How to Be a Jew … Among Friends

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In today’s hyper-paced, screen-driven world, making—and keeping—new friends has become incredibly challenging. Same goes for nurturing long-lasting friendships. So, what’s a Jew to do? Journalist, author, and unofficial friendship correspondent Anna Goldfarb joins us to talk about modern friendship, a topic she delves into in her book, Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections. During our conversation, we look at how we can keep the friends we want, and successfully build new relationships. Hosted by Courtney Hazlett, Rabbi Diana Fersko, and Josh Kross, each episode of How to Be a Jew takes a look at a current, cultural topic and what it means for us as Jews, and how we react to it because we are Jews. Want to send us an email? Send it off to [email protected] For more podcasts, visit tabletmag.com/podcasts

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1:11.4	and I am joined by the much smarter and Jewisher than me because she's a rabbi, Rabbi Diana Furstco.
1:18.3	Did you know rabbis love compliments? Thank you. Really, I'd never heard that. Do you like being
1:22.5	called Jewisher? Yes, I do. I compliment. Terrific. And of course, as ever, producer Josh Cross is with us.
1:29.9	Did you know that producers like compliments too?
1:34.1	We all like compliments. In fact, I think complimenting one another is what part of being a good friend is, which is why we are here today what we're talking about.
1:46.4	Rabbi, do you have a lot of friends? Of course. You know a lot of people. Do you have a lot of friends? Absolutely. I'm obsessed
1:52.7	with my friends. They're my team. I pick up friends. I keep them forever. I love them. I call them. I
1:59.3	text them. I think about them. You do pick up
2:01.9	friends. Absolutely. That's how we became friends, I think. We kind of like mutually picked each other up.
2:07.6	But yeah, I think you're very good at picking up friends. I mean, I love people. You really love
2:12.8	people. People need to know how much you love people. And I feel that's part of what makes you a rabbi.
2:17.2	I think I think I on the loving people scale, like I just, you're a high watermark. Let's put it that way. Yeah, I'm obsessed with people. I love young people. I love children. I love older people. I love people that agree with me. I love people that disagree with me. Like, I love Orthodox people. I love
2:35.2	secular people. Like, I am a people groupie. Yes. Yeah. I aspire to be as such. You know, I have a core
2:42.8	group of friends, but I often think sometimes that I don't have enough friends or maybe I don't,
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