’t taking this winter crap anymore. Tune in for ho Jewish tunes to melt the snow off all the sidewalks of the universe.
Ian Sternthal is fighting the good fight when it comes to the battle of the book. Young independent publisher, Ian Sternthal has tales to tell on Shtetl on the Shortwave.
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Tagged Ian Sternthal, Israel, Montreal, politics, publishing, Sternthal Books
How fashionable are sexual ethics and workers rights? On today’s episode we talk with Oren Safdie: son of architecht Moshe Safdie, cousin of Dov Charney, and the Montrealer who wrote Unseamly a disturbing play about the politics of sexual harassment …
WTF is going on?! Talkin’ current events: SodaStream, the quenelle, Woody Allen & Quebec’s secular charter. At the table: Fred Bohbot, Mireille Silcoff, Jess Salomon & Joseph Rosen. Live @11am 90.3fm in Mtl or podcast it later!
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Tagged anti-semitism, BDS, Dieudonne, Dylan Farrow, France, Fred Bohbot, Gaza, Israel-Palestine, Jess Salomon, Joseph Rosen, Mireille Silcoff, Scarlett Johansson, SodaStream, the quenelle, Woody Allen
A Muslims and Jewish music collab: Epichorus band members Alsarah & Rabbi Zach Fredman talk Xmas lights, Fairuz, dialogue and Hebreo-Arabic love songs. Plus the kids from Kosher Jokes for the Halaladays!
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Tagged Abdul Butt, Alsarah, comedy, Dorshei Emet, Epichorus, Jeff Schouela, Jewish, Kosher Jokes for the Halaladays, music, Muslim-Jewish dialogue, Zach Fredman
What do rabbis have to teach us about relationships and about sex? Find out how the spiritually enlightened (and ordained) “do love”.
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Tagged Love, Marylin Bronstein, Philip Belove, rabbis, Rabbis in Love, sex
Scroll down to play this week’s episode of Shtetl on the Shortwave. Disturbed by the new Gay Propoganda law in Russia? So was Montrealer Anna Goodson, so she put a call out to illustrators to design images in solidarity with LGBT rights …
Radio road trip to Berlin! Ukrainian DJs, Israeli sex workers, “degenerate” satirists, Roma art, queer bars, drag Passover seders, philosemitism, Jewish breathing lessons, memorial culture….currywurst!
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Tagged Anna Adam, Berlin, Bjoern Weigel, Diversity Destroyed, Germany, Liad Kantorowicz, Moritz Pankok, Oliver Polak, Otto Pankok, Roma, Sinti, Steven Blum, Vivian Kanner, WWII, Yuriy Gurzhy
