34: Coming Out, Getting In
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Israel Story
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🗓️ 30 March 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Payam Feili is a gay Iranian poet. Nadav Schwartz is an Orthodox Israeli Jew. But in ways both astoundingly similar and utterly different, both men have journeyed out of their communities, leaving behind almost everything but their identity.
Tonight, Jews around the world will gather together at their seder tables. They will drink wine, ask questions, search for the Afikoman and recite the obligation to see themselves as if they personally had come out of Egypt. And that is, really, what the seder is all about – the telling and retelling of the greatest Jewish “coming out” story of all time. A story of venturing out into the unknown, of wandering in physical and metaphorical deserts and of seeking refuge in a new home.
The original music in this episode was composed and performed by Ari Wenig, with help from Yochai Maital. The final song, Avarnu et Par’o (‘We Overcame Pharaoh’), is by Meir Ariel.
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| 0:27.0 | Less than two minutes after I walked into Susan Silverman's Jerusalem apartment, her husband Joseph returned from the supermarket. |
| 0:31.0 | He told us he needed some help carrying in the groceries and maybe the groceries isn't the best way to describe what Joseph had brought home. |
| 0:41.0 | It was more like half the supermarket. He doesn't realize |
| 0:44.8 | that it's just one day of Hag he thinks it's the Warsaw Ghetto. Okay so what do we |
| 0:49.0 | have here? We have lots of different kinds of cheese. We have salmon. I'm making lots of like red and yellow beets and you know the fruits and veggies in Israel are so good. So we're going to have lots of that. |
| 1:02.0 | We have the traditional stuff. |
| 1:03.5 | We'll have, you know, horse radish, |
| 1:04.9 | and we'll have different kinds of things |
| 1:06.7 | for the Sator Plate, like different kinds of chorosset. |
| 1:09.4 | And... |
| 1:10.0 | So it's a vegetarian, said now. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah, so instead of the lamb shank bone, we have a beetroot. |
| 1:15.0 | And what else is here? Lots of motsa. |
| 1:21.0 | Susan's many things, a Reform rabbi, an author, an activist, a feminist, a mom, she's one of the |
| 1:30.1 | leaders of the Women of the Wall Movement and was on Juradica's 2013 list of the top 10 |
| 1:37.1 | Sexiest rabbis alive. But five days before the Passover Sedna, |
| 1:42.8 | and with a mound of groceries in her kitchen, |
| 1:46.0 | she has one thing on her mind. |
| 1:49.9 | We're gonna make salmon and we're gonna make rice and salad. |
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